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Project Micro on Display At Sciencefest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

David C. Bell
Affiliation:
The University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology Characterization Facility 16 Shepherd labs, 100 Union Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN, 55455
Ann T. Palmer
Affiliation:
The University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology, 219 Hodson Hall 1980 Folwell Ave, St Paul, MN, 55108
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Abstract

ScienceFest is coordinated through the International JASON Project that introduces the world of science through live satellite broadcasts. Dr. Robert Ballard, the ocean explorer who found the Titanic, started the program in 1989. Included in the ScienceFest presentations at the John Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Project MICRO run by the Minnesota Microscopy Society (MMS) was on display to the public. As in past years [1] the Project MICRO team of the MMS set up various microscope stations and invited the participants to record the things that they saw and to note what they learnt and mention the things they would like to see. The microscope stations are quite simple, low power ‘field’ microscopes and various samples as documented by the “Microscopic Explorations” [2] handbook that has been developed by the MSA in collaboration with the Lawrence Hall of Science [3] as part of their Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) series.

Type
Teaching Microscopy in the New Millennium (Organized by S. Barlow)
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2001

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References

1.Stuart, McKernan, ‘ “Microscopic Explorations ”; One Kit many Uses’, Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol. 6, S2 (2000)Google Scholar
2.Microscopic Explorations; Brady, S. and Willard, C, Lawrence Hall of Science, (1998) ISBN 0-924886-00-5Google Scholar
3.Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-5200.Google Scholar
4.Carolina Biological Supply Co, Burlington NC part # AA-59-Google Scholar