Preston and Steve, 93.3 WMMR

On December 7, 2016, BioEYES Outreach Educator Tracy Nelson was featured on the Preston & Steve morning radio show (93.3, WMMR) as part of the "Not Your Average Listener" contest, which features listeners of the show who have unique jobs and/or talents. She talked about BioEYES and her unique job of working with zebrafish and students in the Philadelphia area, and won the contest!

El Servicio de Información y Noticias Científicas

"'Ahora sé lo que es ser un científico'. Esta es una de las afirmaciones realizadas por uno de los 20.000 niños menores de 12 años que participaron en un programa dentro del proyecto BioEYES, gracias al cual alumnos de EE UU han criado durante una semana a peces cebra desde su estadio embrionario."

Karen Kreeger, Penn Medicine News Blog

"'We are a community hub that provides hands-on curriculum to our neighborhood schools,' Shuda said. 'Our recipe for teacher professional development, coupled with co-teaching in the classroom serves as a model for sustainability, but also long-term impact during a teacher's career. BioEYES is also often the students' first exposure to live science. Our structure allows for over 3,000 kids a year to have this experience.'"

Heather A. Davis, Penn Current

"This spring, the BioEYES program celebrates a major milestone: It will serve its 100,000th student. That means in the 14 years since BioEYES began, 100,000 elementary, middle, and high school students from Philadelphia and four other sites have been exposed to innovative, hands-on lessons that get them excited about and interested in science. That’s a lot of students. And that’s a lot of zebrafish."

Libby Mitchell, University of Utah Health Care

"In the classroom at Meadowlark, it was easy to see the process at work. Neugebauer asked the class what they think the small black dots on the larvae may be. Some guess gills. Some guess guts. Not one guess is discounted, but students are asked to explain the reasoning behind their guess. Finally, a student posits the dots may be the start of the stripes it will have as an adult. An answer that can be backed up with observable facts is found!"

Zachary Carey, City Springs EMS teacher writing for Baltimore Curriculum Project News

"These organizations allowed students to participate in enriching activities, including water testing, micro-invertebrate collection and observation, identifying and removing invasive species, hiking through the woods on a scavenger hunt, and of course, releasing our trout. The variety of activities provided an opportunity for students to stay engaged and find something uniquely interesting to them."

Carnegie Institution for Science

"The General Motors Corporation is presenting a $5,000.00 award to Carnegie’s BioEYES K-12 educational program on September 11, 2014, to deliver a two-week environmental curriculum, Your Watershed, Your Backyard. The program, established in 2008, is one of several BioEYES programs using live zebrafish in a hands-on approach to learning and focuses on local watersheds, pollution, and the Chesapeake Bay."

Monash College via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

"'During activities such as BioEYES, I have regularly used scientific materials and equipment such as the microscope, which has enabled me to apply my knowledge to perform experiments and research. It was amazing to see the embryos grow in front of my eyes – I felt like a mother watching her babies grow up! I want to study pharmacy at Monash one day so programs such as BioEYES really help to develop the skills I need to achieve my dreams.'"

Lynn Petrinjak, NSTA Reports via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

"Some teachers are partnering with scientists to create authentic research experiences to build student interest in science and increase their own content knowledge. While some of these partnerships arise informally, initiatives like BioEYES... help match scientists and teachers while providing professional development (PD) and more."

Notre Dame Science, Department of Physics

"Over the past five years, BioEYES, a community outreach program of the Notre Dame extended Research Community (NDeRC), has introduced more than 12,750 local K-12 students to scientific research and biology concepts using zebrafish. The program, which has cooperated with 85 teachers in 41 schools, reached the end of its grant funding this year, but will resume for middle school students next semester with support from the College of Science and the departments of Physics and Biology."

Lara D. Hutson, Jennifer O. Liang, Michael A. Pickart, Chris Pierret, and Henry G. Tomasciewicz; Zebrafish, Special Issue: Zebrafish in Education

The guest editors of this special issue of Zebrafish included BioEYES co-founder Dr. Jamie Shuda.

"When researchers converged on Madison this year at the 10th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, a number of them, along with a contingent of teachers, administrators, and students, met over the course of two sessions of the 'Zebrafish in Education' Workshop. The zebrafish system has great potential to impact learning in a wide range of fields, including, but not limited to, developmental biology, genetics, evolutionary biology, toxicology, environmental science, disease mechanisms, drug development, and genetic engineering. Many groups throughout the world have begun using zebrafish in a wide variety of ways to facilitate K–12 and undergraduate learning."

Marsha E. Lucas, The Society for Developmental Biology

“The partnership of a scientist and an educator made BioEYES a success. Shuda was able to take Farber’s many great ideas, and then hone in on those that were actually doable for a classroom of 30 students. She studied the educational standards for different age groups and designed the BioEYES program around them. In an interview prior to the SDB meeting she said her focus was ‘how can we take something that’s already suppose to be taught, but do it in a way that’s very student centered, that actually gets them to explore science, and allows the teachers to actually have fun teaching these concepts.’ The program gets students to think like a scientist while at the same time reinforces basic reading, writing, and math skills.”

Larry Perl, Baltimore Sun

"'Our fish will be leaving the building,' came the announcement over the public address system at Hampden Elementary/Middle School on May 3. Minutes later, 15 seventh-graders would rush 204 trout tykes in an ice cooler full of water to Roland Park to be released into the Stony Run. The student body had one last opportunity to visit the tiny rainbow trout that were grown from hatched eggs in the school's science lab starting early this year."

Andrea Appleton, Baltimore City Paper

"On a recent Friday morning, a class of fifth-graders at Coldstream Park Elementary were not so much attentive as enthralled. Some students oohed and aaahed over a microscope where an anesthetized zebrafish larva lay, its heart visibly beating through its transparent body. Others hunkered over petri dishes, murmuring and pointing."