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Bugscope: The Second Year of a Sustainable Remote Microscope Project for K-12 Education Outreach.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

C.S. Potter ,
B. Carragher ,
L. Carroll ,
C. Conway ,
B. Grosser ,
J. Hanlon ,
N. Kisseberth ,
S. Robinson ,
D. Stone  and
U. Thakkar
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C.S. Potter
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
B. Carragher
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
L. Carroll
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
C. Conway
Affiliation:
University High School, Urbana, IL61801
B. Grosser
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
J. Hanlon
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
N. Kisseberth
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
S. Robinson
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
D. Stone
Affiliation:
University High School, Urbana, IL61801
U. Thakkar
Affiliation:
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61801
D. Weber
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL61801
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Bugscope is a second generation educational project in the World Wide Laboratory that provides web browser based control of scientific imaging instrumentation using the Internet. We had previously demonstrated web based remote access to sophisticated scientific imaging systems several years ago in the Chickscope project. The primary goal of the Bugscope project is to demonstrate that relatively low cost, sustainable access to an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) can be made available to K-12 classrooms.

Methods: To participate in the project, a classroom submits a web based application that describes how they plan to use the microscope. If the application is accepted, a one hour session on the ESEM is scheduled and the classroom mails in their chosen specimen. During their access time, classrooms use a standard web browser over the Internet to control and acquire images from the ESEM (Philips/FEI XL-30FEG).

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Teaching Microscopy in the New Millennium
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 6 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2000, Microscopy Society of America 58th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 34th Annual Meeting, Microscopical Society of Canada/Societe de Microscopie de Canada 27th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 13-17, 2000 , August 2000 , pp. 1160 - 1161
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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