Students in the Academy of Health Professions and Biotechnology career and technical education (CTE) programs at North Point High School will represent Maryland in the 2025 HOSA International Leadership Conference in June. HOSA is a student-led organization for future health professionals. It works to promote health professions while encouraging middle and high school students and those in college to become leaders in the healthcare industry.

Students in HOSA Maryland, the state-based organization, first took online qualifier tests in January before advancing to the virtual state leadership conference in March.

The following are students who placed in the state competition and have been invited to represent Maryland at the HOSA International Leadership Conference this summer in Nashville.

Biotechnology

• Ti'Laisha Cooper, junior.
• Sydney Ivory, junior.

CPR/first aid

• Heaven Linton, junior.
• Alea Smothers, junior.

Medical reading

• Mabel Brantuo, junior.

Nursing assisting

• Larissa Miller, senior.
• Sydnee Smalls, senior.

Other students who placed among the Top 5 in the Maryland HOSA competition include

Emmanuel Pearson, junior, in biotechnology; juniors Renee Carr and Janae Ross in CPR/first aid; seniors Yvonne Edwards and Helen Huynh in health career display; Danna Calabag, senior, in medical spelling; and Kirestin Brown, senior, in nursing assistant.

CTE students at North Point interested in health and bioscience industries are either in the certified nursing assistant program or the biotechnology program. The nursing assistant pathway incorporates and correlates instruction in the classroom and the laboratory with planned clinical experiences in multiple health care settings while the lab-based biotechnology program introduces students to techniques used in biotechnology fields.

Instructors for certified nursing assistant and biotechnology programs at North Point are Jill Bodamer, Megan O'Rourke and Heidi Ortolano.

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