Every year, the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis is organising visits to the Electron Microscope Unit with the option of visiting the Pathology Museum and the Macleay Museum on the University of Sydney campus. The Schools Open Days provide students with first-hand demonstrations of specimen preparation and hands-on experience of electron microscopes as background to their class work.

Schools Open Days activities

• A historical review of the microscope and structure of electron microscopes.
• A comparison of the light and electron microscopes.
• Specimen preparation for the transmission electron microscope (TEM).
• Hands-on TEM: students can operate a TEM and find organelles.
• Specimen preparation for the scanning electron microscope (SEM).
• Hands-on operation of the SEM.