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- Education Outreach
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- Local Section
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- Students
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Technical Groups
- Bio-Medical Optics
- Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation
- Information Acquisition, Processing and Display
- Optical Interaction Science
- Photonics and Opto-Electronics
- Vision and Color
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District Visits/Facility Tours
Optica members can invite their US representatives or senators to visit their companies facilities or university laboratory. As a resource, the National Photonics Initiative, of which Optica is a cofounding sponsor, has a helpful district visits toolkit.
Members of Congress typically work in their district office during Congressional District Work Periods, such as the summer district work period during the month of August. View the 2024 Congressional Calendar here. When the House and Senate are "in session", those are the dates they will be in Washington, D.C.
If you have questions about district visit or facility/laboratory tour, please contact Optica's Global Policy & Affairs team at publicaffairs@optica.org.
Photo Above: In April 2022, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) toured PFG Precision Optics in Ocean Springs, MS. Read the NPI News Release. (Pictured: Travis Green, PFG Precision Optics President, Senator Roger Wicker, and Gayle Wicker).