Tuesday, January 17, 2012 — High School Students, Teacher Present NASA Findings at American Astronomical Society Conference.  HILLSBORO, OR: A Glencoe High School teacher and four students presented six months' worth of science research at the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, last week. Students Tadvana Canakapalli, Subret Aryal, Megan Nishida and Tommy Nuthmann have worked with physics and astronomy teacher John Gibbs this school year to research young stellar objects (think baby stars). They used data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to study potential new stars. Their research is part of the NASA / IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, which connects high school teachers with professional scientists so they can conduct an original research project. Last summer, the team traveled to the California Institute of Technology to start the research. They've worked on it throughout the school year. Now that the team has returned from Texas, Gibbs will incorporate the research into his classroom. The program also requires him to undertake at least 12 hours of professional development at Glencoe and communities at the local, regional, and national levels, in print and in person.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: OregonLive.com, 1/16/12
www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2012/01/glencoe_
high_school_students_t.html
 

Monday, January 02, 2012 — Teen Filmmakers Kick Off Multimedia Company.  GREENWICH, CT: Surrounded by walls of green screen and engrossed in three identical MacBook chrome laptops, filmmakers Gregg Febbraio, 15, and twins Grant and Charles Khosla, 16, bantered over a table strewn with papers detailing their latest projects for potential clients in their basement studio. "It is fun to create a mood for an event by editing raw video," said Grant, a sophomore at Rye Country Day, of their work covering local fundraisers. "We try to achieve in film what local organizations can't capture in a paragraph." The teen entrepreneurs are co-owners of GCG Images, a multimedia company launched in early September that produces short documentary films for local nonprofits under the brand FUNDocs. They post their videos to their website and update a film blog regularly, commenting on everything from the Oscars to the impact of Steve Jobs on filmmaking technology. "Our goal is to not only produce cutting-edge video, but also a really strong website," said Charles, also a Rye Country Day sophomore. "We are really trying to publicize our work. The website gives us added exposure." The trio met at Stanwich School, where they experimented with professional film tools as early as fifth grade, editing their own short films using programs such as Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere. Their first foray into producing professional documentaries, however, was creating a four-minute film recap of the fourth-annual Greenwich Wiffle Ball Tournament in July in cooperation with event coordinators. Following the positive reception of their Wiffle Ball documentary, the teens sought the aid of Phillip Lohmeyer, Charles' instructor at the Greenwich Cartooning Chronicles's Cartooning Clinic, in creating GCG Images. Lohmeyer has mentored the teens through the process of launching their company and pursuing potential clients. "It's unbelievable that they are doing this on top of their normal schoolwork. This is something I could have never done in a million years at their age. They are beginning to understand what it takes to network and supporting good causes in town at the same time." The teens' long-term goals for the company include releasing additional photography and short film brands that will allow them to expand their portfolio in different mediums.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: Greenwichtime.com, 1/1/12
www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Teen-filmmakers-kick
-off-multimedia-company-2436204.php
 

Thursday, December 29, 2011 — Students Pair with Dance Company to Dance Their Souls Out.   SAN JOSE, CA: San Jose choreographer Margaret Wingrove is inducing two dozen Yerba Buena High School students to express their souls through dance. Next week, students will perform with the Margaret Wingrove Dance Company at the San Jose Stage Theater, part of the troupe's annual winter concert. Wingrove chose Yerba Buena because of its strong dance program and the chance to expand opportunities for its students, who mostly had no dance instruction before high school. They're in final rehearsals of "I Am...", choreographed by Wingrove in collaboration with the students. "It's the emotion that makes the movement," Wingrove said. That's both intimidating and inviting to teens. "You know how school is stressful, with finals and homework--in dance class, you let all your stress out," said Kaylee Pacheco, 16, a junior in her third year of dance. "We are really grateful our school has a dance class." Not all high schools do, especially schools like Yerba Buena, where 84 percent of students come from poor families. The dance program is a testament to teacher Debbie Rocha, who came to the school five years ago to offer a class that most students never got as children. Now, 95 girls and 25 boys take dance class. Last spring, Wingrove proposed teaching modern dance technique and choreography at Yerba Buena, with the chance to perform with her troupe at a downtown theater--a semester of coaching, gratis, by a professional choreographer known for her evocative and innovative style. Debbie Rocha attributes her success to building trust with her students. She has even the boys doing hula and ballet. Senior Kevin Rivera, 17, first ended up in dance because he was trying to get out of another class. "I thought it was going to be really cheesy," he said. Instead, "you get to be more free to be yourself." Many of Rocha's students have long loved dance, but their experience typically is in hip-hop or break dancing. Wingrove's choreography incorporates some of those genres. "Oh my god, I love modern," said junior Eva Romero, 17. And, she said in Rocha's class, "everyone is helpful. She doesn't make us do something we don't feel comfortable doing." "You have to throw out all your dance concepts and be willing to experiment and be out of the box," Wingrove said. "For teenagers, that's not always comfortable." But her collaboration at Yerba Buena has worked beautifully, and Wingrove, 76, has built a remarkable rapport with the students.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the San Jose Mercury News, 12/28/11
www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_19634328
 

