Bobby Hughes Human Body System Teacher Hazelwood West High School

 We started out with 2 classes of 10 students in  Currently we have 6 sections of Principles of Biomedical Science, 2 sections of Human Body Systems, and 1 section each of Medical Interventions and Biomedical Innovations

 Promoting your program within your building  Promoting your program to middle schools  Promoting your program with parents and the community

 Student word of mouth is a great way to promote the program  Students who had a positive experience will convince other enroll in the program  Class T-shirts and/or lab coats are way to promote a community and advertise the program

 Field trips and other partnership with organizations help draw interest  Field trips serves as an alternative to the career journal assignments  Guess speakers to assist in activities  Stress the opportunity to earn college credit  Remember, students who already completed a class can go back and enroll for credit

 Display cases, bulletin boards with student work help make your classes more visible

 Having an incoming freshman night at the school allows you to show off the program to middle school students  Get brochures from PLTW to hand out  Have opportunities for hands on demonstrations  Hazelwood hosted a STEM extravaganza to expose district student to STEM careers and programs

 Communicate with science teachers and counselors at the middle school to connect with students who may be interested in taking the biomedical science courses  Work ethic is key  Have teachers recommend students (make it an honor)  Make sure middle school teachers have brochures of the program to hand out during registration

 Back to school nights and registration are great places to introduce the program to parents  Stress rigor of curriculum, credit option  Show of sample activities and projects  Have classroom displays up during open house and parent teacher conference  This expose the program to parents of your other classes

 Form partnerships with businesses, colleges and university in your area  Sharing of resources and creating a pipeline to post-secondary education