When you book a visit, our learning lab is set up onsite for you to utilise with your students at school. Length of the visit is negotiable, however most schools keep the learning lab for 1-2 weeks depending on school size and learning goals.

What can you do with a scanning electron microscope?

Applications of Scanning Electron Microscopy include, but are not limited to, medicine, aerospace research, geology, food industry, cosmetics, industrial, archaeology, forensics, materials    research, biology, oceanography, entomology, agriculture.

• music students looking at string gauges and reed thickness in relation to pitch
• art and design students creating art interpretations of micrographs and using photoshop to colour images
• science students analysing synthetic and natural fibres left at a crime scene scenario
• agriculture students measuring wool microns
• horticulture students identifying vine pest and disease
• chemistry students looking at crystal structures
• biology students classifying tardigrades and identifying leaf anatomical structures
• woodwork students looking at woodgrain and timber densities

The limit is only our imagination.