Daniel Spicer, an SPIE member who attended the Student Leadership Workshop at SPIE Optics+Photonics last month, is the Norwich Bulletin’s Newsmaker of the Day.
Spicer, a student at Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut, joined about 100 other SPIE Student Chapter leaders from 18 states and countries, including Poland, China, India, and South Africa at the workshop.
Spicer told the newspaper that the optics and photonics conference in San Diego inspired him to continue his education in fiber and laser optics and electrical engineering.
“He’s considering the University of Central Florida and the University of Arizona, and looking for a job that will help pay for school. He said a lot of people are intimidated by jobs in the optics and engineering fields, but they shouldn’t be.”
Spicer said a career in science is scary to some people because “It’s a lot of math and a lot of science. But once you get past all that, it’s different,” he told the newspaper.
