News
Articles from “NanoWire” – the RAIN newsletter, articles about the latest professional development opportunities being offered, and other interesting articles about the world of nano.
Electron Microprobe at Caltech joins RAIN Network
The Geological and Planetary Science Division's Analytical Facility at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has joined the RAIN network, bringing an electron microprobe into the network for the first time. The facility currently includes a JEOL JXA-8200...
University of New Mexico–Support Center for Microsystems Education
The Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME) is located in Albuquerque, NM at the University of New Mexico's Manufacturing Training and Technology Center (MTTC). The MTTC's cleanroom allows students and educators the opportunity to learn how microsystems are...
Using RAIN in Conjunction with Problem-Based Learning to Promote Student Success
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....
Remotely Accessible Instruments for Nanotechnology Testimonials
"Over the past year, I have been very impressed with how the RAIN program could be implemented in K-12 classrooms. We have had great success in the past implementing NASA resources in schools, bridging earth and space science. However, thinking about the...
CABOCES
Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES partners with 22 component K-12 school districts to meet the educational needs of all students in the area. Located in southwestern New York State, CABOCES encompasses 2,159 square miles in Cattaraugus, Allegany, Erie, and Wyoming counties....
Forsyth Technical Community College
RAIN is pleased to welcome its newest partner, the Nanotechnology Program at Forsyth Technical Community College. Forsyth Tech’s program strives to involve students in experiential learning that is based on enhancement of fundamental concepts of Nanotechnology. Our...
Remotely Accessible Experiments for Use in K-12 Education
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...