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 — Fargo Students Create History Lab.  FARGO, ND: North High School History Club members are creating what they say is the first high school history lab in the state. For 18 months, they’ve quietly collected hundreds of items ranging from an 1855 Norwegian family Bible to a World War I gas mask to modern political campaign buttons. The goal is to eventually create a lending library of artifacts for teachers that will give future students hands-on history lessons. “We’ve gotten some cool stuff, just by word of mouth,” said Colin Kloster, North’s modern U.S. history teacher and the club’s adviser. He said the 25 club members are naturally inquisitive and “just go crazy” for the artifacts. The idea for the history lab was inspired by Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky., which started what has been called the world’s first high school-level history lab in 2006. In support of the Fargo effort, the students at Henry Clay lab even sent the North club a box of items as a starter kit for a history lab. Senior Kaia Nygard is the lab’s manager. She’s cataloging the items available, among them hundreds of newspapers, a Civilian Conservation Corps pennant, coins and currency, and a World War II-era Russian Army helmet, riddled with bullet holes after being used as a “decoy” to flush out German snipers. After the items are cataloged, Nygard said History Club members create one-page descriptions of the items that outline how they were used in the eras that they were created. Once enough items have “one-pagers,” the history lab will then be able to transition into a district-wide lending library for history. Kloster is trying to get experts from one of the local historical societies to work with the students to show them how to preserve the artifacts, many of which are cloth, leather or paper, and will become increasingly brittle and suffer damage unless properly stored and handled. “History typically is just taught in a lecture style. It doesn’t have to be that way,” Kloster said. “There’s no substitute for holding a soldier’s helmet, or holding a soldier’s uniform. It’s a more hands on style of learning.”
 
For FULL STORY, go to: Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 12/26/11
www.inforum.com/event/article/id/345269/group/News/
 

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 — Students GIVE Through Tutoring: Student-led Program Pairs Teens with Needy Elementary School Children.  FAIRFAX, VA: By giving up a few hours of freedom each weekend, local high school students are hoping to make a big difference in the academic achievement of many elementary school children in Fairfax County. A group of students from several public high schools have created a free mentoring and tutoring program as a way to help children from low-income families with school work. The program hosts multiple two-hour study sessions on Saturdays and Sundays, and is geared primarily to students in elementary school. The students-helping-students program is organized and managed by students. “We don’t only tutor. We are also inspiring them as leaders to give back [to their communities],” said Abrar Omeish, 16, a junior at Robinson Secondary School. She is a co-founder of GIVE Growth and Inspiration through Volunteering and Education, the student group leading the tutoring efforts. During tutoring sessions, tutors talk to the elementary students as a group about issues in their community such as environmental conservation and ways they can help or give back at their own schools. The program began as a collaboration of two individual free tutoring programs started by Omeish and co-founder Kevin Cao, 16, a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Each tutoring session draws about 30 to 35 elementary school students. The goal is to pair them one-on-one with high school tutors. During any given weekend GIVE’s 90 to 100 tutors help about 150 kids with homework. Although GIVE primarily tutors students from low-income homes, student volunteers said the demographics and ages of students are diverse. Omeish said, “That’s one of our major concerns. At my [tutoring] center, we have a lot of parents who may be well off [financially] but they just moved to the country and don’t understand the curriculum.” Moving forward, GIVE volunteers are filing tax forms to become an official nonprofit. They also are raising donations for side projects, including a book drive, said junior Kartik Gupta, 16, who attends Thomas Jefferson. Gupta, Cao, Omeish, and Jefferson students Saniya Suri, a junior, and Samya Jothishankar, a junior, make up GIVE’s board of directors. “[GIVE] is a rewarding experience and you really do help a student who needs help,” Gupta said. “There are some really touching stories. There are some kids who were failing and might have needed to be held back” a grade level before getting help from GIVE volunteers.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the Fairfax Times, 12/20/11
www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20111220/NEWS/712209963/-1
/high-school-students-give-through-tutoring&template=fairfaxTimes
 

