Microscopy Workshops Feb 2010 preparations - Pageant supporting education in The Gambia

Pageant are holding its first Microscopy Workshops in The Gambia. They are designed to pass on essential know-how, as well as supplying basic microscopy equipment to schools which do not yet have any. The workshops have been made possible with a grant from the Royal Microscopical Society, donations of both money and equipment, and generous discounts from many suppliers.

Links & updates
Microscopy workshops, main page	How the RMS Vice President’s Fund, donations and generous discounts enabled us to run the first workshops
Feb 2010 workshops, Kathy's blog	February 2010 Microscopy Workshops - Kathy Groves blog posts from The Gambia
Microscopy Sheet (PDF format)	This is the sheet handed out at the workshops. You might find this useful if you are a science teacher.
RMS	Royal Microscopical Society - at the forefront of microscopy and imaging for 180 years.
Donate	Send us a cheque or make an online donation to help Pageant run these and future workshops

The Pageant team is led by three Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society, Peter Evennett, Kathy Groves and Pippa Howard, assisted by one of Pippa's ERA colleagues, two retired teachers and three other Pageant members. Workshops will be located in four schools, with teachers from some 40 schools attending. Virtually all the kit and ancillary items must be taken out from the UK, as even quite common things here are unobtainable in The Gambia. The list below shows what is being taken out, and everything there will be distributed amongst the baggage of the Pageant team. Once again, thanks to Thomas Cook for giving Pageant a generous additional free baggage allowance.


	Trekker microscope kit

Optika monocular microscope	wind-up torch used as illuminator

Equipment List

80 Junior microscopes (Optika MS-2)
40 Trekker field microscopes
80 wind-up torches
40 plastic storage boxes
250 Bug boxes, 1.5" x3
250 Bug boxes, 1" x4
200 small magnifying glasses
100 pocket loupe x10
40 slide box
180 paper binoculars
100 plastic tweezers
80 6" rulers
200 used film canisters
40 plastic basket
160 single-edge razor blades
40 small card boxes
240 paintbrushes
40 blutac / white tac
40 sellotape
40 Disposable scalpels
80 pads/notebooks
200 glass slides
40 cavity slides
110 sheets of 32 cardboard slides
4 packs elastic bands
4 boxes filter paper 11cm (100 sheets)

8 boxes cocktail sticks
400 small poly-bags
1 roll of 80 bin bags for wrapping trays etc
40 glue sticks
400 Plastic petri-dishes
500 plastic pipettes
400 cover slips
80 squares laminated graph paper,
80 A4 plastic wallets
40 sheets labels for slides
80 larger magnifiers
200 plastic spoons
200 plastic cups
40 small plastic storage boxes
40 cheap holdall
40 half-sheets black paper
pens, pencils
40 Course booklets
40 Junior microscope diagram & care leaflets
40 Trekker diagram & use leaflets
40 laminated sheets 'Living World'
40 laminated sheets 'Manufacturing World'
81 Microscopy Sheets - how to observe etc
4 P&K Biolam transmitted light microscopes
3 scissors for prep only
1 washing-up liquid