Enriching Middle schools:Project Outreach to Widen Educational opportunities for Rural students (EMPOWER) reached apporximately 120 middle school teachers in eastern North Carolina from 1997 to 2000 through training and equipment lending. Participating teachers learned to use computers and calculator-based laboratory equipment, worked with experienced teachers, and took advantage of the lending library of laboratory equipment and inquiry-based science and mathematics learning activities.

Below are activities developed by teachers in the EMPOWER program.  They are written for use with the Vernier LabPro but can be adopted to other data collection equipment.