To the many Foldscoping thrills ahead of me in Cape Town! If you were to tell me a year ago that I’d be in Cape Town for a quarter off my university studies, I probably would’ve looked left and right, then accepted my ignorance by saying “Uhh, what? Where exactly is Cape Town, and what’s…
Category: Workshop / Event
ROLE OF FOLDSCOPE IN ORGANIC FARMING
Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, organised a workshop on “Role of Foldscope in Organic Farming” at Vivekananda Institute of Biotechnology, Sri Ramkrishna Ashram, Nimpith, West Bengal, India on 6th April, 2019. Introductory phase- In this phase, basic introduction of foldscope was given to all the participants. Demonstration Phase- In this phase, we demonstrated…
One day workshop on foldscope at the Nature Study camp
Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, organised a workshop on, “Magnify your curiosity- Explore The Microcosmos with Foldscope” at Joygopalpur, West Bengal, India on 27th March 2019. Introductory phase- The workshop started with giving a basic idea of nature to the participants. After that, a brief idea of the microscopic world was given to…
One Day Workshop on the use of Foldscope
Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta jointly with Department of Physics, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Adarsha Mahavidyalaya, organised a workshop on Foldscope on 28th March 2019. Introductory Session- Since the participants of this workshop previously had exposure to foldscope, the workshop was for advanced students. This session began with a basic introduction to foldscope and…
One day workshop on Foldscope at Dakshin Kalikata Sevasram, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Dakshin Kalikata Sevasram is situated at Sarat Bose Lane, Kolkata, West Bengal. It is a home for boys belonging to the impoverished background. It was established in 1924 by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. A one-day workshop on, “Magnify Your Curiosity Explore the Microcosmos” was organised by Department Of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, at Dakshin…
Introducing Foldscope to Bunch of Degree students from Assam
A Batch of 54 Students of Chemistry , Botany and Zoology from Kaziranga University and Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya respectively and were introduced with Foldscope and its trial application on sericulture dated on 13th March, 2019 . They were also updated about the other ongoing on works related to foldscope on microcosmos site all over the…
Wish Challenge
Hello Foldscope community, Let’s make some changes in the way we use this community. Usually being part of a challenge moves us to be active continuously and work hard. So what I would like to suggest is to turn Microcosmos platform to a Q & A game challenge to fulfil a wish. Read more below,…
Workshop on foldscope assembly and its application in sericulture to farmers of Khowang ,Assam
A batch of 63 Sericulture farmers of Khowang district, Dibrugarh Assam India were trained under DBT funded project on foldscope assembly and how to use it for detection of diseases in silkmoth and its eggs. (i.e mother moth examination). We tried to have an interactive session on difficulties faced while rearing and disease control,thus how…
Technological Exhibition Fair-SKUAST-K
Educating Youth, School Children, Farmers, Scientists, Dignitaries, TV correspondents and others about ‘Use Of Foldscope For Detection Of Fake Saffron’. This is the first report on such use from anywhere in the world and is being standardized in our lab. Excellent and successful two days at Technology Exhibition Fair (Kissan Mela) at SKUAST-K on 9th…
Introducing Foldscope in my college’s annual festival
This time I wanted to take bigger step and organize for presenting the amazing Foldscope at crowded festival. Now after everything is done I am happily writing to you step by step the preparation for the festival, experience and lessons I learned. And of course about the festival it self. Happy reading 1) The Idea…
樋井川さんぽ (福岡市) Hii River Walk in Fukuoka, Japan
皆さんこんにちは！Hi everyone! ３月２３日に福岡県福岡市を流れる樋井川（ひいかわ）の水辺環境を大切にしている地元の皆さんにお招き頂き、「樋井川さんぽ」に参加しました！On March 23rd, 2019, I was invited by an amazing community group in Fukuoka, Japan to join them for the monthly Creek Walk along Hii River. 「樋井川さんぽ」とは、２０１８年１月から月１回行われている清掃活動と環境学習を兼ねた活動 (詳細はこちら）。樋井川を大切にする地元の方々が連携して企画・開催されています。当日の様子は活動担当をされている宮本さくらさんのブログや樋井川さんぽFBでもご覧いただけます。The Creek Walk at Hii River is a monthly creek appreciation event that’s been planned, coordinated, and executed by the local community group since January 2018….