Partners coming together in Singapore

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Manu Prakash

I am a faculty at Stanford and run the Prakash Lab at Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Foldscope community is at the heart of our Frugal Science movement - and I can not tell you how proud I am of this community and grassroots movement. Find our work here: http://prakashlab.stanford.edu

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I had a rushed trip to Singapore - exploring so many potential partnerships in context of bringing ocean focused science education to communities in South East Asia. I was blown away by the passion, tenacity and the depth of everything the community is doing here. I met a school principle now working in the ministry on “slow science”.. I met ministry of education staff excited and deeply thinking about bringing and discussing curiosity on the table. Met school teachers that had implemented programs with foldscope for years. Met designers and artist excited about making relationship with nature a central theme. Met educators who have been engaged in running and organizing programs at the science center for more than 30 years. OceanX brought all of us together - under one roof - and has been building partnerships in ocean literacy and education for many years. I am excited about using the alignment to scale and bring foldscope to every kid in Singapore. That’s 800,000 kids - something we know we can execute right away. Just the joy and synchronization between the ministry, science center, educators, OceanX leadership and staff and a remarkably aligned ecosystem makes this possible.
Surprisingly - got to meet a life size cut-out of myself at the Singapore science center - which was a surprise (and strange).. but I am happy that a million of kids every year see “frugal science” as a field to influence and change the world for good.

I am flying back with many ideas and plans - and very excited about the implementation phase.

Keep exploring
Manu

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