During the summer of 2012, Hitachi Inc. loaned the UW-MRSEC education group a table-top scanning electron microscope for use during education and outreach activities. Thirteen fifth-graders synthesized ZnO nanoparticles then used the SEM to examine their particles. The education group sent a summary of the activity including photographs which Hitachi used for an article about the SEM which they published in the Japanese version of the Wall Street Journal.