Health and Medicine Academy at Joliet West High School

This year, the Health and Medicine Academy at Joliet West High School is hosting a Healthcare Careers Fair on Thursday, April 26, 2018.  Currently, our Health Occupations students are compiling a career portfolio that includes information on a healthcare career of their choice and information on colleges and programs that will prepare them for their desired career.  The portfolio project will culminate with students designing a poster display and preparing a short career presentation.  Students will share their results at our Health Career Fair on April 26^th.

Please consider helping us with this exciting endeavor.  Joliet West is looking for community members with backgrounds in business, science, engineering, medicine, etc., to be volunteer judges/mentors for our Healthcare Career Fair.  Our students gain valuable skills presenting their research and discussing their career goals with others.  If you can help us, or if you can pass this request on to others who can help, it would be greatly appreciated!  Anyone interested in being a Career Fair judge/mentor can contact our coordinator, Mary Spata.   If you are a parent of a student in our class, you are strongly encouraged to volunteer and witness the hard work of your student and their colleagues. 

We are anticipating the need for a minimum of 12 judges for each of our 55-minute class periods.  Each judge would be asked to evaluate several projects during each period.  Judges will be needed for Period 4 (10:20 to 11:15), and Period 6 (12:20 to 1:15), Period 7 (1:20 to 2:20), and Period 8 (2:20 to 3:15).  Judges are welcomed to work the morning periods, the afternoon periods, or spend the day with us judging all 4 periods.

If you are able to help with Joliet West’s Healthcare Career Fair, please fill out the form or contact Mary Spata, RN, our Health Occupations instructor at mspata@jths.org or call 815-774-7400 extension 47370. 

If you are unavailable on the 26^th but would like to take part, please understand that our students also would benefit from Healthcare mentors.  Our Health Occupations students are interested in many of the healthcare careers.  If you have time available to mentor a student by providing an email that students can use to ask for advice or guidance it would be greatly appreciated.  Your advice and feedback would help our students improve their projects. 

Thank you,

 

 

Mary R. Spata  RN

Instructor, Health Careers, Health Information Technology, Medical Law and Ethics

Joliet West High School