In eight years, 273 K-12 educators from 61(!) NC counties built their own microscopes at NCTIES conferences. Thanks #ncties and #ncties25 attendees for a great workshop today, thanks to volunteers for helping, and thanks to NSF for supporting this!
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10:15 this morning! Sheraton, 3rd floor, follow signs to Hannover, and then look for our giant sign. Can’t wait to build microscopes together! #NCTIES25

10:15am on Thurs at #NCTIES25 … make & take a microscope!

Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 5th grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thursday workshop is great for the 5th grade curriculum: Cells! Tissues! And active engagement in science!
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Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 4th grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 4th grade curriculum: Light refraction! Plant & animal structures! Fossils! Rocks! And active engagement in science!
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Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 3rd grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 3rd grade curriculum: skin! plant structures! soil components! And active engagement in science!
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Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 2nd grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 2nd grade curriculum: animal life cycles! Animals resembling parents! And active engagement in science!
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Going to NCTIES this week? This could be you! #NCTIES25
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Come build your own microscope on Thursday @ncties
#NCTIES25 … and tell others who aren’t on Bluesky… we’ll have materials for 40 educators to make and take away 40 microscopes!
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#NCTIES25 We’ll be back to help 40 more educators build their own microscopes! Add it to your schedule at sched.co/1uhbc

Going to #ncties25 ? Come build a microscope (to keep!) on Thursday morning. This is a fun session – here's some feedback from previous years including my favorite comment ever. sched.co/1uhbc #STEMeducation #nced

You can build your own microscope in a Thurs 10:15am
@ncties workshop at #ncties25 ! sched.co/1uhbc

2 weeks until we help you & your colleagues build your own microscopes at #NCTIES25 … add it to your #ncties conference schedule at this link: ncties2025.sched.com/event/1uhbc/...

Spread the news: in just 3 weeks we'll be back so YOU can build a microscope at #ncties25 in our workshop session... can't wait! Look how happy these educators are building microscopes at a previous @ncties conference! #ncties

The build-a-microscope workshop will be back at NCTIES in March! Plan to come and build your own microscope to take away! This is a fun session – here's some feedback from previous years including my favorite comment ever. #NCTIES25 #NCTIES2025 #STEMeducation #nced

Fig 1C of that paper makes us generally prefer mNeonGreen for embryos – illuminating at 488nm results in more autofluorescence from embryos.

Snowflake on a black mitten — photo taken on a DIY microscope by a student! Looking forward to helping educators at NCTIES24 build these microscopes.
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The microscope-building workshop at NCTIES will be back for NCTIES24 in March! Make a plan to come, bring friends, and build your own microscopes! This is a popular workshop – here's the feedback from last year's session...