{"id":243090,"date":"2012-09-18T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/school-prepares-students-for-careers-in-medicine-tech\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T10:13:47","slug":"school-prepares-students-for-careers-in-medicine-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/microbiology\/school-prepares-students-for-careers-in-medicine-tech.php","title":{"rendered":"School prepares students for careers in medicine, tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>by Elizabeth  Baier, Minnesota Public Radio  <\/p>\n<p>    September 18, 2012  <\/p>\n<p>            Audio player code:            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"minnesota_general_features_2012_09_17_stemschool_20120917_64s_player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"319\" height=\"83\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/www_publicradio\/tools\/media_player\/syndicate.php?name=minnesota\/general\/features\/2012\/09\/17\/stemschool_20120917_64\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>          <\/p>\n<p>    ROCHESTER, Minn.  Zakaria Mahamed wants to go to college and    become a pediatrician, training he hopes will someday land him    at the Mayo Clinic.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"When I see my family doctor, it makes me feel like I could be    there one day,\" he said. \"I could help these kids, I could find    new cures for diseases, I can make a difference in my    community.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    But first, Mahamed has to make it through high school. The 11th    grader thinks his chances of doing so are much better at the    STEM Academy in Rochester, a charter school that aims to    prepare immigrant and minority students for fields such as    microbiology, nursing and engineering.  <\/p>\n<p>    Inside the STEM Academy, teenage girls wear colorful hijabs on    their heads and groups of boys speak Somali as they make their    way to science, engineering and math classes. Nearly all of the    60 students are Somali-American.  <\/p>\n<p>    Some are betting the school, in its second year, will help    students who struggle in traditional schools find careers to    build successful futures.  <\/p>\n<p>    Mahamed is among them. Born in Rochester to Somali parents, he    finished ninth grade at one of Rochester's traditional high    schools before transferring to the math and science-focused    school.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"When you're in a regular big school that doesn't have a small    environment, everything is like you don't have enough time to    talk and you'll never meet anybody,\" he said. \"But here, you'll    talk to everybody, you know everybody, everyone knows you, you    know them.\"  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2012\/09\/18\/education\/rochester-school-prepares-students-for-med-tech-careers\/?refid=0\" title=\"School prepares students for careers in medicine, tech\">School prepares students for careers in medicine, tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> by Elizabeth Baier, Minnesota Public Radio September 18, 2012 Audio player code: ROCHESTER, Minn. Zakaria Mahamed wants to go to college and become a pediatrician, training he hopes will someday land him at the Mayo Clinic.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/microbiology\/school-prepares-students-for-careers-in-medicine-tech.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microbiology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}