THINK Together provides after school learning centers for under-represented K-12 children in Central Orange County.  The OISC is providing materials for 2 -  two week "Science of Color" programs that will reach ~1500 children in December 2003 and April 2004. 

Center for Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT) at Irvine Valley College provides training for the local optics manufacturing industry.  The OISC is working with CACT to to reach out to the optics community and provide the requested training.

OSA Rochester Section, Center for Optics Manufacturing & Institute of Optics, University of Rochester and the   has provided the OISC with the "Optics Suitcase" and the opportunity to use it and promote it to others.  This has become part of the foundation for the OISC.

Optical Society of San Diego is a local OSA section and is working with the OISC to enhance their K-12 outreach efforts.  The OSSD will have an Education Theme meeting in Feb. 2004 at the Fleet Science Center, organized by the OISC. 

Optical Society of Southern California is another local OSA section working with the OISC to enhance their K-12 outreach efforts.    The OSSC will have an Education Theme meeting at the Discovery Science Center, organized by the OISC.  (Date TBD.)

IEEE - Laser Electro Optics Society - Los Angeles Chapter has been recently reactivated with the help of the OISC.   The OISC is helping the LEOS chapter by joining some efforts with the OSSC.  A joint meeting has been arranged  between the local LEOS and OSSC at USC - Jan 2004.  Also, the OSSC, OISC & LEOS LA will jointly participate in the UCLA Sally Ride Science Festival on Nov. 2, 2003.

Optical Society of America, particularly their Membership & Education Committee, has been  very supportive in many ways.  In additional to their initial letter of support, the OSA has supplied funds for this web site and a travel grant to the OSA Annual Meeting & the ETOP Conference.  They also encouraged the OISC's active participation in these two events.

SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering particularly their Membership & Education Committee, has been  very supportive in many ways.  In additional to their initial letter of support, they have provided a grant to Irvine Valley College for K-12 Educational Outreach, which the OISC has participated.  The OISC prepared and delivered the UCI GSA Astronomy program with this support. 

The City of Irvine is providing exhibit & demonstration space in their City Hall for the OISC's "Speed of Light" exhibit.  Local students and teachers will be invited to this exhibit and will be able to participate in a 40 minute Hands-On  Optics presentation based on the Optics Suitcase.  The exhibit will also be open to the general public.

Irvine Valley College's Laser Electro-Optics Technology Program has been both a birthplace for the OISC (along with the OSSC) and a benefactor.  This semester's enrollment in the program is up substantially, in part due to the efforts of the OISC.

The Discovery Science Center has invited the OISC to use its facility for its Advisory Board meetings and to help with its exhibits, demonstrations and educational outreach efforts to both students and the general public.

Wasatch Photonics has donated over 40 pounds of 'holographic' toys to be used by the OISC as gifts to students during OISC outreach programs.

General Atomics Sciences Education Foundation has provided the material for the "Color My World" program that the OISC is providing to THINK Together.  This may also be provided to the Discovery Science Center for programs in 2004.

UC Irvine's Gifted Students Academy provided the OISC's first opportunity to deliver an optics based astronomy program to students.  This was delivered to ~50 students over 4 weeks in the summer of 2003.

Optical Sciences Center & Department of Physics, University of Arizona have provided encouragement, direction and the use of educational materials from the earliest days before the OISC was established.   OISC Director Donn Silberman is a graduate of the UofA Engineering Physics Department and was the President of the Society of Physics Students there from 1981 to 1983 and served as an Associate Councilor for SPS Region 11 from 1983 to 1984.

Kodak Optical Products, is providing plastics lenses for students as part of our outreach programs.  Their first use will be in the THINK Together Color My World program to enable the students to see the "colored dots in print media" that make up the pictures and graphics.

LabSphere, has joined the OISC as a Company Member through our membership drive.

Ana Maria & Donn Silberman, have provided much of the OISC's start up financial and volunteer resources.