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UNA VENTANA AL MUNDO MICRO
Nos dimos cita en la escuela “Experimental” para continuar con la entrega de microacopios foldscope.
Este programa resulta un éxito para estimular la investigación científica de alumnos de primaria y secundaria. Nos llena de alegría ver la emoción con la que niñas y niños aprenden y se divierten con sus microscopios, curioseando con hojas, insectos, gotas de agua y hasta sus cabellos.
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All, Thrilled to announce and share the Foldscope app; live at iOS store. You all know this has been under development for a while; it’s such a joy to share this with all of you. Please go download it and give it a spin. I am writing this post from the app itself. A key…
El increíble microuniverso natural está a la espera de su conquista. Te ayudaremos a que con un Foldscope y tu curiosidad, te conviertas en una excelente persona cazadora del microcosmos.
Today I and my small scientist Ms. Sri Lakshmi decide to paint some drawings by using a paintbrush. Suddenly we thought to see the soft brush bristle in microscopy. Once after completing the painting we have opened our foldscope kit and seen the microscopic images of the same. Those images I am attaching with this…
Así fue nuestro segundo ciclo de talleres uniendo las ciudades de Xalapa y Cozumel en México.
This past summer I had a pleasure of meeting Prof. Manu Prakash and getting a tour of his wonderful lab at Stanford University. Our conversation about the importance of resourcefulness, open-source knowledge, and accessibility of scientific tools inspired me organize an outreach event in my hometown in Serbia. Brainstorming with my friends from high school…
Congratulations Foldscope India for reaching a new milestone by training 100,000 kids. I am super proud of this amazing news. What an achievement! Very inspiring for Foldscope Iraq as an emerging movement. Your efforts are pushing us to do a lot more.Please read more for our vision (What, How and Why we do)… Thanks, Mo…
Un nuevo taller de “Conquistando el microcosmos con Foldscope” se llevó a cabo a través de nuestra iniciativa Join the Node en el Colegio Nuestro Mundo de la ciudad de Xalapa, Veracruz. La escuela nos recibió con el excelente entusiasmo del grupo de niños de quinto grado. Todos cuestionantes y muy abiertos a la discusión…
Date: 29th Nov. 2019Place: St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), MumbaiDescription:On 29th Nov. 2019, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai, organized a DBT-CTEP funded day-long science fair to showcase the undergraduate research work being done in college and the opportunities in science. More than 200 school and junior college students and accompanying teachers from South Mumbai (as also…
On Thursday 2019 – 11 – 28 we had a fantastic morning at Nasa’em Kindergarten with pupils age 4-5 years old. We started with a brief presentation as introductory to make the subject relevant to them. Later we did a hands-on practical demonstration and show them live mounts eg. Rotifer. And from prepared slides Fern…
Train the trainers workshops were conducted this year after the I years got inducted and settled in their classes. Ten Students from I B.Sc.Physics and I B.Sc. Maths attended these training 27, August and 5, Sep after College hours. These students mainly took samples of pollen and parts of flowers from our campus and water…
Under DBT Foldscope scheme, One Day Workshop on DBT Foldscope- Assembly & Usage was conducted at CTTE College, Chennai on 22, Aug, 2019. Nearly 50 students from various classes of B.Sc. Physics participated in this workshop enthusiastically. Our volunteers who guided the participants belong to four different generation of Foldscopers of our College. This is…
Under DBT Foldscope project, we could reach out to nearly 90 students and 10 Science teachers and Science activity room staff of Ramakrishna Mission group of Schools, Chennai. Students and teachers from their three different schools participated in this workshop on 13, Aug, 2019.
En esta breve nota los invitamos a conocer el microcosmos. Promovamos los talleres de aprendizaje de la microciencia y conozcamos el tejido que une la vida en nuestro planeta.
In 2018 Foldscope helped us to enable, launch and bring science experience to the local community in Iraq. As a young undergraduate student, I really like the idea of Frugal science and have many wow moments every time I use Foldscope. As a result, this passion has been driven from only a hobby to become…
On invitation by colleague (Zoology, Cotton University) and coordinator of ASTEC, Assam funded science populerisation drive there in a school at Tihu, Nalbari, Assam, Foldscope was taken to add in their endevour in igniting young minds.
Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta and Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya Vigyan Prasar Samity jointly organized a workshop in collaboration with Howrah Vigyan Chetna Samannaya on 19th October 2019 at Khalna, Howrah, West Bengal. Introductory Session- In this session, a brief idea about the origami microscope and its applications were demonstrated by the Foldscope team,…
Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS) Vattinagulapally is a semi-rural local government school on the outer fringes of the city of Hyderabad, Telangana. I have been visiting this school as a volunteer in the weekend outreach program of TIFR Hyderabad, since July this year. Classes at Vattinagulapally are fairly small, partly because of drop-outs after elementary…
A campaign was conducted in the villages of Rajaborari to educate women on importance of hygiene with emphasis of cloth and menstrual hygiene. Women were explained the importance and procedure to wash clothes. They were shown slides of microbes with the help of foldscope. Microbes were collected from unwashed bedding, unclean towel, etc. 100 women…
Poster and collage competition was conducted for 150 students from 6th to 12th standard, from 4 different schools namely, (Prem Vidyalaya, R.E.I. from Agra, Soami Nagar Model School from New Delhi and Primary and secondary schools from Rajaborari) and best two entries from every school were awarded first and second prize. The topic for the…
Workshop for school students from 6th to 12th standard, 150 students from 4 different schools namely, (Prem Vidyalaya, R.E.I. from Agra, Soami Nagar Model School from New Delhi and Primary and secondary schools from Rajaborari) participated. Students were briefed on hygienic practices e.g. Oral hygiene, hand hygiene, cloth hygiene, hair hygiene, etc. Related scientific videos…
News article published in Patrika news paper, Harda district edition, page number 10, 8th February, 2019
Workshop no menstrual hygiene was held at schools in Rajaborari, a remote area in Madhya Pradesh. School students were shown the bacteria on sanitary napkins using foldscope. Slides were created by collecting the bacteria on napkins. Doctors were invited to explain menstrual hygiene to students and sample sanitary napkins were distributed.
It was great to see accomplished scientists from around the world so excited about science. It’s sometimes easy to get caught in details of our research and forgot how much we love science and discovery ! I hope that all the people present at this workshop will say “hi” at the bottom of this post…