Middle/High School Health Career

Who is the target? This event is designed for high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors interested in healthcare, within Southern AHEC’s service region. 

How does it work? Each high school will have one hour in the exhibit hall to explore health career paths through engaging discussions and hands-on medical
activities. Students will also have the opportunity to:
- Learn about financial aid options.
- Meet with healthcare professionals, college health students, and instructors
Transportation funding is provided for each bus. Schools are welcome to attend both events with different groups of students.

How long does it last? Exhibitor set-up begins at 8 am, the first set of students will arrive at 9 am., and the last group is scheduled to be out by 12 noon. There are 4-time slots for the high schools.

10.30.26 Corbin, Ky - Corbin Arena
11.20.26 Somerset, Ky - Center for Rural Development

Pre-registration is required.

Nursing for Undergraduate Rural Student Experience

Next NURSE is a program for high school juniors and seniors interested in a nursing career.
This program provides resources to help students decide a nursing pathway prior to entering a collegiate program.

Southern KY AHEC partners with local hospitals and universities to provide nursing students with real-world experiences and hands-on opportunities that prepare them for the next step in their nursing careers.

Eligibility:
- Must be a high school junior or senior in one of our 15-region schools
- Must be interested in a nursing career
- Have transportation

Program Requirements: Attend bi-monthly
meetings (must attend 90%) and maintain a 3.0 GPA

Benefits: Resume Writing & Study Skills, Compassionate Care Skills, Career Development, Mentorship, Job Shadowing, and earn $200 upon completion!

Space is limited for each program. Applicants will be notified once acceptance decisions have been made.

Using beads, students will be able to create a bracelet to demonstrate a DNA sequence of a plant, animal, or human.

One look through the D.W.eyes™ and you’re under the influence. Eyewear recreates the visual distortion, loss of perception, and lack of control that impair drunken drivers.

Students explore a wide variety of health careers while engaging in interactive hands-on activities. We are limited to 10-20 campers depending on location.  For incoming freshman through senior high school students from the SOAHEC Service Region.

Using a printed, magnetic karyotype layout board and illustrations of human chromosomes, students prepare and analyze normal and abnormal human karyotypes. Identify each magnetic chromosome and its homologous pair based on size, centromere position, and banding pattern, then arrange them in standard karyotype format on the magnetic layout board.

Students will learn about the anatomy of the eye, common eye injuries, and eye diseases by using a oversized model of a eye.

In addition the use of glasses to demonstrate the different eye diseases and making an eye model to demonstrate injuries.

Students are amazed by the discovery of blood typing. Using synthetic blood students get exposure to health careers such as clinical Laboratory Technologists .

Walk through the entire human body! This larger-than-life, walk-through model of the entire human body is a wonderful way for students to experience the inner workings of various systems and individual parts of the bodies.. all at once.

 Approx. 50' long x 26' wide x 12' high
Must be in a large space such as a gym.Must be a health career related event. Can not be outside.A minimum of at least 200 students for the tour is required for us to bring the exhibit to your school.

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