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Jamie Yeatman (left), a first-year Laser and Photonics Technology student at Central Carolina Community College’s Harnett Campus, will present a paper at the 2009 SPIE Optics and Photonics Symposium in San Diego in August. Her instructor Gary Beasley (right) will assist her. The presentation will discuss the use of new teaching methods, such as Problem Based Learning, to help photonics students learn to solve real-world technical problems. The conference trip is funded by a grant from the New England Board of Higher Education. Yeatman is the daughter of Gail and Hubert Yeatman of Dunn.