{"id":148428,"date":"2025-07-31T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=148428"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:21:10","slug":"summer-camp-hosts-high-school-students-from-across-the-world-to-learn-about-photonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/summer-camp-hosts-high-school-students-from-across-the-world-to-learn-about-photonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Camp Hosts High School Students from Across the World to Learn About Photonics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt basically keeps our world running.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the understanding 11th grader Micah Terry now has about photonics after spending a week at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics<\/a>\u2019 Laser and Photonics Summer Camp. The Orlando Science High School student learned how to solder, constructed a pinhole camera, built a homemade telescope and brainstormed some ideas for his future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely considering photonics as a career,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Terry was one of about 50 high school students from across Central Florida \u2013 and the world \u2013 who will return to their classrooms with a new understanding of the science of light and as an advocate for Florida\u2019s only bachelor\u2019s degree in photonic science and engineering.<\/p>\n