North Carolina HOSA

	HOSA Impulse February 2010

North Carolina HOSA, 6358 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-6358
www.nchosa.org fcress@dpi.state.nc.us 919-807-3900

North Carolina State Leadership Conference March 25-27, 2010 Greensboro, NC

The North Carolina HOSA State Leadership Conference will be held at the Sheraton Greensboro on March 25-27, 2010. Registration Deadline is February 26, 2010. Top winners from all eight districts will be competing for the opportunity to represent North Carolina HOSA at the National HOSA Conference in Orlando Florida in June. There will be Educational Symposiums on Thursday at 11:00 AM, 1:15 PM and 2:30 PM. Medical Seminars will be available for Friday. The Health Career Expo will be open on Friday and will include exhibits from a variety of careers, health care facilities, postsecondary education and fundraising opportunities. Come and experience HOSA!

North Carolina HOSA would not be successful without the local advisors.

HOSA Scholarships

All applications for NC-HOSA scholarships must be received by February 26, 2010. Please visit the NC-HOSA web site: www.nchosa.org and refer to Chapter J. Recognition and Scholarships in the Advisor Leadership Guide found in “Publications”.

Scholarships are available through National HOSA. Please visit the National HOSA web site: http://www.hosa.org/member/scholar.html

Applications for the National HOSA scholarships are due by April 1, 2010.

Outstanding Chapter of the Month

A couple of chapters submitted information. Please refer to “Chapter Highlights for the outstanding chapters.

Global Public Service Academy for Health

The GSPA 2010 Summer Program is nearly full. There is only a short time remaining to apply. “Response to the GPSA for Health Summer Program for 2010 has been tremendous,” according to Dr. Robert Malkin, the Director of GPSA. The GPSA for Health is a four-week summer experience in the developing world for high school students interested in health careers. Modeled after the highly successful Duke University-Engineering World Health Summer Institute for college students , also directed by Dr. Malkin, this new high school program will be working with the maternity clinic in the Mayan community of Calhuitz, Guatemala. While only a few spots remain, it is not too late to apply. Applications are available at www.gpsa.us.

Great Human Race: Please Choose Ronald McDonald House of Durham as your charity of choice!

The Great Human Race is a nationwide community fundraising event for nonprofit organizations, and Ronald McDonald House is participating and needs your support!

Go out, ask individuals or businesses to sponsor you to walk or run by pledging any amount of money for you to participate in the Great Human Race. The March 27 th Triangle area race features a 5k competitive run and a 5k community walk through downtown Durham. Can’t make it? It’s okay: you can send the money that you raise to Ronald McDonald House in Durham!
Durham’s Ronald McDonald House’s goal is $3000—please help NC-HOSA’s State Service Project partner meet it!

Saturday, March 27, 2010 Rain or shine
Registration: 7:00 - 8:15 am
Opening Ceremonies: 8:15 am
Run starts: 8:30 am (earlier start time!)
Walk starts: Immediately following runners

Sport-a-Shirt: Wear your shirts on May 7, 2010

A shirt for $10 equals a night for a family at the Ronald McDonald House.
Sport a Shirt, Share a Night is celebrated as a statewide casual day in support of the children and families served by the Houses in North Carolina. Houses charge $10 per night per family, while it costs approximately $86 to accommodate these families. Sport a Shirt, Share a Night proceeds are directed toward operating expenses to make up this difference. By selling a Sport-a-Shirt Day tee shirt for $10, you help to off-set the cost for a one night stay for a family! The tee shirts and 100% of the proceeds from the sale of each shirt are directed to the House that sells it.

Thanks to Lisa Westmoreland for this information.

Lisa Westmoreland
Community Events Director
Ronald McDonald House of Durham
506 Alexander Avenue
Durham, NC 27705
Main Line: 919-286-9305
Direct Line: 919-281-1064
Fax: 919-286-7307
lisa@ronaldhousedurham.org

HOSA is an organization with approximately 107,000 members throughout the nation, and HOSA members delight in meeting and interacting with fellow HOSA members whenever they can. Unfortunately, the number of situations that allow for HOSA members from different schools, different cities, and even different states to associate with each other is limited. The lack of opportunities for different local HOSA chapters to collaborate is something that should be examined and changed.

This is the case with almost every state HOSA organization: HOSA members are generally given the opportunity to encounter HOSA members outside of their school only at Fall Leadership Conferences and various levels of competition: Districts, States, and Nationals. Most local HOSA chapters do not have the funding or time to attend the Fall Leadership Conference, so their main contact with other HOSA chapters is limited to District Leadership Conference, State Leadership Conference, and for a few lucky individuals, National Leadership Conference. And some HOSA chapters have found themselves unable to attend District or State competition at all due to lack of money from their school or county school system; for them, their contact for other HOSA chapters is almost nonexistent.

