{"id":186,"date":"2026-06-13T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/?p=186"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:06:08","slug":"meet-the-microswimmers-event-at-the-discover-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/2026\/06\/13\/meet-the-microswimmers-event-at-the-discover-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the microswimmers event at the Discover Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The kids at the &#8216;Meet the Microswimmers&#8217; Discover Festival workshops today were amazing. They loved building 3D printed microscopes; exploring sand, moss and mint leaf samples; and seeing microalgae \ud83e\udda0 swimming live using an Openflexure microscope \ud83d\udd2c. Thanks to the Pocketscope Team: Caitlin de Vries, Cameron Read, Jason Bains, Joe Zhang, Tom Coulson, Gary Caldwell, Paul Branch, and Adam Wollman for making this happen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/06\/08fb4700-5a73-4b38-ad7b-b0bc867c3a8b-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids at the &#8216;Meet the Microswimmers&#8217; Discover Festival workshops today were amazing. They loved building 3D printed microscopes; exploring sand, moss and mint leaf samples; and seeing microalgae \ud83e\udda0 swimming live using an Openflexure microscope \ud83d\udd2c. Thanks to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/2026\/06\/13\/meet-the-microswimmers-event-at-the-discover-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}