Wildlife & Fish Management Student Testimonials by Valerie Henderson

Instructions

172449e — 2025-04-01 15:08:04 UTC

Please share your experience in the Wildlife & Fish Management class:

Add title with your name and job
Write about how the class has impacted you and what you’ve learned. What is something you've learned through your work in this class that will help you be successful in your future?
Include photos or videos from your hands-on experiences (of you and your department doing your daily tank time tasks and describe them either in words for a picture or tell us about what you're doing while you're doing it).
Be specific about how additional supplies would allow more students to take the class next year and in future years!

Kayleigh Thorstad, Hatchery Technician

2025-04-01 18:32:08 UTC

This class has been beneficial in helping me learn about caring for fish. It has helped me put what I know about water quality and ecosystem balance into practice by allowing me to apply that knowledge through the care of live fish. It will also make an impact outside of the classroom because it will help balance Colorado's wildlife and river ecosystems when the fish are released into the wild. This has helped me learn more about wildlife which is useful to my future as I am interested in going into ecology and marine sciences. Additional supplies such as an additional tank and tank materials would allow more students to participate in the class in the future. Having all of the fish by the window as well, would allow more growth of the fish as we have noticed that the fish by the window have grown larger than the one by the door.

My Experience - Trevor Strand, IT Technician

2025-04-01 18:42:01 UTC

Wildlife & Fish Management is a really fun and knowledgeable class where I was able to learn how to take care of rainbow trout, how a fish tank works, science of nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, fish, waste reduction and it's impact. These new concepts brightened my experience of how fish thrive, but how wildlife work, and the science behind that supports their life. The most impactful thing I learned from was the waste reduction lessons, I hope to use it to encourage others to help with waste reduction and support ways how to properly do it.

If more students wish to take this class, this class should receive more tanks to house more fish, and more students can get the chance to take this fun class here at Columbine High School.

2025-04-01 18:58:31 UTC

this class has been meanful because it teaches us about wildlife

Eli Stevens, Manager

2025-04-03 18:19:31 UTC

This class has been meaningful by showing what it takes and what to do to take care of fish, and how you have to do quite a lot to take care of and keep the fish healthy. It has taught me how to work with big fish tanks with small fish, but also what the environment has for the fish and its dangers, leading them to die a lot. in a lot of other places fish thrive and can't be harmed that much.

Noah Holthaus, Hatchery Technician

2025-04-03 18:42:17 UTC

This has been meaningful to me by teaching me about certain species and their places in the ecosystem as well as what we can do to save certain species for extinction

Nathan Barnes QaQc

2025-04-03 18:53:17 UTC

this class has impacted me to show how to take care of such a large number of fish and how to treat a fish tank and messieurs the daily levels i feel like the class dose not need anything to make it better

Ian Bustos, Mitigation

2025-04-03 18:55:47 UTC

This class has been meaningful by teaching me about the importance of keeping the ecosystem balanced so that it doesn't fall apart. The fish tank is a good representation of this because if we don't take care of them and keep everything perfect they will die.

My Experience- Vicente Guerrero

2025-04-03 18:56:38 UTC

This class had made big impact on me and has taught me many things like how important it is to follow every step of cleaning the tank. This class has been a lot of fun. This picture is my daily fish count that I do. Getting additional supplies could help kids take this class next year because there will be more things they could use and having more things would mean more kids could be taking this class.

Jace Joos, H20 quality testing

2025-04-03 19:06:04 UTC

this class has helped me understand how water quality works, this will help me for the future because I am planning on having fish and multiple fish tanks in my house when I'm older. If more students want to take this class I feel like there should be more fish and fish tanks so that there will be more options of fish and also more jobs.

2025-04-03 19:09:21 UTC

James Salazar, Manager

2025-04-03 19:10:04 UTC

This class has been meaningful by helping us understand how to take care of the trout. Wildlife and fish management has taught me to be more open about animals. I have learned what it's like to be a "manager". Being a manager has taught me how to be a better leader than I am right now. I have to be able to let floaters or other jobs know what to do for the day. Its also nice because I can also just do the job myself and learn other jobs so I know what to do for future references. Additional supplies I would recommend for next year are more cleaning supplies because the tanks get dirty fast. I would also recommend another tank so other students can participate in this class.

Darcy mitigation

2025-04-03 19:11:23 UTC

this class has been meaningful because it teaches us about wild life something I have learned in this class is not to let the fish die to replace the water in the fish tank we add prime and stability to it additional supplies would allow more students to take this class next year because there would be more supplies to work with

Matthew smith-- IT Technician

2025-04-10 18:31:26 UTC

fish and wildlife helped teach me how to take care of fish and showed me everything it takes to raise trout. it also showed us our impact on wildlife and what we can do to reduce it in our own lives. i think the waste unit was the most impactful because it is something i will use in my own life and use to encourage others to reduce their waste.

Rowen Daffin: Education outreach

2025-04-10 18:36:34 UTC

The best part of this class is when guest speakers come in, which isn't something that we get in many other classes. I've learned a lot from these guest speakers and their field knowledge. I've also learned a little bit about fish and the environment in the actual class. Extra supplies such as another fish tank would be beneficial because then all the fish can be by the window, meaning they will grow better.

Lilyana Smith H2O quality

2025-04-10 18:38:31 UTC

This class has been a really cool experience. I've learned a lot about wildlife and how to protect it. I also got to learn how to care and raise fish. I learned the healthy levels of certain things in water, for example I learn proper PH level, nitrite and nitrate and chlorine. I also learn better communication skills, teamwork and collaboration. Additional supplies would allow for more student to learn the importance of protecting wildlife, as well as being able to hatch more fish to go back into the wildlife.

Tiara Romero: education outreach

2202401_3 — 2025-04-11 14:53:39 UTC

The best part of this class is the amazing hard working people that work together. As well as making sure daily task are done and by that we come in everyday and check the agenda. I've learned a lot about wildlife through are guest speaker as well with Ms, Henderson. My job is very fun I get in interview my class makes and take pictures of our adventures also experiences we have in our wildlife class.