Positive impacts of OPTYCs on my teaching and my professional development

The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (OPTYCs) has had a profound influence on my teaching and my professional development. In fact, my CV mentions OPTYCs twelve times, mostly related to workshops and seminars that I have either attended or helped to facilitate. I will share some of the ways that OPTYCs has had a positive influence on my career: the experience of collaborating with others in writing a grant proposal, some ways that the teaching environment in my classroom has been transformed, support that our local section of AAPT has received, and presentations supported or inspired through OPTYCs that I have given online, nationally, and even internationally.