This year's workshop featured thirty-two trainees from twelve different countries while continuing our tradition of providing an exceptional instructor to trainee ratio. The three-day workshop featured morning lectures given by experts from Harvard University, Purdue University, University of Ottawa, University of California, Irvine, and Olympus, Inc. Industry representatives were on hand from Horiba JY, Coherent Inc., High Q Laser, APE, and Olympus Inc. Afternoons were devoted to lab training sessions with Xie Group instructors. Each trainee began with taking spontaneous Raman spectra, familiarization with laser scanning microscopes and ultrafast lasers, and finding the CARS signal on Day 1; then on to the difference between E-CARS and F-CARS, Epi-CARS through Mechanisms I, II, and III, CARS imaging in biology, and spectral dependence in CARS microscopy on Day 2. And on Day 3 they performed real CARS experiments, which included monitoring lipid droplet trafficking, macrophage uptake of exogenous neutral lipids, visualization of POPS "onions," and CARS tissue imaging.