1. Bobby Hughes Human Body System Teacher Hazelwood West High School bhughes@hazelwoodschool.org

2.  We started out with 2 classes of 10 students in 07-08  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

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

5.  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

7.  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

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

9.  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

10.  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

11.  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

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