Pearl John - Educator

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		Holography Workshops

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		Holography and Photography in School

Holography Classes:

Full-time Laser Technology Instructor 1998 - 2003 -
Columbia Area Career Center, Columbia, Missouri, USA.

The Columbia Area Career Center runs the world’s first Photonics Program at High School level. The 3-year program teaches students basic skills needed towards training to become a laser technician. Pearl John has helped develop the curriculum of all three classes within the Photonics Program. The year long "Introduction to Laser technology" course is aimed at 16-year-olds and includes; basic and advanced holography, laser light sculpture, manufacturing with lasers, telecommunications, medical applications with lasers and laser light shows.

Pearl John and Photonics Instructor, Richard Shanks with students, 2001.

Introduction to Laser Technology Class 3R, 2001.

Student Crystal Couey making a hologram, 2001.

Bob Young, making a hologram, 2000.

Rusty Terwelp with ANGEL, 4” x 5” stained glass with white light transmission hologram, 2002.

Crystal Couey with single beam reflection hologram, 2000.

CRUCIFIX, 2.5” x 2.5” reflection hologram by student, Chaz Guidry , 2002

MEDAL, 2.5” x 2.5” Reflection hologram by student, Naomi Tesfamikael, 2002.

Light Sculpture - Light Bridge Images, 2000.

Building the Light Bridge, 2001.

Saturday Science

The students in the Laser Technology program help with various outreach projects, one of them, Saturday Science, helps local 14 year-old students make 100 holograms over the space of 3 Saturdays. This project is aimed at encouraging more girls and students from minority backgrounds into the field of optics and science.

9th grade Saturday Science participant with her hologram, 2002.

Pearl John with students viewing their holograms at the end of Saturday Science, 2003.

Participants learn about spectroscopy and diffraction duringSaturday Science, 2003.

Papers:

Making Holograms – An Educational CD-ROM by Pearl John and Elaine Poché

Advanced Holography in High School by Pearl John

Photonics Classes in High School by Pearl John and Richard Shanks

Making Holograms, Uniting Art and Science by Pearl John

Laser Safety in the High School Classroom by Pearl John and Richard Shanks, Meadow Woodbury, Kennie Canole & Renée Holtzhauser.

Words and images in time and space: An exploration of the
use of text in fine-art holography, by Pearl John.

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