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Several of MSA's local societies and one university now have outreach programs; they are all a bit different. If you want advice on how to organize a workshop, contact the Burlington, Vermont program; New England has been very successful at fundraising, Minnesota has an outstanding website, and Cornell has used grad students as volunteers effectively. If you want to join one of the programs, or if you want to learn more about what they're doing, please contact the program chairs.
Arizona Teacher workshops are held in Tucson annually; the local society has a good working relationship with the local school district. The society website is: http://www.msa.microscopy.com/MSALAS/AIMS/AIMSHOME.HTM Supapan Seraphin seraphin@u.arizona.edu Materials Science and Engineering Phone:(520) 621-6075 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721
Cornell University Materials Research Center No local society is associated with this university-sponsored grant-funded program, which uses grad student volunteers; 80 teachers and 2400 children have been served over 4 years. Their website has supplemental lessons for MICRO: www.ccmr.cornell.edu/microworld Educational Programs Office outreach@ccmr.cornell.edu Center for Materials Research Clark Hall Phone (607)255-9547 FAX(607)255-3957 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
Minnesota The oldest, largest LAS Project MICRO program. Circulating workshop kits, classroom volunteers, and a partnership worth a local science museum are all supported. Minnesota MICRO has fine website: http://www.mnmicroscopy.com/ProjectMicro/ Jeff Payne jjpayne@mmm.com 3M Center, Building 260-6A-23 Phone: 651-733-2352 St. Paul, MN 55144-1100
New England $5000 was raised for microscopes; kits have been assembled for loan to schools. Kits of materials and microscopes circulate to teachers in the greater Boston area and Burlington, Vermont volunteers visit a different school every month.
Mary McCann
Douglas Taatjes
New York/New Jersey The New York Microscopy Society is a long-established independent society that has recently become a MSA affiliate. They have an ongoing children's (and adult) educational program at their headquarters in Montclair, NJ. Donald O'Leary dkoleary@verizon.net 6 Chittenden Road Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 Phone: (201) 797-8849
Oklahoma OMS educational outreach efforts are alive and well. They've completed their 7th annual Ugly Bug contest, which continues to attract around 110 entries per year from elementary schools across the state. The website (www.uglybug.org) receives numerous queries regarding image use and microscopy in general. Microscopic Explorations is used as one of the prizes in the bug contest. The contest is funded by ConocoPhillips and Kerr-McGee, and this year the grand prize stereomicroscope was donated by Olympus. OMS calculates (conservatively) that its outreach programs have been a part of the educational experience of around 25,000 Oklahoma school children over the last seven years. Paige Johnson paige-johnson@utulsa.edu 9810 N. 136 E. Ave. Owasso, OK 74055
Pacific Northwest This program has just begun in Richland,Washington. Alice Dohnalkova Alice.Dohnalkova@pnl.gov Environmental Microbiology Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352 Phone: (509) 372-0692 office or (509) 376-3654 lab |