Wednesday, December 07, 2011 — US High School Students Shine in Prestigious Science Competition.   WASHINGTON, DC: Twenty U.S. high school students were in Washington, D.C., this week squaring off in one of the nation’s premier science research contests. The prize: a half million dollars in college scholarship awards. These young competitors hope their innovations will make a positive difference in the world. Andrew Xu’s mathematical equations are designed to enhance the performance of Internet communications and social networking sites like Facebook. “Our project has the potential to improve the efficiency of such networks. And this is important because as networks become larger and larger, improving efficiency could mean saving costs,” said Xu, who joined 19 other high school students as finalists in the Siemens Foundation Annual Math, Science and Technology Competition in Washington. John Solder invented ways light can be used to treat people with brain injuries and disorders like Alzheimer’s. “And you have a fiber optic cable coming into the prefrontal cortex, where I was telling you disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases can occur. So what you can do is get these light sensitive channels within the neuron itself, and using the light you can stimulate those neurons and help restore the function of the brain that you lost,” said Solder. Cassee Cain and Ziyuan Liu, both 17, won top honors in the team competition, sharing a $100,000 college scholarship for their bioengineering project. They discovered how an inexpensive motion sensor and the popular X-Box 360 video gaming console can be used to improve the gait, or walking movements, of amputees. “What we are really hoping to do is to give this affordable, portable and accessible system to the public in rural areas where they don’t have access to million-dollar gait labs,” said Cain. Julia Crowley-Farenga and her teammate won third place for their research on how galaxies evolve. Julia wants to inspire more young people to follow in her footsteps: “I worked with third-grade students after school for a science project, and it is really cool to see them and hope that they will one day go into science studies in high school. So I think it is about getting science into the minds of kids at a young age.” This year's highest individual science honor and a $100,000 scholarship went to Angela Zhang for her research on how cancer cells stimulate the growth of tumors.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the Voice of America, 12/6/11
www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-High-School-Student
s-Shine-in-Prestigious-Science-Competition-135129698.html
 

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 — Occupy Davis, as Covered by High School Journalists.  DAVIS, CA: As readers learned of the pepper-spraying incident at the University of California-Davis, the student journalists at Davis Senior High School, less than a mile from the university campus, were going into action. Staff members of the award-winning Blue Devil HUB heard about it on Facebook. The next day, they saw status updates about the U.C.-Davis chancellor’s planned press conference, then used the social networking site to get organized, sending the editor in chief, a reporter, a photographer and a videographer to cover it. And they stayed for hours, capturing on video the ensuing “silent protest” by students as she left the building. The student staff members then used Facebook and YouTube to share their photographs and video with their school community – and the world. The Blue Devil HUB video of Ms. Katehi walking through a group of silent student protesters was played on the “Today Show” and “Good Morning America,” and has gotten more than 127,000 hits on YouTube to date. Student staff members posted their special issue online and distributed a print edition to the social studies and history teachers in their school, who that week used the special issue to teach about the event. Chloe Kim, the Blue Devil HUB’s editor in chief, said she and several other newspaper staff members headed over to the campus in the afternoon to cover the press conference. Only the videographer, Anna Sturla, had her school-issued press pass with her. It was enough to get her into the press conference, where she shot video alongside journalists from the mainstream media. The students interviewed student protesters while they waited for Ms. Katehi to leave the building, and watched as the protesters debated what to do when she emerged. “I actually got the sense that the student protesters were more willing to talk to us” than to professional reporters, Ms. Kim said. Finally, the protesters decided to line the walkway and sit silently as Ms. Katehi walked through the group. Ms. Sturla was in position to shoot video of the “silent walk.” That evening, the staff members gathered at Ms. Sturla’s house, transcribing notes, editing photos and video and pulling together a story. Staff members have received enthusiastic feedback from other students as well, many of whom are applying to the U.C. system for college and are concerned, Ms. Kim said, about rising tuition and about student rights on campus. And the experience has changed the way the newspaper staff members operate. Ms. Kim said that two print reporters have been reassigned to the Web site, and the staff members are now posting more content, with greater frequency, online than they were previously.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the New York Times Education blog, 12/5/11
learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/occupy-davis-as-c
overed-by-high-school-journalists/
 

