by Renee Lindenberg | Apr 15, 2018 | RAIN Outreach
Pasadena City College sent four students to the Computer Using Educators Conference in Palm Springs, CA in March. The students, Ashley Min, Vanessa Wolf, Isabel Bojanini and Melaine Hacopian presented via a digital poster. The two presentations were on using a...
by Renee Lindenberg | Jan 15, 2018 | RAIN Outreach
The University of Iowa Microfabrication Facility (UIMF) launched an online course in Micro and Nanofabrication in the fall of 2017, enabled by an Innovation in Teaching Technology Award. The topics of this multi-disciplinary course deal with the fundamentals of micro-...
by Renee Lindenberg | Sep 15, 2017 | RAIN Outreach
Pasadena City College has been working with twenty-five Los Angeles area schools to implement remotely accessible instruments, specifically, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and electron dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) into K-12 classrooms through the RAIN Network....
by Renee Lindenberg | Feb 15, 2017 | RAIN Outreach
Our education is experiencing a dramatic shift in content that students are exposed to in our K-12 system. Though the focus has been on common core, there is also a push to reevaluate how science courses are taught in the creation of Next Generation Science Standards...
by Renee Lindenberg | Feb 15, 2017 | RAIN Outreach
For those of us in the RAIN network, we know that access to our sophisticated instrumentation can be a strong outreach tool to engage students in the science classrooms. We often wonder how other disciplines use web-based access to instrumentation. Enter NANSLO, an...
by Renee Lindenberg | Nov 15, 2016 | RAIN Outreach
While it has become exceedingly difficult to find water in Southern California due to extreme drought conditions, there has been an excess of RAIN at Pasadena City College (PCC). Using our Phenom ProX Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy-Dispersive X-ray...
