Our *1000th* microscope! Thanks @NSF for support, Kenji Yoshino for the original design, and @Sawyer4Chris for sharing stories about students, learning, and @ncties. If you're a teacher who built one, you're one in a thousand! :) @UNC @unccollege #nced https://t.co/clEzdT2aof

Registration for #NCTIES26 is now OPEN! 🎉 Join us March 4–6, 2026, in Raleigh for our *Totally TIES* 90s-themed #EdTech conference. Secure your spot today ➡️ https://t.co/JSP1BphoY1 #NCTIES #TotallyTIES #EdTech

💜💛 Throwback to the energy of #NCTIES25! From inspiring keynotes to hands-on learning, March was pure EdTech magic. 🎉 🎥 Watch the highlight reel & get ready for #NCTIES26! #EdTech #NCed #LetTheGoodTIESRoll

📷 Pop in your best ideas—Call for Proposals is OPEN for #NCTIES26! March 4–6, 2026 | Raleigh, NC 📷 Deadline: Oct. 1, 2025 📷 https://t.co/VU7vojUPcV

In eight years, 273 K-12 educators from 61(!) NC counties built their own microscopes at NCTIES conferences. Thanks @ncties and #ncties25 attendees for a great workshop today! And thanks @NSF for supporting this! @UNC @HereAtUNC @unccollege @UNC_Biology https://t.co/i5nLOjIneR

10:15 this morning! Sheraton, 3rd floor, follow signs to Hannover, and then look for our giant sign. Can’t wait to build microscopes together! #NCTIES25

Thursday morning 10:15am workshop at #NCTIES25 … come make & take a microscope!

Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 5th grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 5th grade curriculum: Cells! Tissues! And active engagement in science! —> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <—

Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 4th grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 4th grade curriculum: Light refraction! Plant & animal structures! Fossils! Rocks! And active engagement in science! —> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <—

Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 3rd grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 3rd grade curriculum: skin! plant structures! soil components! And active engagement in science! —> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <—

Educators going to #NCTIES25 ... do you know a 2nd grade teacher? The microscope you'll build in the Thurs workshop is great for the 2nd grade curriculum: animal life cycles! Animals resembling parents! And active engagement in science! —> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <—

Going to NCTIES this week? This could be you! #NCTIES25 —> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <—

Come build your own microscope on Thursday @ncties #NCTIES25 … and tell others who aren’t on Twitter… we’ll have materials for 40 educators to make and take away 40 microscopes! —> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <—

#NCTIES25 We’ll be back to help 40 more educators build their own microscopes! Add it to your schedule at

Going to #ncties25 ? Come build a microscope (to keep!) on Thursday morning. This is a fun session – here's some feedback from previous years including my favorite comment ever. https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB #STEMeducation #nced

To add it to your NCTIES25 schedule:

You can build your own microscope in a Thurs 10:15am @ncties workshop at #ncties25 ! --> https://t.co/pRHCWBQnhB <--

If you've done the microscope-building workshop before, do you recommend it to folks attending @ncties this year? #NCTIES25 @MLRing100 @RhesiaMitchell @MINNICKNATION @jeannab @ewolfhope @ReadforCupcakes @AmandaJKight @nunnamakerc @MooreSTEMXplore @SaraBookworm @cnlewie @kmcandkc

2 weeks until we help you & your colleagues build your own microscopes at #NCTIES25 … add it to your @ncties conference schedule at this link: https://t.co/V6w1yM7iC3

Spread the news: in just 3 weeks we'll be back so YOU can build a microscope at #ncties25 in our workshop session... can't wait! Look how happy these educators are building microscopes at a previous @ncties conference! #ncties

The build-a-microscope workshop will be back for #NCTIES25 in March! Plan to come and build your own microscope to take away! This is a fun session – here's some feedback from previous years including my favorite comment ever. #NCTIES2025 #STEMeducation #nced