Jim Cybulski is a co-founder of Foldscope, the ultra-affordable, paper microscope that you assemble yourself. Designed to be inexpensive, durable, and to give optical quality similar to conventional research microscopes, Foldscope brings hands-on microscopy to new places! It has reached over 1 million people and created a global community of explorers unlike any other!

Foldscope is a company that develops low-cost scientific tools with the mission of making science accessible to everyone around the world. Foldscope is rugged, durable, and 100% waterproof; with over 1,000X magnification with digital zoom, it resolves single-cell bacteria (0.18 NA). You can learn more about us in this PDF. Foldscope is a powerful tool that allows students to carry on scientific explorations anywhere - which makes it perfect for remote learning! You can read about the impact Foldscope has been having on students of the Ector County Independent School District (Texas, US) here.

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