HOSA 2020 Virtual ILC Conference Winners

HOSA 2020 Virtual ILC Conference Winners
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HOSA -- Future Health Professionals is a national organization for young people interested in healthcare. Middle schools, high schools, and colleges can have their own local chapters. Throughout the year, members will participate in healthcare workshops and events. Students have the chance to learn, serve, and lead as club members. HOSA -- Future Health Professionals also hosts annual competitions. Young people come from all over to share their passion for healthcare. There are over a dozen events to choose from to compete as a team or alone. Students compete at the regional, state, national, then international level. 

HOSA -- Future Health Professionals conducted the 43rd annual Virtual International Leadership Conference (VILC) with 7,300 members, advisors, judges and guests on June 24-27, 2020. Virtual ILC highlights included 77 health-related competitive events, 64 educational workshops, 83 exhibitors, and two keynoters. Below are highlights of the 2020 event winners:

Public Health

all presentations focus on Opioids

  1. Novi High School - Michigan
  2. Enloe High School - North Carolina
  3. Skyline High School - Washington
  4. Milton High School - Georgia
  5. Novi High School - Michigan (another team from this school)
  6. Western University - Canada

MRC Partnership

presentations focus on how HOSA collaborated with MRC Units across the nation to promote the MRC and HOSA missions

  1. Francis Tuttle Pre-Nursing Meek - Oklahoma
  2. Olentangy High School - Ohio
  3. Ashley Ridge High School - South Carolina

Community Awareness

presentations outline ways teams brought attention to health related issues in their communities

  1. Olentangy High School - Ohio – Teen Education on HIV/Aids
  2. Juanita High School - Washington – Awareness on Homelessness
  3. Farmington High School - Michigan – Sexual Harassment and Assault

Health Education

presentations summarize how HOSA teams created lessons to help educate their peers/the public/younger students on health related issues

  1. Lambert High School – Georgia – Pathogenic Diseases and Transmission
  2. Bedford High School – Michigan – Protecting your Immune System
  3. Troy High School – Michigan – How Germs Spread

Medical Innovation

presentations explain new medical innovations invented by our HOSA teams to help improve health issues, conditions, and problems

  1. Chanhassen High School – Minnesota - The B.A.E Food Bar; Supporting Homeless Populations
  2. Ed W. Clark High School – Nevada – The Clot Catcher
  3. Francis Tuttle Technology Center Rockwell Dalhed - Oklahoma - Security Bin Auto Sanitizer

Research Persuasive Writing and Speaking

speeches asked competitors to pick a side of the topic: “Big Pharmaceuticals – Creating More Cures or Clients?”

  1. Yuqing Yang – China
  2. Rachel Shaw – Texas
  3. Rahmah Isa – Texas