Foldscope Outreach Programme

May 22, 2018 • 9:18 AM UTC

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Today we (me and my co-cordinator Mr. Gautam Dev Sarma) have visited and organized a programme on foldscope at Charaikhola High School about 10 KM from Kokrajhar town, Assam. This school is an unaided institution, lacking proper infrastructure for science education. One science teacher of this school Mr Jahar Bhowmik have been trained on use of foldscope in our training programme for the mentors. So, today with the initiative of Mr Bhawmik we have organized this outreach programme. In the beginning we introduced ourselves to the kids and initiated a conversation about cell, microbes and microbial world. Most of them were aware of cell structure and microorganisms, but none of them has

seen cell/microorganism before. So, when we introduced Foldscope before them they were all excited. With the help of the mentor teacher and students we assembled foldscopes and then started observing slides on cell and microorganism. So, it was a great day for us.