Student chapters
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Student Chapters
Your new favorite way to connect with your peers.
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Start a chapter
Access additional benefits to advance your career
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Manage your chapter
Keep your roster and chapter information up-to-date
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Chapter benefits
From grants to traveling lecturers, your chapter can receive some incredible benefits
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- Volunteer
- Optica on Ukraine
- Awards & Honors
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Early Career Professionals
- Education Outreach
- Global Policy & Affairs
- Local Section
- Virtual Engagement
- 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
- Quantum
- Sensing
- Vision and Color
- Technical Group Leadership Volunteers
- Technical Group Webinars
- Technical Group Search
- Technical Group Prizes
- Volunteer
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Benefits
Participating in a student chapter helps you develop technical knowledge, leadership experience and lasting relationships with peers and mentors.
Discover opportunities![Start a Chapter](https://optica-org-web-afd-f9abf4byhbacgfgk.z02.azurefd.net/optica/media/optica/getinvolved/students%20and%20ecs/start_a_chapter.png?t=637672241811068960)
Start a Chapter
On-demand training programs, internships and job opportunities at your fingertips.
Learn more and apply![Manage a Chapter](https://optica-org-web-afd-f9abf4byhbacgfgk.z02.azurefd.net/optica/media/optica/getinvolved/students%20and%20ecs/manage_a_chapter.png?t=637672241549175524)
Manage a Chapter
Optica and the Optica Foundation recognize student excellence through competitions, travel grants and other programs.
Make the most of the experience![Chapter Toolkit](https://optica-org-web-afd-f9abf4byhbacgfgk.z02.azurefd.net/optica/media/optica/getinvolved/students%20and%20ecs/chapter_toolkit.png?t=637672241428255312)
Chapter Toolkit
Access updated, Optica-branded materials like zoom backgrounds, templates for social media posts, officer certificates and more.
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