HOSA is a national student led organization that is not only available to high school students but offers continued membership throughout college. Although secondary members make up most of the organization’s 107,000 members, there are a large number of post-secondary chapters. Secondary and post-secondary members serve under the same HOSA organization, but there are a few differences between the two.

For example, secondary chapters may assemble around once a month for meetings, socials, and other HOSA business for the whole school year. Post secondary chapters double that effort by meeting twice a month. Also post secondary chapters tend to have a lot more members mainly because college campuses hold more students than high schools. These two factors allow post secondary chapters to double their HOSA efforts.

This also allows the postsecondary chapters to create their own special types of events and programs and execute them. As an example NC State HOSA is planning a “Spend the Day at State” for a local high school this semester. It will be a complete Pre-Health effort where all the interest groups of the Pre-Health club will come together and plan activities for the high schools students so that they can not only be interested in attending NCSU, but also get more information about the different health care related majors available at NCSU.

Have you ever pondered what clubs or organizations might be waiting for you after you take that first step on a college campus? Well, for many of us, we can’t always find the same clubs that we were in as a high school student. We then have to resort to finding another club that is almost as good as the one we were in. These may be almost as good, but just not the same. That is why North Carolina HOSA would like to give a round of applause to these new collegiate HOSA chapters. Would you all please help me in welcoming our new collegiate chapters for this year, which include HOSA chapters at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNCCH), and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). I would also like to you to give a big HOSA cheer for those who made these new chapters possible. Give it up for Akeem McAllister (ECSU), Warché K. Downing (UNCCH), and Adam King (UNCC). These individuals took a stand for themselves and wanted to keep the HOSA experience going by creating new chapters at their respective universities. So I was interested to know just what these fine college students wanted to get out of the HOSA experience at the collegiate level. I was enlightened when I heard back from them and I want to let you all know about what they have to say on the great thing about being a HOSA member when in college.

As the school year comes to a close, many high school students are anxiously anticipating their summer vacation. Although summer is generally associated with parties, late nights, summer love, sleeping all day and staying up all night, your summer does not have to be limited to that. If you wish to add some more meaning to your summer, continue learning throughout the year, or add activities to enhance your college application or job resume—why not spice up your summer with National HOSA Competition, a summer enrichment program, internship, or a volunteer opportunity?

The most anticipated event of summer for many HOSA members is National HOSA Competition June 23-26, 2010. The fact that this year’s National Conference is at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida, only adds to the excitement. National Conference is the best of the best. You meet HOSA members from all over the country and form lifelong bonds. At National Conference, you can participate in educational symposiums, compete at the national level, and have opportunities to tour the host city—not to mention, have fun at Disney World. So mark your calendars, perfect your events and we will see you in Florida in June!

Sometimes HOSA members forget that this organization really is student led with assistance from their dedicated and hardworking advisors. HOSA is student-led, with your state officers as well as your National HOSA Officers working hard to continue to make this a great organization for all of its members. You may ask yourself, what would it take to be a National Officer? Well, fortunately we have the inside connection.

This year North Carolina has not one, but two former State Officers serving on the National HOSA Officer Team. Adam King from Asheville, N.C. is currently our Region III Vice President, and Claire Lucas from Mooresville, N.C. is our National President Elect. The officers are currently freshmen in college: Adam attends The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Claire attends North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

2/6/2010 - VA, DA and BT - At the state and national levels, there will be an OPTION to administer a written skill (ID instruments, breed ID, ID parasites) immediately following the event orientation and written test.

2/6/2010 - BD - Teams will be allowed the OPTION of bringing their prepared materials on a laptop, running on battery power, for use during the preliminary round and debate. Electricity will NOT be provided.

2/6/2010 - OHC - Appearances before a group, page 7 - the wording has been aligned so that all three appearances have the same scrapbook requirements.

2/6/2010 - BT - Procedure II: Editorial improvements, including the addition of a step, "Untied ties at neck and waist."

8/28/2009 - Medical Photography clarification - Print photos will be used by the judges. IN ADDITION, a CD with the photos in .jpeg format MUST be turned in at the event for state AND national competition. The photos submitted on the CD-ROM may be used in state and national HOSA publications. BE SURE you bring your three photographs in PRINT AND ELECTRONIC (CD) format to state-level competitive events. If you qualify for national competition, you will need to reprint your photos and make another CD with your photos for National HOSA Competitive Events.

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