Monday, November 28, 2011 — Tweeting Kansas Teen Gets Apology from Gov. Brownback, Her Following Soars.   SHAWNEE, KS: A Kansas teen who refused to apologize to Gov. Sam Brownback for an insulting tweet got an apology today from the governor himself for his staff’s “over-reaction.” An unpleasant tweet by Emma Sullivan, 18, was flagged by Brownback’s staff last week. The teen was told by her principal at Shawnee Mission East High School to apologize, but she refused. The national brouhaha has led to her Twitter following soar from 60 to more than 10,000. “My staff over-reacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize. Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms,” Brownback said in a statement. Sullivan, however, was disappointed that the governor’s office didn’t contact her directly and issue a broader apology. “My school is owed an apology because his staff put pressure on our school and I don’t think that’s appropriate,” she said. “I think that of course their apology is trying to cover up their negative actions. Just because you say you support free speech doesn’t mean you support it. Saying sorry doesn’t mean it goes away.” Confronted with a stubborn teenager who insisted on her right to free speech, the school district today dropped its request that Sullivan write an apology and said it will leave that decision up to her, denying accusations that it was stifling her freedom of speech. The trouble began last Monday when she tweeted from a youth event at which Brownback gave a speech. The unlikely matchup sparked national debate and heated criticism. “Speaking as a taxpayer, I’m more than a little annoyed that my government has cut funding for the arts and other programs, but thinks it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars to have the governor’s office troll the Twitter feeds of high school kids to make sure they’re not saying anything mean about him,” wrote Alex Knapp, social media editor at Forbes. “I’m also annoyed that the schools think it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars to punish students for what they say on their private Twitter feeds.” A blog post from ThinkProgress states, “It’s troubling that Brownback’s staff is so thin skinned that they felt the need to call down the government’s wrath on a high school student who had the audacity to criticize the governor. There’s no question that the high school principal violated Sullivan’s First Amendment rights. Although public school students’ right to free speech is not unlimited, schools are generally only allowed to discipline students for speech that is disruptive to the school’s learning environment.”
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the ABC News blog, 11/28/11
abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/tweeting-kansas-t
een-wont-apologize-to-gov-her-following-soars/
 

Sunday, November 20, 2011 — Students Envision Big Projects On a Small Scale at Nanotech Event.   ALBANY, NY: Dozens of high school students have seen the future and it is very small. The students showed off what their robots could do, ran demonstrations of 3-D computer visualizations and displayed research on nanofluids at the first-ever Capital Region Nanotechnology Showcase at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's nanotech complex at the University at Albany. It was sponsored by the college and the Times Union's Classroom Enrichment Program during a monthlong series of events called NANOvember. This clearly was no place for slackers. "We spent lots of late nights and many weekends in the robotics lab at school," said Jeff Carminati, a senior at Ballston Spa High School. He and his teammates worked countless hours during a six-week competition to build a robot they nicknamed Rosie. Its retractable arm grasped and moved inflatable pool rings as part of a demonstration. They also pitched in to raise about $10,000 to build the chain-driven apparatus, powered by a 12-volt marine battery and steered with computer game joysticks. "You have to be really committed to this," said Ryan Gifford, a Ballston Spa senior. He and Carminati showed off a tiny gyroscope the size of a quarter that controls the movement of Rosie's mechanical arm. Students from Tech Valley gave a PowerPoint presentation and talked about dynamic new nano applications in water filters, sunscreens, tennis balls, car bumpers, glass coatings and dental bonds. They spoke of glucose-powered heart pacemakers and running sneakers that will one day convert jogging into electricity that can be stored and used to power an iPod after a run. Several students buttonholed nano college administrators to ask about internship opportunities. "Nano is a big part of 3-D computer animation," said James Russell, a senior at Colonie High and member of the Team 250, a robotics club, which hopes to work in the video game industry. He demonstrated a 3-D animated video with a scenario that might not be too farfetched. A baseball player whose pitching arm was amputated after a car accident was fitted with a new, nano-powered robotic prosthetic that allowed him to pitch again.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the Albany Times Union, 11/19/11
www.timesunion.com/local/article/Students-envision-a-fu
ture-this-small-2278095.php
 

