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Hello, students! The year is almost over and we are now preparing for this years HOSA conference. This year the theme for HOSA is, Its in our hearts to keep yours beating. As you get ready for your HOSA event I encourage you to do your best, but most of all have fun. In this newsletter, your HOSA President and Vice President give you their views on HOSA. Also featured in this issue, you will find stories about strange things people have ingested and how their bodies reacted. If you need extra credit, Mr. Piercey is putting together baby blankets for the Infant Crisis Center. This is the last semester for our seniors and we are saying goodbye. Come see me about any special senior-send off ideas. Dont forget to wear green for St. Patricks Day! Have a wonderful and safe Spring Break,

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

What HOSA 2 is to Me

Nail Biter? Not After This Article! Toddlers + Magnets = Trouble Have a Nice Fall

Bethany Calvert Morning Reporter

Presidents Eye on HOSA: By Nicole Rodriguez

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discovered my voice, literally and metaphorically, in Biomedical Debate. I learned how to face my opponents with a professional act and acquired essential speaking and presentation skills that will follow HOSA may be an me to college. HOSA is a remarkaambiguous concept to a first year, but once you have experi- ble experience as it endows its enced HOSA for the first time, members with critical thinking you will never forget the impact skills, leadership tactics, teamwork it had on you. At least I didnt. collaboration, creativity, diversity, and vision. However to obtain the HOSA has really changed my life for the better. I have gained ultimate involvement from HOSA, confidence through HOSA as I an individual must put effort into his or her event. Competing at the state level is only the beginning of HOSA; competing in the national level is where the competition truly commences. Once you have stepped into the HOSA National Leadership conference stadium, apathy towards HOSA becomes nonexistent, and passion dominates. I advise my fellow HOSA members to take advantage of the extraordinary opportunity to dive into the unknown world of competition, leadership, and healthcare.

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What HOSA is to Me
HOSA is a competition that gives me the ability to compete against other students who share my interest in health careers. It is a chance for me to develop my skills and perform for a judge panel, against other students who are interested in the same field of medicine as I am. It builds leadership skills as well as study habits, and team working skills. It builds these skills not only in competition, but also through its fun, interactive activities. HOSA brings the entire BSMA chapter closer and is the best time for second and third years to interact with the first years. It also is the best time for the AM and PM students to interact and get to know each other. It is truly an amazing experience that I know will help me in my study of medicine.

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Nail Biter? Not After This Article!: By Bethany Calvert

Nail biting is disgusting; heres why. In todays society, we associate nail biting with anxiety in stressful situations. Its an easy habit to pick up, but not easy to put down. However, if you knew what you were chewing, you would stop immediately. The nails are at the tip of the fingers, collecting germs, and are a breeding ground for urea. Not only is this unsanitary, this is also not safe. The sensitive epithelial lining of the stomach and the esophagus will tear. The damage may lead to infection within your digestive tract. Does that make you nervous? Tap your fingers, dont bite your nails!

Toddlers + Magnets = Trouble

By: Bethany Calvert

A 3-year old little girl was taken to the emergency room in Portland, Oregon for two weeks after ingesting 37 magnetic

'Buckyballs'. These magnetic balls are not meant for childrens use. When the doctors took an x-ray of her stomach, the magnets formed a perfect circle, looking like she had swallowed a bracelet. Although these magnets may

be fun, if eaten, they will earn you a free trip to the emergency room. In 2006, the government warned against magnetic toys, because, if ingested, the magnets will fuse together and will perforate the intestines.

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Have a Nice Fall: By Bethany Calvert

A 76 year old British woman was sent to a Gastrointestinal specialist with chronic diarrhea and unexplained weight loss. The GI specialist diagnosed her with severe diverticulosis, a condition that causes inflamed pouches in the colon. The doctors then proceeded to run a scan over her stomach, but they were not expecting what they found. This woman had an odd, linear foreign body in the stomach." As the doctors did some questioning, they couldnt believe the ladys response. She had been standing at the top of her stairs and she uncapped her pen to pick at her tonsils. To be safe, she held a hand mirror to watch where the pen went. She lost her balance and stumbled down the stairs. When she righted herself, she looked all over for the pen, but she couldnt find it. Then, it hit her. She swallowed the pen. The pen managed to go down her throat and find the stomach. It was not until 25 years later that the pen was finally removed. Next time you decide to stick a foreign object down your throat, When the doctors removed the make sure you arent pen, the stomach acid had worn standing at the top of the stairs. on the plastic. However, the pen still wrote.

HOSA Quotes From Your BSMA Classmates

Ann-Marie Stowe: It was unexpectedly fun! I look forward to trying to make nationals. Mason Garza: I want to get first at nationals! Caleb Duggan: Its a good opportunity to use your mind to be competitive and to really put your interests in medicine to work. Tayla Steckel: Brandon Booth: The rewards are worth the work you put in. HOSA has been a great experience. Im going to miss it next year. HOSA is a good opportunity. Bethany Calvert: HOSA has taught me to stretch further than I thought I could; to conquer my fear, and reach out and grab the prize that awaits.

Alisha Ragon: It was a very rewarding love-hate relationship.

Its in our hearts to keep yours beating.

The Biosciences and Medicine Academy is celebrating its fifth year. The academy prides itself on challenging

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Biosciences and Medicine Academy 12777 N. Rockwell Ave Oklahoma City, OK 73142 Morning Reporter: Bethany Calvert Contributing Authors: Nicole Rodriguez (President), Drew Alexander (Vice President), and Jacie Smith (Treasurer), and Cindy Phan (Sentinel)

students with a variety of college preparatory math and science classes. In this three year program, students are able to apply their math and science skills to the real world in the Project Lead The Way courses that are geared towards the medical field. Academy teachers go above and beyond when it comes to preparing their pupils for their future college and career experience. Graduates from this academy have stated that their encounter at the Biosciences and Medicine Academy helped make their college path easier. With this positive feedback, the BSMA instructors are excited to continue on their mission in assisting their students in pursuing their future.

Empowering high school students in pursuit of educational excellence in bioscience and medical professions.

Baby Blankets
For those of you desiring to give back to the community and earn extra credit, Mr. Piercey is sewing baby blankets for the Infant Crisis Services. This organization is focused on providing infants with the best care possible. Support their mission and give a helping hand.

No baby should go hungry.