Through collaboration with Louisiana State University (LSU), we
have engaged in a new educational initiative that utilizes a
handheld, digital microscope with interchangeable magnifying
lenses. These “Touch & View” lenses allow you to magnify images
by touching them with the microscope lens tip. Focuses
instantly. No knobs to turn or squinting through an eyepiece.
Adrienne Lopez, LSU SOAR Coordinator, helped launch our effort
with a Scope-on-a-Rope workshop to 25 STEM teachers in Fall
2010. With a borrowed scope from LSU, Furman piloted a loaning
program in 2010-2011. Through NSF/NIH funding, we now have 7
scopes available (see descriptions below). Any South Carolina
teacher involved with science curriculum in a public, private,
or parochial K-12 school within the upstate region of South
Carolina, or an administrator wishing to promote science
education within his/her school, is eligible to request use of
the instrument. Read more about our loan program All of our
scopes have been purchased through School Tec