In partnership with BioBus, Lumenera has donated seven of their research-grade microscopy cameras to be used on the bus. The cameras will equip the microscopes on the BioBus and allow students to capture their experiments and discoveries utilizing high performance cameras that can be found in professional laboratories.
The students will be sent home with the photos they took with our INFINITY cameras and have a chance to be entered into the "Student Cell-fie Image Contest," where the best image taken all school year will win its class the grand prize of a $500 back-to-school supply shopping spree and a microscope to benefit the entire class.
BioBus and Lumenera's cameras were featured in a "NBC Nightly News" segment. Watch it here:
The students went out and found real-life Pokemon, a wasp!
Beautiful closeup of flowers, made by students on the BioBus.
Beautiful bryozoan catpured on the tiles deployed in NYC's East River!
Twin amphipods!
Beautiful anenome from NYC's East River.
A colorful damselfly from the Smokey Mountains under BioBase microscopes!
Trippy close-up of plant cells with visible chloroplasts.
Beautiful image of a magnified flower captured earlier this year on the BioBus. Can you spot the hidden insect?
Curious find. A star-shaped algae?
Amazing image of a fly eye.
A vorticella colony discovered by students on the BioBus!
This seemingly harmless larvae captured under BioBus microscopes will soon grow into summer's most hated pest- the mosquito!
Close up shot of lichen, taken by a student with our microscope.
BioBus brought this critter back from Gloucester, MA!
Look at this glowing example of endosymbiosis!
Rotifer and algae discovered by Viola Elementary students!
Baby barnacle.
Oyster heart beating.
Daphnia gives birth.
Daphnia and algae.
Unknown creature.
Learning about cells.
Chloroplasts on the move.
Chloroplasts on the move.
Meet Alona, the water flea.
Unidentified "Critter."
A graceful copepod.
Image of a fly eye showing hundreds of ommatidia (lenses) in the fly's compound eye.
Filamentous algae and diatoms.
On a rainy day, we find these nematodes!
Filamentous and leaf-like algae, single-celled diatoms from NYC's East River.
Microscopic beauty! Diatoms from NYC's East River at 400x.
The 4th grade class at PS150 inspecting puddle life.
Right from the East River in NYC!
Amphipod from NYC's East River.
Striped anemone from NYC's East River.
Students captured a photo of this brine shrimp under the BioBus.
The students of PS184 Shuang Wen School capture a cute water bear.
The students of PS184 Shuang Wen School image a funny Protist.
Diatoms taken by the students from Ms. Kelly's class in Mill Basin.
"We had an arthropod filled day!" at Math for America.
Class 801 at PS171 take a look at their cheeks.
Class 801 at PS171 take a look at their cheeks.
Photo of an algae eater by Class 801 at PS171.
Photo of paramecium by Class 801 at PS171.
The fourth grade class of STAR Academy meets daphnia legs (at 200X, eating bacteria).
This first grade class from Greenwood Lake Elementary found an amoeba.
An unknown specimen (at 400X) taken by a first grade class at Greenwood Lake Elementary.
The seventh graders at Greenwood Lake Middle School found this single-celled organism swimming in pondwater.
"Plant vs. Animal" taken by the period 4 class at JMCSS.
"Looks like melted glass, a gas mask, contains color." Image of cheek cells taken by period 5 class at UASCS.
"Me and my cells." Image of cheek cells taken by period 5 class at UASCS.
Image of cheek cells taken by students at Bronx River High School.
Paramecium at 200x discovered by students on the BioBus.