Members of the EMUS SEM user group sponsored prizes for the best drawings of things seen under the microscope, in each of three schools, Bakalarr [MAP], Jarreng [MAP] and Sinchu Baliya [MAP] - one prize per year group for each school.

At Sinchu Baliya, children from Grades 5 and 6 had drawn up to three items each and the teachers had selected the ten best entries from each grade. The overall standard was very high, particularly when one considers that these children had never looked through a microscope before. We decided to give three prizes in each Grade - these are two of the six winning entries.

two of the winning entries - ants as seen under the microscope
	some of the prizes Each prize consisted of a plastic folder containing pens, pencils, coloured pencils, eraser, pencil sharpener and a notebook, together with a small 'bug box' for the younger children and a solar powered calculator for the older ones. << presentation to a winner      microscope competition April 2005 >>