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"The Health Sciences Academy is totally different. There is only a small group of us, so we’re a close unit and get along. That makes it easier for us to focus on learning. We all learn at different paces, but it’s also so much fun what we get to learn. In the first quarter, we went down to the basement of the hospital and saw them repair hospital beds. We met patients who are undergoing radiation. We did a lot of nursing training, learning some of the training exercises that nurses have to go through. We learned hospital codes: black, green, yellow and red. Yesterday we did CPR training. We learned how to use AEDs and some first aid.
HSA is like any middle school, but everything has a health science element behind it. Instead of just an English book, it’s an English book with a health science component. We learn vocabulary and medical vocabulary, too. All of it has some time in health sciences, which I love. I want to do forensic sciences when I get older.
HSA is a different middle school, but we also spend the end of our day at Pershing. I’m a cheerleader there and I play the electric fiddle in the orchestra. I’m a Pershing student and a HSA student, and I can do both."
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