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Microscope images from workshops:
  • Some nice examples of images taken by microscope builders at our workshops
Upcoming workshops:​
  • March 2026 NCTIES conference in Raleigh for NC K-12 school educators
Past workshops:
  • Sept 2025 Glen Alpine Elementary, Burke County, NC
  • Sept 2025 Westwood & Mountain View Elementary schools, Ashe County, NC
  • April 2025 Pickett Elementary School, Lexington, NC
  • March 2025 NCTIES conference in Raleigh for NC K-12 school educators
  • Aug 2024 Wildwood Forest Magnet Elementary School, Academy of Arts and Design, Wake County, NC
  • May 2024 Wake Forest iSTEM Magnet Elementary, Wake County, NC
  • May 2024 Engelwood Elementary, Nash County, NC
  • March 2024 NCTIES conference in Raleigh for NC K-12 school educators
  • Jan 2024 Cell Biology class at UNC
  • Aug 2023 Newland Elementary and other Avery County Elementary Schools, Avery Tech Institute, NC
  • June 2023 Northeast Elementary, Lenoir County, NC
  • May 2023 Southwest Elementary School in Durham, NC
  • April 2023 Don D. Steed Elementary School in Raeford, NC
  • April 2023 Blue Creek Elementary School in Jacksonville, NC
  • 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
Spin-off workshops in other states and countries:
Below are workshops run by people who trained by attending one 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 of the links below demonstrate creative extensions that people have made to the experience! -Bob
  • Some links to images of a lot more workshops in Guatemala run by Pablo Silva Rodriguez: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • 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

DIY microscopes NC public schools
Our workshops' coverage to date across North Carolina
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Our 1000th microscope! Built by Ms. Samantha Carter-Palmer of Wildwood Forest Elementary School, Wake County
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A teacher at a Sampson County workshop (photo by Amy Tart)
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Teachers who just built microscopes, plus visitor Pablo Silva Rodriguez training to run his own workshops
Bob Goldstein | Biology Department | UNC Chapel Hill