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Area students "explore" Garden City Community College
Published 11/19/2009 in Local News
By MONICA SPRINGER
High school students Giseelle Arredondo, Nathan Gonzalez and Ruby Tello stood in front of a robotic patient simulator, which mimic symptoms and conditions experienced by live medical patients, Wednesday morning at Garden City Community College.
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Brad Nading/Telegram Pamela Gonzalez, right, and Nancy Renteria try their hand curling a manequin's hair into a specific style Wednesday in the cosmotology department during Garden City Community College's Exploration Day. Both are Hugoton High School seniors.
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Brad Nading/Telegram Jose Anguiano, left, and Cody Morales work on dismantling an engine Wednesday during a hands-on automotive session at Garden City Community College's Exploration Day. Anguiano is a senior at Deerfield High School and Morales is a junior at Sublette.
Roxanna Rosenlund, who works as an emergency medical technician in Scott County, told students the patient, or simulator, was unconscious and not doing well. The patient had to be intubated, Rosenlund said.
Students inserted scopes and tubes into the simulator, being careful not to touch the vocal chords, to get it breathing again.
More than 400 students attended GCCC's Exploration Day, an annual event GCCC sets aside to show high school seniors and juniors some of the education and training they'll need to enter successful career fields of the 21st Century.
Among programs hosting students across the campus were agriculture; animal science; automotive technology; cosmetology; business, including computers and information technology; criminal justice; fire science; industrial technology; John Deere technology, nursing and emergency medical services technology.
Others include art; drama; early childhood education; journalism, including print and broadcast components; history; psychology; sociology; welding; and music, including band, string, piano and string components.
Arredondo, a junior at Sublette High School, and Gonzalez and Tello, seniors at Holcomb High School, said they all are interested in the criminal justice field in the future. They said they liked lifting fingerprints on Wednesday morning.
"Television makes it look easy," Gonzales said.
Arredondo said it's more difficult to lift fingerprints off of surfaces such as glass. Students lifted fingerprints off of pieces of paper, a phone and a glass jar.
While a group of students spoke to a group of Emergency Medical Technicians, the EMTs told the students what to expect out of the job.
Natasha Oglesby and Brad Schiffelbein, both EMTs in Finney County, told high school students that people go into the profession to care for patients.
"I love anything having to do with patient care," Oglesby said. "You do this because you love it."
Oglesby and Schiffelbein hooked students up to a machine that monitors the heart, then printed out a report and gave it to each participant.
The students that were hooked up to the heart monitor had a healthy heart, the report said.
Lenora Cook, dean of Technical Education at GCCC, said Exploration Day serves two purposes: It lets students explore the career field they are interested in, and it draws students to the college.
"We get to show what we have here," Cook said.
Exploration Day is also a chance for GCCC teachers to meet future students and recruit, Cook said.
Participating high schools included Garden City, Holcomb, Ashland, Cimarron, Deerfield, Greeley County, Healy, Hugoton, Ingalls, Jetmore, Lakin, Moscow, Sublette, Quinter, South Gray High School in Gray County, Wheatland High School in Gove County and Associated Youth Services of Garden City.
Students from the GCCC Adult Learning Center, which offers GED high school equivalency and English as a Second Language programs, and the Ingalls-based High Plains Home Education Association also attended.
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