Interaction with Foldscope with NSS volunteers at Dhapa, West Bengal

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Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta organized a small interactive session with NSS volunteers at Dhapa on 25th January,2019 . Dhapa is located at the outskirts of East Kolkata. Most of the solid waste of the city gets dumped in this area and the people of this region recycle the waste.
Introductory session-
The session started with introducing Foldscope to the
participants and its applications.
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Demonstrating details of Foldscope to the participants by Ranjan Das, member of team Foldscope, University of Calcutta
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Introduction of Foldscope to participants Demonstration-
After brief introduction about Foldscope, our team
demonstrated how to observe a slide under Foldscope.
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Demonstration and Observation with Foldscope Observation and
projection-
Different types of prepared slides such as fungi,
pollens, amoeba etc were observed under Foldscope as well as got projected via
Airdroid application. With this when one participant was observing under
Foldscope others could also see it.
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Participants Observing with Foldscope
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Observation with Foldscope Conclusion-

Concept of Foldscope
was new to them and they enjoyed demonstration of Foldscope microscopy

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