This past year Spanish teacher, Melissa Ballesteros, received a grant from WTEF to start our first Hispanic National Honor Society (with EJ Jzar). This grant also supported the funding to allow a group of fluent Spanish speaking students and Health Careers majors to obtain certification as medical translators, which if received allows them an opportunity to obtain a well paid job right away once certification is received!

Eskenazi and the University of Indianapolis were also very impressed by our efforts of providing these certifications to our students, that they have followed suite with reduced fees for the certification process. This process gives certification to our students and alignment for training through Eskenazi's Bridging the Gap program. BDU staff member Robbie Foote is now engaged in the efforts to seek this opportunity to our students through his HIMT 110 Medical Terminology course!