• Question: What science equipment do you wish to give the students in Uganda, and what will it do to help them?

    Asked by caitlinpaul to Katy on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Katy Milne answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      They have asked me for some standard science equipment including:
      birettes, pipettes, micrometers, slides for microscopes, variable resistors, prisms. These are things that they are really short on. They have to share between lots of pupils. If they have more, more of the children will be able to do the practical experiments and be encouraged and enthused by science. I am going to buy these things for them and I am also hoping to get donations from a company who manufactures medical supplies.

      The big thing that they have asked me to buy for them is a projector. They have power in the school and they would like to be able to project images of images to do with science, like real images of cells or space. This would really help the kids learn. Projectors are very expensive (rubbish ones are £300). The £500 would let me get a good one and a few replacement bulbs – because they are really expensive too.

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