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Local Affiliate Society Outreach Programs
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.
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.
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
mccanns@tiac.net
161 Claflin St.
Belmont, MA 02478
Phone:(617)484-7865
Fax:617-484-2490
Douglas Taatjes
douglas.taatjes@uvm.edu
Microscopy Imaging Center
Univ. of Vermont College of Medecine
Phone:(802)656-0813
HSRF Room 203
Burlington, VT 05405
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
