Zoom into rocks! hair! gloves? computer chips! under a scanning electron microscope and a super strong optical microscope! Discovery the scales on hair! What does a split end look like? Identify the elements in a mystery rock using energy dispersive spectroscopy!

Ever wanted to look at something under a scanning electron microscope? Here's your chance!! Welcome to MIT's Breakerspace, a lab for undergrads to break stuff and characterize it! We'll start with a short explanation on how electron microscopes work, then you get to try your hand at imaging. P.S. Feel welcome to bring your own sample(s)! It should be small (about a cm in diameter or less), non-volatile (nothing wet!!), safe, and ideally conductive.