Central Tech’s BioMed Program Prepares Students to Succeed in Research at OSU

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  • 14 April, 2013
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Three of Central Tech’s BioMed graduates participated Friday April 12, 2013 at Oklahoma State University’s end of the year presentations for it’s Freshman Research Scholarship award winners.

Summer Krlin, Ricky Shriner and Kimberly Rogers were awarded the scholarship during their senior year, while in Central Tech’s BioMedical Sciences Program.

Central Tech’s BioMedical Program prepares students for college level science classes.

Summer Krlin and her research project display at Oklahoma State University's Student Union Ballroom at end of the year presentations.

Summer Krlin and her research project display at Oklahoma State University’s Student Union Ballroom at end of the year presentations.

“First semester of college my major science class was Biology,” said Summer Krlin, a freshman at Oklahoma State University and a Central Tech BioMed alumna. “I was so prepared. I think I only used my book 3 times.”

Ms. Radcliff, BioMed’s instructor, uses her past experience as a medical lab tech and her Master’s in Education to give her students rare hands-on experience. Central Tech’s labs offers our 17 sending schools the opportunity to use equipment not often found in small, rural schools, while maintaining small class sizes and one-on-one attention.

Ricky Shriner and her research project display at Oklahoma State University's Student Union Ballroom at end of the year presentations.

Ricky Shriner and her research project display at Oklahoma State University’s Student Union Ballroom at end of the year presentations.

“My first day in the lab with my professor, within 15 minutes of questioning, he said I was better than most of the grad students he had had in the lab,” said Ricky Shriner, a freshman at Oklahoma State University and a Central Tech BioMed alumnus. “Ms. Rad helped me find the [freshman research scholarship]. It was the senior project I did in class that helped me get the scholarship.”

BioMed teaches students skills they will use outside of science classes and opens up opportunities students wouldn’t normally find in a traditional classroom.

“If it wasn’t for BioMed I would have never made it to National Lab Day my junior year [of high school] and met my mentor and found botany,” said Kimberly Rogers a freshman at Oklahoma State University and a Central Tech BioMed alumna. “Even in English it helped. I have to do a presentation soon and thanks to my senior project, I have experience presenting in front of a group.”

Kimberly Rogers with her mentor, Andrew Doust, and her research project display at Oklahoma State University's Student Union Ballroom at end of the year presentations.

Kimberly Rogers with her mentor, Andrew Doust, and her research project display at Oklahoma State University’s Student Union Ballroom at end of the year presentations.

To find out more information about Central Tech’s Biomedical Sciences Program visit their website or contact their high school recruiter.

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