“With a background in marine biology, Mike Cermak has traveled to places including the central Pacific and the Caribbean. But he still felt the need to answer bigger questions about the environment, how people treat each other and how people treat the earth. When he began bringing his program to students in Dorchester, where he worked on ways to engage youth of color in the sciences in a way that related to them. Sometimes that meant incorporating hip hop and poetry into the science classroom.” – Lowell Sun