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From left to right; Stephanie Garcia, Nichole Sum, Xyan Evangelista, and Comfort Ajiboye
Hello there! We are the Byron Nelson High School Community Awareness Team in Trophy Club, Texas. We are working on a project for HOSA-Future Health Professionals in which we choose a topic and spread awareness on that topic.
We choose antibiotic resistance because it's one of the world's most pressing public health problems nevertheless, 44% of people in the world are not still not informed . Our goal is to spread awareness about this global threat on a wide scale, throughout Denton and neighboring communities.
Recently, we were able to compete at HOSA area level and are now advancing to compete at the state level against other awareness teams.
If you want to help, or partner with us, email us at comfort.ajiboye@student. nisdtx.org.
Our Project:
Have you taken antibiotics? If you have, that’s good because that’s what your doctors had prescribed you to do. However that’s where majority of the problem lies, because not everyone follows that prescription exactly as our doctors want us to. This, causes bacteria to become resistance and it is affecting every region of the world right now. That might sound like a bit of an exaggeration, but soon it might not be. Our goal is to spread awareness about this global threat on a wide scale, throughout Denton and neighboring communities. We started to do this through our school, Byron Nelson High School.
What we've done so far:
- Created a display comprised of hand made posters and placed them in front of our school cafeteria to maximize the amount of exposure regarding the antibiotic cycle, dangers, and prevention of the situation.
- Made digital flyers, so it would be easier for us to put them up in different parts of the school like our announcements areas, classrooms, and even in front of the nurses’ office.
- We also reached out to the online community, by creating a website and a twitter account called @Hosa_Comunity, where we post facts and tips about taking antibiotics.
- We gave a presentation about antibiotic resistance to a Biomedical Science Academy class with over 20 students, some even admitting that they had never even heard of it, and were glad to be informed on the severity of the issue.
- Our biggest accomplishment thus far has been partnering with Mayor Sanders of Trophy Club, Texas. Mr. Sanders has approved to hang our board in their hall where they showcase student work. Also, he gave us the opportunity to present our idea on awareness to the town council and his administrative board while, broadcasting it on their Facebook Live, March 27 2018 at 7pm. So tune in!
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Twitter: @Hosa_Community
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