Juniors and seniors from 12 area high schools gathered at Hershey Medical Center to learn about disease outbreak and to explore careers in epidemiology.
Epidemiology doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but if you were the kids Thursday, you might change your mind. They got the chance to explore things like chocolate, all in order to make them smarter.
They also learned whether having a dog actually makes you more active
It is often a simple question, but if you study the results the answers to you more than just yes or no responses. The day long seminar at the Penn State Milton Hershey Medical Center was designed to help high school students explore jobs in the public health field.
Learning about career options from getting your associate degrees to Ph.D. was one part of the seminar. Another focused on outbreak investigation in Africa, and also what's going on in PA.
“I always wanted to be a physician and now I'm looking that I'm able to change other people’s lives,” explained one student.
In all, over 100 students attended the seminars to become young disease detectives.
Epidemiology doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but if you were the kids Thursday, you might change your mind. They got the chance to explore things like chocolate, all in order to make them smarter.
They also learned whether having a dog actually makes you more active
It is often a simple question, but if you study the results the answers to you more than just yes or no responses. The day long seminar at the Penn State Milton Hershey Medical Center was designed to help high school students explore jobs in the public health field.
Learning about career options from getting your associate degrees to Ph.D. was one part of the seminar. Another focused on outbreak investigation in Africa, and also what's going on in PA.
“I always wanted to be a physician and now I'm looking that I'm able to change other people’s lives,” explained one student.
In all, over 100 students attended the seminars to become young disease detectives.