Peleg gave a public talk titled “Fireflies' Fantasia: Illuminating the Mysteries of Living Lights in Colorado and Beyond” at the Little Creatures Insect Exhibit at Boulder Public Library https://www.coolboulder.org/littlecreatures 

Graduate student, Owen Martin, speaking at the Firefly Tailgate in Boulder at Sawhill Ponds, Boulder

Featured in a SciGirls TV episode (PBS) on our work with synchronous fireflies in Congaree National Park, SC, USA (aired May 2023) https://www.pbs.org/video/flashy-fireflies-wh6aeq/ 

Skype a Scientist is a nonprofit educational organization based in Willimantic, Connecticut that enables scientists to video conference with students in classrooms. Peleg engaged with K-12 students via programs like “Skype with a Scientist” (sessions with students in Costa Rica, Israel, and the USA), and mentoring activities, e.g. ATHENA By WiSTEM Summer Program and the ProjectCS Girls Competition.

​Science News for Students is an award-winning online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate, topical science news to learners, parents and educators. Peleg was featured as a Comic Strip character at Science News for Students on “How bees play telephone to form a swarm”:

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https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/bees-play-telephone-swarm-pheromones-comic

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Peleg and lab members (Owen Martin, Nolan Bonnie, Nicholas Barendregt) participated in a public viewing event at Congraee National Park, home to synchronous species Photuris frontalis (2024)

Peleg gave a TEDxCU talk about firefly flash synchronization: "For millions of years, fireflies have spoken to each other with their dance of light, a romantic morse code that’s brightened our natural spaces. In this visual talk, scientist Orit Peleg takes us into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to crack the code of flash synchronization, delving into the beauty and complexity of this mesmerizing choreography."

https://www.ted.com/talks/orit_peleg_how_fireflies_communicate?subtitle=en

Peleg gave a public talk at Ignite-Boulder. It is a night of presentations on a variety of topics – with a twist. Each presentation has 20 slides, that automatically advance after 15 seconds. It is a worldwide movement, and Boulder hosts the largest in the world every 2 or 3 months: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0CBmlTmZs&ab_channel=igniteboulde

Two local high school students, Charlotte Gorgemans and April Tong, have been volunteering regularly for over two years in the Peleg Lab. The students' work with the lab has led them to submit projects to several science fairs to great success, and has benefited the lab's research through their involvement and curiosity:

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https://www.colorado.edu/cs/2021/07/08/it-takes-hive-community-volunteers-honeybee-research