Zeiss Donates Powerful Primo Star Digital Classroom Microscope to White Plains High School
Zeiss announces it recently donated a Primo Star Digital Classroom Microscope to the White Plains School Department, in White Plains, NY. The Primo Star features an integrated HD streaming camera and Labscope imaging software, an easy-to-use imaging app that enables teachers to connect several classrooms to a network. Also donated was an Axiocam 208 8 megapixel color microscope camera, ideal for helping science teachers presenting and sharing laboratory activities. Several White Plains High School science teachers are using the equipment in biology, environment, and other classes to enhance lab activities for both students in the classroom and those working remotely. The donation was made as part of Zeiss’s Science Classroom Outreach Program for Educators (SCOPEs) Grant, established to help teachers face the new challenge of educating students through remote learning.
“It is difficult to offer authentic science learning experiences when you do not have kids in front of the microscope, and they cannot touch things,” said Dr. Margaret Hawthorne Doty, Coordinator of Science and Engineering for White Plains Public Schools. “The Zeiss equipment provides an incredibly valuable resource that helps students feel like they’re getting authentic science at a time when its challenge to do so.”