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    Insights What academic advice would you tell your 18 year old self? - Comments

    18 years old? Write down your strong and weak characteristics. See Choppy's list. ENJOY making the weak ones better. Your boss/tutor of the moment is always one you need to impress - fail at that at, your peril. Look at Past Papers - and understand how to answer them well. Look them up BEFORE...
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    Explore and Discover Microscopy for Kids with STEM Ambassador

    Well, as I say it's ages 11-18 so you'd probably guess right. I guess all the readers of this forum have been there ;). It was harder to find a USA list than a British list, but Wikipedia has one...
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    Explore and Discover Microscopy for Kids with STEM Ambassador

    Thanks for the reply Scott! I should have emphasized that I'm looking for things which relate strongly to the schools' curriculum. The reason is that schools (teachers) are up to their eyeballs in teaching the exam stuff. It's really quite hard to get them to look at other things. So...
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    Explore and Discover Microscopy for Kids with STEM Ambassador

    Hi. I'm a retired several-sciences guy, a STEM Ambassador encouraging kids to look at science, hopefully fostering interest. I'm also interested in microscopy. I/we are looking for ideas for small items which demonstrate interesting/educational things, for kids to look at through microscopes...
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    Retired; from physics, metallurgy, materials, electronics....

    ...so I do volunteer teaching, demonstrating... Here for ideas for small things to show
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