Summer Workshops and Science Experiments from VernierHello [firstname, fallback=Vernier Customer], Put a little spring into your teaching this May by checking out our featured labs listed below. Also, join us this summer for one of our hands-on workshops to learn how to integrate our data-collection technology into your science curriculum. Lastly, thank you, our customers, for 30 great years. Be sure to apply for one of our thirty $10,000 grants that we're offering to celebrate our anniversary!
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New Experiments for Optics Expansion Kit and Color Mixer KitOur Optics Expansion Kit and Color Mixer Kit expand the capabilities of the Vernier Dynamics System. Use the precision markings and convenient fixtures to explore the inverse-square law of light brightness, real and virtual images, the optics of telescopes and cameras, additive and subtractive color mixing, and more. |
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Build a Blood Pressure MonitorOur new LabVIEW toolkit makes it easy to use your Vernier interface and sensors in new and exciting ways. Watch this video from the new Engineering Projects with NI LabVIEW™ and Vernier book that shows how your students can program and design a data-acquisition system that automatically inflates and deflates a blood pressure cuff, acquires data from the Vernier Blood Pressure Sensor, and analyzes the data to determine systolic and diastolic pressure. |
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Use the SpectroVis Plus to Study ProteinsJohn Melville, our Biology Staff Scientist, has developed a laboratory exercise that investigates proteins using our SpectroVis Plus spectrophotometer or our Colorimeter. This experiment contains several extensions that are appropriate for college. |
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Video Analysis in ChemistryVideo analysis in Logger Pro is not just for physics anymore. Check out the movie our chemists made showing the melting temperature of an organic solid using the new Vernier Melt Station. |
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Vernier Summer WorkshopsBecome efficient using Vernier data-collection technology at any one of our 14 workshops offered across the country. Each six-hour workshop features hands-on training for only $99. You can also add one of two special training packages of Vernier equipment at a discount. |
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Two-Day Subject-Specific InstitutesFor in-depth training, join us at one of our two-day, subject-specific institutes offered across the country for only $199. Workshops are targeted for high school or college instructors of biology, chemistry, and physics. The workshop includes a Vernier lab book, and you can also add one of two training packages of Vernier equipment at a special discount. |
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Win One of 30 $10,000 Technology Grants from VernierVernier is celebrating 30 years by putting money where innovation begins—into the hands of STEM educators and their students. How would you use a $10,000 technology grant to teach fundamental science and technology skills to the next generation of scientists and engineers? Start the wheels turning today. Grant applications are due by June 1, 2011. |
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