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  • Engineering Cyborgs: The Gastronauts Podcast With Greg Gage
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    Engineering Cyborgs: The Gastronauts Podcast With Greg Gage
    • April 3, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Backyard Brains has just added another feature to our ever longer list of media appearances! This time, our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Greg Gage, talked for The Gastronauts, Duke University’s monthly seminar and podcast series. This seminar is being organized by researchers passionate about gut-brain matters. But when one invites the driving force behind Backyard […]
  • Backyard Brains Co-Founder Tim Marzullo on Roll With the Punches Podcast
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    Backyard Brains Co-Founder Tim Marzullo on Roll With the Punches Podcast
    • February 10, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    So you can use a device to remote control a cockroach. Or another device to control a friend’s body by hooking up their arm with your brain’s electrical activity. But can you use this same device to control their body during a box match, all from a relative safety outside the ring? This and many other […]
  • New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Fish Play Behavior (Classroom-Friendly Experiment!)
    Education
    New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Fish Play Behavior (Classroom-Friendly Experiment!)
    • July 12, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Cats and dogs aren’t the only pets fond of chasing things that run away from them. Aquarium fish do it too, as shown in our new peer-reviewed paper that came out just last week in the “Animals” journal! Out of 66 fish species observed, nearly 90% showed interest in or set out to chase moving […]
  • How the SpikerBox Revolutionized K12 STEM Education... and just what is a SpikerBox?
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    How the SpikerBox Revolutionized K12 STEM Education... and just what is a SpikerBox?
    • February 17, 2020
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    How the SpikerBox Revolutionized K12 STEM Education… and just what is a SpikerBox? Backyard Brains exists today because of a once-lofty goal: To turn a $40,000+ rack of graduate-level electronics into a $100 kit that students could use in the classroom to perform real, hands-on neuroscience experiments. A decade later, we have developed four lines of products […]
  • Though She Be But Little, She Can Hack
    Education
    Though She Be But Little, She Can Hack
    • February 11, 2020
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    What did you do with your weekends when you were 10 years old? We bet it wasn’t participate in a women-driven hackathon where you developed your own functioning neural robot! (We bet you wish you did, though.) Arushi Nath, age 10, recently participated in Elle Hacks 2020, an all-women hackathon hosted by York University […]
  • Student Project: Neurotransmitter Effectivity Part II
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    Student Project: Neurotransmitter Effectivity Part II
    • November 20, 2019
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    Continuing my Research Hi Everyone! My name is Pranav Senthilkumar and I’m a rising senior at Mission San Jose High School in California. I have previously shared my work devising a neuroprosthetic device with the help of Dr. Marzullo, and now with his excellent guidance, I am starting another major neuroscience project.
  • Public Libraries host Backyard Brains
    Education
    Public Libraries host Backyard Brains "DIY Neuroprosthetic Workshops"
    • September 30, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Bring this Experience to your Classroom! This fall, we worked with two Michigan Public Libraries to bring a “DIY Neuroprosthetics Workshop” to local communities. The workshops were designed to introduce students and interested adults to the fundamentals of neuroscience: The experience began with participants recording their first Action Potential with the Neuron SpikerBox, then seeing the […]
  • The DIY Neuroprosthetic Kit: A unique STEM experience inspired by K12 student passion for
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    The DIY Neuroprosthetic Kit: A unique STEM experience inspired by K12 student passion for "Tech that Helps"
    • September 30, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Whenever we work with K12 teachers or are in the classrooms ourselves, we are always delighted to hear about and see the enthusiasm that students have for engineering devices that help people. We like to call this “Tech that Helps.” As neuroscientists, we use lots of different tools to study, diagnose, and attempt to heal […]
  • Highschoolers use Backyard Brains tools to perform DIY Neuroscience Research at Rockefeller's Summer Neuroscience Program
    Education
    Highschoolers use Backyard Brains tools to perform DIY Neuroscience Research at Rockefeller's Summer Neuroscience Program
    • September 25, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Last summer, we shared details about how the Summer Neuroscience Program at Rockefeller helped make an impact on a group of high schoolers from different backgrounds across NYC. The Summer Neuroscience Program (SNP) is self-described as “a two-week course aimed at introducing talented and enthusiastic high school students to the brain,” but could more affectionately be described as […]
  • Education
    8th Grade Students teach and present Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering to the STEM-ED Community!
    • September 5, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Many educators we work with travel to conferences and trainings around their home states and countries, and a few of them even take students! Amy Farkas, from Riverview Michigan, (Read more about her class here) took her 8th graders this past year to a handful of conferences to bring what they’ve learned to the real […]
  • Education
    8th Grade Classroom Showcase: Students Develop Neuroprosthetics Designed to Assist Senior Citizens, Win State-Wide Awards
    • September 4, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Last school year we worked with teachers across the country to help bring real, meaningful neuroscience lessons into their classrooms. From 5th grade to university, educators and students loved learning about how the brain works, how we study the brain, and how we engineer devices that can be controlled by the brain! One educator, in particular, […]
  • Brains! 7th Grade Teacher Training at UChicago Brings Neuroscience to Middle Schoolers
    Education
    Brains! 7th Grade Teacher Training at UChicago Brings Neuroscience to Middle Schoolers
    • September 3, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    This past summer, we worked with teachers and educators during a number of workshops to help empower them to bring DIY Neuroscience to their classrooms. One workshop, hosted by one of our colleagues at University of Chicago, brought Backyard Brains tools and training to 7th grade teachers in the Chicago area. Taken from the National Center […]
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