South Dakota state HOSA secretary and Harrisburg High School HOSA president, Manaal Ali, has been chosen to represent South Dakota as a delegate to the 54th annual United States Senate Youth Program.
Goodheart-Willcox Publisher strongly believes in the HOSA mission and is honored to be a partner in educating and training today’s young people to be tomorrow’s health professionals. As a result, Goodheart-Willcox will recognize three local HOSA chapter advisors, one from each HOSA region, who have made outstanding contributions of local, regional, state and/or national significance to the promotion, development, and progress of HOSA–Future Health Professionals with an unrestricted cash award of $2,000 each.
The HOSA-Future Health Professionals announced the election of its board officers. The HOSA, Inc. Board of Directors conducted an election the 2016 Chairman, Chair-Elect, and Board Secretary.
This national competition is for all middle and high school students to come up with a mobile app idea that will creatively solve a problem in their school or community. There is no cost to enter and no coding experience or devices are needed. Winning teams will receive mobile devices, up to $20,000 for their school, and the opportunity to be coached by MIT Media Lab professionals to build their app and bring it to Google Play store. The winning students retain intellectual property rights to their app.
The Competitive Event Guidelines for 2015-2016 have now been posted at http://www.hosa.org/node/117 . Each event guideline has a box at the top indicating ‘what’s new for 2015-2016.’ This will give you an idea of the changes to expect in the event.
HOSA-Future Health Professionals welcomes a new organizational division, the Middle School Division. At the National Leadership Conference, the 2015 Delegate Assembly voted to recognize the Middle School Division as a separate entity beginning with the 2015-2016 membership year.
On July 25th, Region III Vice President, Akshar Patel attended the Healthy Mind and Body Walkathon hosted by the Three Doctors Foundation. The three doctors hosting the event were Dr. George Jenkins, Dr. Rameck Hunt, and the 2015 National Leadership Conference keynote speaker, Dr. Sampson Davis! Akshar was accompanied by two New Jersey HOSA State Officers, Sneha Rangu and Aditya Madduluri; the three members then set out to explore the coupling of health awareness and fitness.
HOSA-Future Health Professionals is pleased to share our 2015-2016 National Leadership Conference theme, Innovate, Inspire, Ignite. This theme embodies all that HOSA-Future Health Professionals is about. We are looking forward to a great year and hope to see everyone in Nashville next summer.
The Goodheart-Willcox Outstanding Service Awards recognized three local HOSA chapter advisors, one from each HOSA region who have made outstanding contributions of local, regional, state and national significance to the promotion, development, and progress of HOSA–Future Health Professionals. The award sponsor, one of HOSA’s newest partners, Goodheart-Willcox Publisher strongly believes in the HOSA mission and was honored to partner with HOSA in educating and training today’s young people to be tomorrow’s health professionals..