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 — Students Advance in Science Competition and Publish Theoretical Physics Study.  INDIANAPOLIS, IN: On Nov. 18-19, three suburban Indianapolis high school students will present physics research they conducted over the summer in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as they compete against teams from 12 other states in regional finals of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. In addition to their oral and poster presentations for the Siemens Competition, the students co-authored a paper, "Dynamics, Disorder Effects, and PT-Symmetry Breaking in Waveguide Lattices With Localized Eigenstates," in the peer reviewed Physical Review A. It is rare that high school students are among the co-authors of studies published in a top-tier professional physics journal. Winners of Siemens regional finals will compete in the national finals in Washington, D.C., next month. Theja Bhamidipati, Vaibhav Vavilala and Harsha Vemuri, juniors at Carmel High School, are mentored by IUPUI assistant professor of physics Yogesh Joglekar, Ph.D. At IUPUI, the teens studied specific properties of light in channels smaller than the width of a human hair in research that one day may contribute to advances in fiber optics. Explaining the theoretical physics problems they tackled in simplified lay terms, mentor Joglekar likens it to an investigation of light beaming down parallel channels or highway lanes. The students devised computer programs to determine how the light moved down the freeway lanes, predicting how the light changed after it traveled on a freeway with no on or off ramps, and what would happen if entrance and exit ramps existed that permitted amplification or absorption of light. Each of the three students explored a specific problem focusing on what would happen to the light beam if there was an impurity in the lane, how light spread between lanes and what would be the result of absorption of light. "We enjoyed working together initially as well as splitting up to work on three separate problems," said Vavilala, who, like his teammates, had only one year of high school physics before embarking on the IUPUI summer project. The high school students, have contemplated science careers since elementary school. They became friends as preschoolers. "All along the way, Professor Joglekar helped us understand the results we got and made us think about them," Vemuri said. "Learning about fundamental laws of physics is fun, and using them to solve problems is even better," Bhamidipati said.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: PhysOrg.com, 11/15/11
www.physorg.com/wire-news/82812918/students-advance-in-
science-competition-and-publish-theoretical.html
 

Monday, November 14, 2011 — Patent Pending: Utah Students Invent New Way of Making Fuel.  SALT LAKE CITY, UT: West High School students David Larkin and Andy Law have apparently invented a new way of making fuel, and they've applied for a patent. If the patent comes through and the process pans out, the two seniors may have a real moneymaker and a solid contribution to the world's energy needs. The process starts at the Dragon Diner, a Chinese restaurant in Holladay owned by Law's father. He's donating leftover cooking oil to the students' research efforts. "Used vegetable oil is cheaper than new vegetable oil," Andy Law said. "So it'll make your biodiesel cheaper." Larkin and Law are making biodiesel fuel by mixing the used cooking oil with methanol, and with a chemical called potassium hydroxide. There's nothing new in that — it's a common approach to making biofuels. But the two students came up with a different way of getting all the ingredients to mix and react. Instead of using heat energy to cook the ingredients, they force the mixture through a tiny tube at room temperature. The tube's inside diameter is less than the thickness of a human hair. "Since the tube is so small in diameter," Larkin said, "it causes the particles basically to collide and react. So it's basically catalyzing the reaction through that small tube, without heat." "If you use a lot of biodiesel on a large scale," Law said, "that would save you quite a bit of money." The students also came up with a new way to extract waste glycerol from the fuel much more quickly than when done with conventional processes. When the two took their idea on the road to science fairs, they kept hearing a certain question. The international judges were asking whether or not they had filed a patent yet--an indication the judges really believed in the project's viability. Larkin and Law have even figured out how to pack their biofuel set-up into a Tupperware box with a lid that doubles as a solar panel. It's perfect for whipping up a batch of diesel fuel in a Third World country, where there may be limited access to electricity. They've started a company to market the package. Larkin and Law are co-owners of Bio-Me Innovations LLC.
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the Deseret News, 11/13/11
www.deseretnews.com/article/700197654/Patent-pending-2-
Two-West-High-students-invent-new-way-of-making-fuel.html
 

