students self selected after their ninth grade year they get to pick from five different career focused academies and ours is focused on health and the medical field so our goal is to prepare students for either further always like raised me to try to look out for people especially like my brothers and sisters and as i've done that like as elementary kid i kind of looked out for my friends too and i was like i really want to help out people and something happened to me in my eighth grade when i took algebra in middle school my sixth experience my eighth grade teacher her best friend's daughter got diagnosed with a brain tumor and i found out like she only had a year to live and she was just a sixty six year old in elementary school or preschool and i was like that's really sad to hear and then i developed like a program at my school that only lasted that year just a fundraiser and we collected money during homeroom to get different and also likely change for people if they would like to donate which is the name of the girl who were brain tumor and then we use that money to get a giant balloon bouquet for her and also use another portion of that money to just give to her family i mean life changing experience for you in terms of  what actually got me into the mindset of wanting to be in the health field because my family they do have a lot like things going on my diabetes in canada and things like that and i  support there are teachers and this program at school becomes their form of support and motivation the students they have cohorts by grade level that they kind of move through their  they move throughout their day like with the same group of people so they're around their peers for the majority of their day and all of the teachers work really closely together and we meet if not a daily at least a weekly basis and discuss  so and so is falling behind or not up to speed in my class and then we all work together as a team of teachers to find the right support and get that student the support they need so my thing is getting folks that might not want to apply to this things like that so that's really helpful and as a senior in high school the academy provides us with a class called can you see ology and physiology as it was that like location and function of the different parts of your body and gives deeper into it and i just parts your body but the things that make up different parts your body ok and so far we've done and that classes go over basics right now we're going back into chemistry so we're going into what makes up like the great and all the things that does for us so eating right having calories not eating too much calories are also you compared to how much you can burn and how much you don't burn so well in food yeah we love  you're eating right and you can affect others around you and be like i should do that too and they can ask you why are you eating a salad when you can have like a bag of chips and then they could be like oh well salad is healthy and it actually taste pretty good too fresh salad  yeah it's an issue but it shouldn't be and so i want people to realize that it doesn't have to be that they can do whatever they want to they set their mind to it and for me as a going to middle school i had like a lot of  for changing this kind of experiences and i took french during the school and my teacher she emphasized like oh you guys might think french is contradict us when are you going to use but then she emphasized that taking the opportunity to grab as much education as you can opens set before we speak i mean i still talk to folks that still hold that they want to do what would you say to someone about not nor what they want to do is find their passion i would say that opportunities to learn about what you're really into for me originally like when i was younger i kind of wanted to design video games but then as life went on i experienced different opportunities to disserve other people especially like do programs like our school and various services that we've done i've wanted to change and in my changes have kind of strayed me away from designing video games to helping people like being a dare for them in a lot of things that we do as part of our program and also outside of the program as well for example when i was participating in a summer camp last this past summer it was a contra costa so summer camp program we to skills that they emphasized us to pay attention and kind of grow in as much as we can while we can was technology and being used to using technology so i would have his eyes to our viewers that medical education is are very expensive anywhere between one hundred one hundred twenty five thousand dollars something i'm so here looking at two hundred thousand dollars worth of debt i implore all folks watching this program to understand that our to be i want them to have a choice of given the choice we hear about educational programs in support of educational programs and again we have these big thing about how we're going to pay for college and i will say to you we're going to because other people aren't doing something doesn't mean that you have to not do it either you should do what you want to do and be an example to others to follow your passion so for me a little bit more about the model a normal day move together throughout their classes and one thing that the teachers do the local boards teachers do is create integrated projects so their multi disciplinary students who are in the biomedical science class will get some information in that class and then come to english and learn something like even though it's focused on english and might be reading or analyzing a text it has to do with what they were just studying in their science class and then they might take that to their world history class for them they're learning the history behind whatever that topic is and at the end of the quarter put together some type of demonstration where they get to practice their work ready skills  collaboration on a project or presentation skills using technology incorporating that into their presentation so they get to work on all these different things in terms of cut time constraints it is more time consuming for the teacher but we we are funded through a california partnership academy grant so we have some extra money to pay for additional time for teachers to work together outside of their regular day to ten professional developments health care system so we have to change that and you guys are a part of that change there are a lot of things that you could be doing  mill but this is be a high on your motivation list how do we get people motivated in terms of youth in terms of because i can talk to someone about health care tom blue in the face which you folks tonight are making a real serious impact on folks that maya thought about careers in medicine and that's also want to look like them and i relate to them and we all come from humble beginnings so i think is again another discussion that i'm trying to promote in our it's really helpful and i feel like my career and the experience that we've gained will be able to benefit everybody around this because people can come to us and we can say that i had experience gained will be able to kind of inspire and i should have people anyone can do it because like we all didn't exactly say oh this is what we wanted to do since since the very beginning joint health but then anyone can enter the health field are that because everyone has something that they're good at maybe people haven't found it yet but maybe biology and things like that maybe science is what you're good at so if someone thinks that they're better than me or think that i'm better than them then that's their opinion but i'm always going to do what i think i'm good at and what motivates me and i think about how again this is really practical so they might be hating on him maybe it's because like they don't know much about it but we can also invite them easily like ok well if you think this is a silly want you try it possibly and try to recruit them during our process as well so there's an aspect of community service to the program understood them so i would count this is community service and even if it's not like every day that we go even just that one time that we go it's still we still learn a lot from me even if it's part of on terrorism that we do every day every week or anything like that it's still we're still trying to make that effort would say that you both have decided we could dream this reality and i don't ever want those dreams to stop you know i want to take your family or have you come  people have options do they have options that can make better decisions i think you guys both of you are making are taking the options that you have and making the best decisions that you can we kill and just be excited about that if there was one final thing each year we want to support education and support your teachers in your local community and that support in a variety of ways but it's a passion of mine so i'm there every day with the kids but it can be challenging as wall you know at various levels so anything that they communicate community can do to supports quality education happening around them for the future of their community it's really important and i like to say that it's never too late to go after things that you are interested in and that's because like encountered a lot of people who as a junior or senior if you like i would have joined the county fair knew about it earlier or i would have gone down that path if someone had told me and i feel like it's never too late you should just go pharmacists and general hygiene is that like us come from our perspective and know from where we speak we have better quality and we can have better outcomes we should be supporting i would like a program like this in every high school in america because it's sorely needed three point eight million jobs a lot to fill and i think we've got two candidates right here well i thank you