Students lead fiber optic work — Baton Rouge, LA

CARENCRO — High-speed fiber optic technology offers a new frontier in computing. Among the explorers: students at Carencro High School’s Academy of Information Technology. “The increase in speed and quality will revolutionize everything we do in the classroom,” said Elijah Parker, 17, a junior at Carencro.

Parker is among the students in the academy being groomed by local tech professionals to use fiber technology through a project called FiberKids...