Fox Lane HS Gets New Microscope from Carl Zeiss Inc.

Adam Marshall and Fox Lane High School were the lucky winners of a new microscope recently donated by the Carl Zeiss company, a microscope manufacturer headquartered in Thornwood.

Karen Marshall, Adam's mother, is an employee of the company, where social responsibility is cited as a core part of its mission.

When her son's name came up in a quarterly drawing the company holds for donating their equipment, she was thrilled.

"Out of hundreds of entries my son's name was drawn so a new high end microscope could be donated on our behalf given by Carl Zeiss. The program was initiated in 2003 to give back to the communites of their employees," she said.

The Marshall family presented the microscope to the school last month.

It's not the first time the school was the lucky recipient of new equipment—another employee's daughter, Sarita Ovimeleh, was selected in 2007.

The new microscope is planned to be used to enhance classroom activities in the school's biology and forensic science classes.