Wednesday, November 09, 2011 — Students Try to Ban Plastic Bags in Hailey, Idaho.   HAILEY, ID: High school students in Hailey, Idaho, lost their bid to ban plastic grocery bags, but say they aren't giving up. The ballot measure, promoted by the Wood River High School Environment Club, gained only 620 votes in Tuesday's voting; 864 residents voted against the proposed ban. "Even though this is a disappointing loss, we're going to try to keep our heads up, and maybe go directly up to Ketchum, and try to do it there," high school junior Lex Shapiro said. The student-led ballot initiative met with big-spending resistance from the plastic bag industry, notably Hilex Poly, which operates a plastic bag recycling and manufacturing plant in nearby Jerome. The company, which has waged similar fights around the country, launched a local "Bag the Ban" website, hired a lobbying firm and took out television, radio and newspaper advertisements, warning that 125 jobs at the Jerome plant could be jeopardized if the ban were adopted. Opponents of the proposed ban argued that eliminating plastic bags could raise grocery prices and lead to even bigger landfill problems with paper bags. Students responded with their own low-budget campaign, including an opinion piece in the Idaho Business Review. "We began researching the harmful effects of single use plastic. The facts blew us away; 60,000 plastic bags are used in one second! From that point on the problems associated with the throw-away culture that our valley, like the rest of the world, has adopted were painfully obvious," they wrote, comparing their battle with Hilex Poly to "the story of David and Goliath." The 42% vote they got in Hailey, students admit, was discouraging. "I feel like we did pretty much everything in our power that we could have done. We took all our weekends, spent all our after-school time," Shapiro said. But they wonder: What if they had gotten an earlier start? In nearby Ketchum, Shapiro said, "we already have a bunch of supporters," and one grocery store there is already bag-free. "So that's a head start.... We just need more time to educate people and get it out there."
 
For FULL STORY, go to: The Los Angeles Times, 11/9/11
latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/hailey-idaho
-plastic-bag-ban.html
 

Monday, November 07, 2011 — ‘Body Shop' Seals High School Students' Plans to Seek Degrees in Health Care.   TERRE HAUTE, IN: As dozens of high school students, who aspire to careers in health care, filed into an Indiana State University laboratory, some appeared apprehensive about the rare opportunity that awaited them. Most, however, were bursting with anticipation. As soon as the teenagers huddled around lab tables for an experience normally reserved for graduate-level college students, any remaining apprehension faded. The level of chatter made the lab sound like a high school cafeteria at the peak of lunch hour. "We were touching everything we could. We handled everything from the spleen to the liver, lungs and muscles on the leg of an actual cadaver that were still attached," said Cody Kuiper, a senior at Seeger High School. Kuiper was among about 70 students who, during the course of two half-day sessions, held and touched actual human organs, muscles and tissues alongside more familiar models normally used in teaching. “It's different than what you have at high school. You see more, especially taking an anatomy class," said Abigale Keeling, a senior at Fountain Central High School. Both Kuiper, who plans a career in physical therapy, and Keeling, who wants to become a nurse, said the experience confirmed for them that they want to pursue a career in health care. "It helps me make the right move," Keeling said. "I've seen ... how everything works." In addition to 45-minute sessions in the anatomy lab, the high school students learned from Indiana State faculty members and students and IU medical students about diagnosis and treatment of such illnesses and injuries as diabetes. This year was the first for the "Body Shop" program and Indiana State's investment in new facilities such as the cadaver lab, and new programs that have increased the breadth of its nursing and allied health faculty made it possible. Rita Keeling, health career teacher in Fountain and Warren counties, said the program was the first opportunity the students had had to experience a cadaver lab and learn directly from university faculty members and graduate students. "The more hands-on you can give the high school students, the better opportunity they have to become interested in pursuing a post-secondary education," she said. "I love bringing the students to ISU so they can see the innovative things they are doing here and find the field that interests them."
 
For FULL STORY, go to: the ISU Newsroom, 11/7/11
www.indstate.edu/news/news.php?newsid=2935