Port Washington High School shares the exciting ways students are using the eRack in the classroom.
Port Washington High School in Port Washington, Wisconsin, was awarded an eRack in fall of 2016 after submitting a proposal for an eRack giveaway sponsored by Aquaneering. The eRack will be used as a cornerstone of research and exploration for the STEM curriculum in Project Lead The Way (PLTW) classes, as well as Advance Placement Environmental Science and other traditional courses, such as chemistry and biology.
A new science wing to the high school is currently under construction with a separate room designated for the eRack and an aquaponics tank.
Port Washington High School students using the eRack
Students will have the opportunity to work with zebrafish to study heart and genetic diseases along with other research topics.
The eRack has proven itself to be an valuable learning tool right from the beginning. As soon as the system was up and running, students were excited about observing and participating in new developments in the zebrafish, and they peppered teachers with questions about the curriculum, research, and zebrafish husbandry. Read More
eRack is tanked and stocked with fish
Keynote Speaker at Zebrafish Husbandry Workshop:
Dr. Richard Borowsky of New York University
Dr. Richard Borowsky
Aquaneering is honored to have Dr. Richard Borowsky as the keynote speaker at this year's Zebrafish Husbandry Workshop. As the preeminent researcher in the evolutionary biology of Mexican cavefish, Dr. Borowsky will be speaking on the history and benefits of the cavefish as a research model.
Dr. Borowsky is a professor of biology at New York University, an elected Fellow of the Explorers Club, and currently heads the Cave Biology Research Group at NYU. He has organized numerous field research and caving expeditions in Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, and Honduras, and authored over sixty scientific publications on evolutionary genetics and genomics, as well as writing on biology for the lay public.
Dr. Borowsky received his BA from Queens College, CUNY and his Ph.D. in biology from Yale University.
On March 23, Aquaneering will be with the Lab Animal Medicine Club at Ontario Veterinary College in spirit when we sponsor their lunch talk with Dr. Chereen Collymore who will speak on the use of zebrafish in research and the veterinarians' role.
