Health Academy upgrades better prepare SCPS students for growing medical field
SANFORD, Fla. —Seminole County Public Schools Superintendent Serita Beamon was at Seminole High School Monday to tout the success ofSCPS’s Health Academy. The program isn’t new, but it received major renovations and upgrades, including for this new school year, that equip its students with very real and modernized medical equipment and spaces. Beamon says those…
SANFORD, Fla. —Seminole County Public Schools Superintendent Serita Beamon was at Seminole High School Monday to tout the success ofSCPS’s Health Academy.
The program isn’t new, but it received major renovations and upgrades, including for this new school year, that equip its students with very real and modernized medical equipment and spaces. Beamon says those upgrades are better preparing students for careers in the medical field.
“Our students are interested, our community needs them to be interested in those fields,” Beamon said. “We make it happen in their high school experience, and they go off, ready to contribute right from high school.”
School administrators in Seminole County say the Health Academy is just one of several specific career tracks students can take to prepare for careers in many fields. Students can achieve certifications that allow them to enter those fields, and in some cases, start making money before they graduate.
Seminole High School senior Becton Suber said the program is preparing him for a career in biomedical science.
“It’s great, because what it provides you with is premedical experience before you get into college, and before you’re doing internships,” Suber said. “And you get to work here, so when you do go into that more professional setting you already know what you’re doing, you’re more prepared for it. You know your stuff.”
