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The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (OPTYCS) is a gamechanger in professional development for the TYC professor. In the last 4 years I have benefited immensely from the OPTYCs community and its resources. My contributions to the physics community are inextricably tied to OPTYCs. I highlight some of the great collaborations that I have been involved in through OPTYCs with AAPT affinity groups: PICUP (Partnership for Integration of Computation in Undergraduate Physics), STEP-UP (Supporting Teachers to Encourage the Pursuit of Undergraduate Physics), NASA HEAT (Heliophysics Education Activation Team) and NEXT Gen PET (Next Generation Physical Science for Everyday Thinking). Through OPTYCs, I have participated in mentoring relationships with professors that are starting off their physics careers, mid-career faculty and some very resourceful retired faculty that are still doing the work. Finally, involvement with OPTYCs webinars and online communications keeps the community in the Community College.