New Microscopes for the High School

Thanks to the unparalleled generosity of Micron Bio-Systems, twelve new microscopes are now available for use by students in the Science Department of Rockbridge County High School. Funded by a gift of $10,000 from Micron Bio-Systems, the equipment is part of an on-going initiative of the Rockbridge County Public Schools Foundation to update and improve the sciences at RCHS.

Students use the new microscopes in science class.

Globes for Every Third Grader

For the third year in a row, in collaboration with the Lexington Sunrise Rotary and Wal-Mart, every third grader in the city and county was given, to keep at home, a 12-inch, mountain relief globe that contains over 4,000 current names and boundaries of countries, cities, oceans, rivers. This year third grade teams planned questions that were sent home with students to encourage family interaction with the globes.

Students and teachers open the new globes.

FOSS Kits

Funds for the purchase of more hands-on, interactive science materials that promote cooperative learning and stimulate excitement for 4th and 5th graders about insects and plants; magnetism and electricity; the sun, moon and stars; landforms, variables, measurement, and mixtures and solutions. These kits provided the opportunity for fifth grade hands-on innovative exploration of physics and earth science.

Students use their FOSS Kits.