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Second-year students in the Laser and Photonics Technology program at Central Carolina Community College's Harnett Main Campus attended the 2019 SPIE Photonics West Convention in San Francisco. Pictured are, left to right: Ian Washburn, Gary Beasley (Lead Instructor), Brandon Pasley, Cameron Wiedholz, Jamie Turner, Kilvet Zalavarria, and Robert Strickland.

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Second-year students in the Laser and Photonics Technology program at Central Carolina Community College's Harnett Main Campus toured the LLNL NIF Facility in California. Pictured are, left to right: Chrysanthos Panayiotou (LASER-TEC Principal Investigator), Robert Strickland, Ian Washburn, Cameron Wiedholz, Jamie Turner, Brandon Pasley, Gary Beasley (lead instructor), Al Delong (2015 CCCC Laser Graduate with LLNL, who help lead the tour), Kilvet Zalavarria, and Brian Olejniczak (LLNL Laser Systems Engineering & Operations Director).