{"id":1192,"date":"2010-04-21T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:07:31","slug":"hosa-biotechnology-conference-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/hosa-biotechnology-conference-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"HOSA Biotechnology Conference 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)\u00a0Biotechnology students participated in the HOSA Spring Leadership Conference at the Doubletree Hotel from April 14 to 16.<\/p>\n<p>Our students were great  these past two days. They were polite, articulate, and full of Pueblo Pride.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1193\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HOSA-Biotechnology-Students.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1193\" title=\"HOSA Biotechnology Students\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HOSA-Biotechnology-Students.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pueblo Biotechnology Students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carlos Ramirez was elected Secondary Vice President of HOSA for the Southern region of Arizona.  We have a state officer. This position required a speech and question and answer period. He ran successfully against the current HOSA HIstorian from Sunnyside. Carlos was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Nine students attended the State Leadership Conference. Most had to be in the top 20 in the state after an online test in February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biotechnology Story<\/strong><br \/>\nIn Biotechnology, 95 students took the online test. Michael Dedrick was 5th, and Tricia Hindley was 9th. On Thursday both participated in the skills competitions. The two skills were microscopy and culturing bacteria. Today the final results were announced.<\/p>\n<p>In the Arizona State HOSA Biotechnology competition, Michael placed second, and earned a trip to Nationals (Orlando), and Tricia placed 5th.<\/p>\n<p>In the following competitions, students worked almost exclusively on their own, since these subjects were not explicitly covered in the biotech curriculum:<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery\/Brian Bishop- Medical Math<br \/>\nCynthia Lona- Human Growth and Development<br \/>\nHector Mendoza- Prepared Persuasive Speech<br \/>\nCarlos Ramirez- Epidemiology<br \/>\nPatrick Swindell, Gilberto Valenzuela, and Christian Vasquez- Creative Problem Solving Team<\/p>\n<p>Students earned 4 medals:<br \/>\nGold: Carlos Ramirez<br \/>\nSilver: Jeffery\/Brian Bishop<br \/>\nSilver: Michael Dedrick<br \/>\nSilver: Hector Mendoza<\/p>\n<p>They all qualify for Nationals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HOSA-Biotechnology-Students-Group.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1194\" title=\"HOSA Biotechnology Students Group\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HOSA-Biotechnology-Students-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HOSA-Biotechnology-Final-Practice.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1195\" title=\"HOSA Biotechnology Final Practice\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HOSA-Biotechnology-Final-Practice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)\u00a0Biotechnology students participated in the HOSA Spring Leadership Conference at the Doubletree Hotel from April 14 to 16. Our students were great these past two days. They were polite, articulate, and full of Pueblo Pride. Carlos Ramirez was elected Secondary Vice President of HOSA for the Southern region of Arizona. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/hosa-biotechnology-conference-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOSA Biotechnology Conference 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,52,139,12,164,127,152,33,136,40,134],"tags":[238],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-je","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}