STCC steers student toward internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Springfield, Mass. – Growing up in south Texas, Gerald Gagnon never dreamed he’d be working in a premier research laboratory affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But this summer, a week after receiving his certificate in Optics and Photonics Technology from Springfield Technical Community College, Gagnon started working as an intern at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Department of Defense research and development lab in Lexington.