We believe in tackling global problems through coordinated local community efforts powered by citizen science.
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OFC thanks all her efforts and wishes continued success of her project! Her students Rajesh, Meenu, Anjali, Kajal, Akash, Rani, Naina, Sunaina, Neeraj Kumar, Rajat, and Sagar. Great going everyone 👏 💚
Meet Poonam Verma, a science teacher from Bulandshahr, UP India, who is participant of OFC's algal bloom project working tirelessly with her students to monitor algal bloom in their local waterbody. #algalbloom #algae #frugal #citizenscience
The Free Press Journal talks about OFC's new project by @Edurafi, have come up with a technique to modify a #foldscope and make it detect #microplastics in air/dust and educate the children about environmental problems caused by #plastics.
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Beautiful movie captured by students in our cohort from Telangana women PG college, India when they went exploring 😀
#WomenInSTEM #microscopy #CitizenScience
Philodina- kind of rotifer that live in fresh water environment. Interestingly even though these are microscopic they are still considered animals because of its amazing digestive tract and specialized organs. Check out the fast moving cilia on its mouth to draw water in.
All this was made possible due to all the ground work and extensive planning by the team of co-founders @sayakb66 @IkbalChoudhur20 @Ankita_13Jha @aankitddwivedi and @khannakanika111. All of them have never met in person and have been working together for more than a 2 yrs)
Thank you everyone who has been a part of this journey and helping us in our goal of making science education more accessible and equitable but more important sparking joy about science 😊 Please feel free to connect and share your ideas💡 with us. openfieldcollective.org
All this would not have been possible without the support and grant from funding bodies like @NatGeo @NatGeoEducation @awesomefound and COMPASS grants from @ASCBiology!!
We have just started a new pilot program on teaching astronomy to students from low resource settings. This project is spearheaded by two amazing scientists Dr. Ayan Acharyya @thebigsigma and Dr. Swetha Bhagwat. Check out their sessions on youtube 🌙 🌚 🌟youtu.be/mInpaMeT6Lo
We would like to express our gratitude to @vbcorless and @NicoleKilianPhD who were very kind to share our thoughts about OFC and citizen in this wonderful article at @AdvSciNews 🌟 Thank you!
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We are extremely thankful and fortunate that @INBT_JHU covered our views and story. Thank you so much to Gina Wadas @JHU_Alumni @JohnsHopkins for such a beautiful article and interacting with us!! 🌟
Check out this article here- inbt.jhu.edu/citizen-scienti…
The Telangana (India) cohort has been monitoring algal bloom in their water bodies and gathering data for more than 6 months now and has done some amazing work! 👏 We will be sharing their findings soooon.... enjoy some of their @TeamFoldscope images of algae.
We would also like to express our gratitude to @Edurafi who is a wonderful educator and helped us with foldscope trainings along with other teachers and educators! We really appreciate you and all you do.
Huge thanks to @TeamFoldscope for donating and facilitating foldscopes. @PrakashLab you have been a constant source of inspiration for us, thank you for laying ground for such a supportive community. You bring joy and spark curiosity everywhere!
In Bulandshahr, UP we have reached out to 100+teachers and trained them in frugal tools like @TeamFoldscope and paper-based spectroscope to estimate algal-bloom and identify algal species. Express our gratitude towards @AbhishekPande90 and his team for planning and vision 🙏 🙌
We are also extremely thankful to all the wonderful teachers and students across the globe who have trusted us and made this possible! We are ever to grateful that they dedicate their time and are so enthusiastic ❤️🧡💛💚
