Amador students win big at HOSA State Leadership Conference

What event did you compete in? I competed in an event called Dental Terminology and it was basically a test on different terminology that dentists use and other medical terms in the field of dentistry. After that, I took a test. Everyone from California that also decided to compete in Dental Terminology got ranked on their score, then based on that after we qualified we go to the second round of...

What event did you compete in? I competed in creative problem-solving. We were given a problem and we had to figure out a solution to solve it, and our situation was basically about how some children experience domestic violence at home. We had to come up with a solution to help kids in that situation and make it cost-efficient to able to reach those goals. Did you expect to win? We thought...

What event did you compete in? I did creative problem solving. You compete in a team; mine was with two other people. The people at the event give you a prompt, and you and your team have roughly 30 minutes to come up with a solution to it and describe it on a poster board. The best solution to the problem against other teams [wins]. Did you expect to win? To be honest, I wasn't. We were waiting ...

What event did you compete in? I competed in human growth and development which was just a written test on human growth and development and then creative problem solving where they give you a medical related issue and then you have 30 minutes to solve the problem and then 8 minutes to present it. You do this in groups of three to five. Did you expect to win? I got really proud of ourselves because ...

What event did you compete in? We competed in an event called emotional wellbeing and we went to different middle schools in our school district and gave them a presentation on the importance of the body positivity movement and beauty standards in our society. We took a survey of how much they knew about this movement before and after the presentation and completed a research document which analyze...

What event did you compete in? I did two events. I did job seeking skills and emotional well-being. Job seeking skills consisted of preparing an interview and also preparing a resume and portfolio and then presenting that in front of the judges and participating in a interview with the judges, similar to that in interview for a job. The emotional well-being challenge was kind of a long term project. It w...

What event did you compete in? I competed in behavioral health and basically wrote a test on stuff that was primarily like neuroscience and psychiatry, and AP psychiatry stuff too. Did you expect to win? I actually was not really expecting to win, or at least get first place but I thought I did really well and my reaction was just surprised at the beginning, but afterwards I was like, a lo...

What event did you compete in? I competed in epidemiology and allied health statistics. For both of these events I took an online test and it was not too bad, it was all multiple choice. Did you expect to win? I only wanted/expected to win one event, but I guess I was surprised when I got both. It was nice. My initial reaction was happy -- honestly, the most exciting part was how much peop...