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Microscope images from workshops:
  • Some nice examples of images taken by microscope builders at our workshops
Upcoming workshops:
  • Postponed, to be rescheduled: Two Wilson County elementary schools and a Wilson County teachers conference
Past workshops:
  • March 2023 NCTIES conference in Raleigh for NC K-12 school educators
  • Oct 2022 Cherokee Elementary School, Cherokee NC
  • May 2022 Bradley Creek Elementary, Wilmington, NC
  • May 2022 five Rutherford County, NC schools
  • March 2022 West Oxford Elementary, Oxford NC
  • March 2022 NCTIES conference in Raleigh for NC K-12 school educators
  • Jan 2022 Cell & Developmental Biology class at UNC
  • Dec 2021 teachers workshop for Cabarrus County, NC elementary schools
  • March 2020 NCTIES statewide teachers' conference in Raleigh, NC
  • Jan 2020 in a Cell & Developmental Biology class at UNC
  • Oct 2019: Oak Lane Elementary School, Person County, NC
  • March 2019 NCTIES conference for NC teachers
  • Jan 2019 teachers workshop for Sampson County Schools
  • Jan 2019 Cell & Developmental Biology class at UNC
  • Aug 2018 Art & Science class at UNC Chapel Hill
  • Aug 2018 EdCamp Sampson, Clinton, NC
  • March 2018 NCTIES conference in Raleigh for NC educators
  • Feb 2018 in Edgewood Elementary School, Whiteville, NC
  • Jan 2018 in a Cell & Developmental Biology class at UNC
  • Oct 2017 New Hope Elementary school, Orange County, NC
  • Oct 2017 workshop with teachers at Kidzu Children's Museum
  • July 2017 workshop with Chapel Hill teen center kids
  • May 2017 teachers workshop at Kidzu Children's Museum
  • April 2017 teachers workshop at Northside Elementary School, Chapel Hill
  • Mar 2017 workshop with teachers and science specialists at a statewide teachers' conference in Raleigh, NC
  • Jan 2017 Cell & Developmental Biology class at UNC
  • Oct 2016 teachers workshop at Kidzu Children's Museum
  • May 2016 teachers workshop at Kidzu Children's Museum
  • March 2016 our first teachers' workshop, at Carrboro Elementary School
  • Jan 2016 Cell & Developmental Biology class at UNC
  • Oct 2015 Evolution & Development class at UNC Chapel Hill
  • Oct 2014 Evolution & Development class at UNC Chapel Hill

DIY microscopes NC public schools
Our workshops' coverage to date across North Carolina

Picture
A teacher at a Sampson County workshop (photo by Amy Tart)
Spin-off workshops:
Below are workshops run by people who've participated in the workshops above or who made use of our info to develop new workshops. If our efforts were helpful for a workshop you ran, and you have a resulting gallery or other info that you can share, please do email me. Some links below demonstrate interesting extensions that people have made to the experience! -Bob
  • July 2022 workshop for 6-10 year olds & their families run by Dyche Mullins at the Rockcastle Arts Association, Mt Vernon, Kentucky
  • Mar 2022 MBL-funded workshop run by Alice Sherrard, Caroline Hoppe, Valerie Tornini, Mina Kojima, and Mark Pownall of Yale University
  • Jan 2020 workshop run by Madison Rackear with youth in the Yale Pathways to Science program, New Haven, CT
  • Jan 2020 workshop run by Pablo Silva Rodriguez with women-in-STEM educators in Santo Domingo Xenacoj, Guatemala
  • Dec 2019 workshop run by Pablo Silva Rodriguez with community leaders and educators in Xela / Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
  • July 2019 workshop run by Victoria Deneke with teachers and students in El Salvador, a summary in Spanish, translated to English, and a story about Victoria's outreach work
  • May 2018 workshop run by Allyson Roberts with kids at UNC Children's Hospital
  • April 2018 workshop run by UNC grad students Allyson Roberts and Kira Glynn with girls in the Girls Engineering Change program in Chapel Hill
  • Feb 2018 workshops run by UNC grad student Allyson Roberts with students at Whiteville High School in Columbus County, NC
  • Oct 2017 workshop run by UNC grad students Allyson Roberts and Kira Glynn with Girls Engineering Change program at Kidzu in Chapel Hill
  • Nov 2016 Girl Scouts workshop run by UNC PhD student Jenny Heppert
  • June 2016 kids workshop in Encinitas, California run by UNC graduate Rukmini Deva
Bob Goldstein | Biology Department | UNC Chapel Hill