Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, organised a one day workshop at C.S.N High School, Balarampur, Purulia, West Bengal, India on 13 ^th April 2019.

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Introductory Session-

The workshop started with Dr. Punarbasu Chaudhuri, giving the basic idea of foldscope and the microscopic world to the participants.

The participants were students of standard 6 to 10. Prior to this workshop, they had no exposure to a microscope or foldscope. So the workshop was their gateway to the microscopic world.

Demonstration session-

In this session, Ranjan, member of our foldscope team, explained how to fold and assemble a foldscope followed by a demonstration of various microscopic objects such as algae, fungi, various types of tissue, plant cell etc.

Observation under foldscope-

In this session, students observed various microscopic objects with foldscope such as algae, fungus, pollen grains etc.

Conclusion-

This was their first exposure to foldscope and it was a very successful.