{"id":20129,"date":"2021-10-09T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=20129"},"modified":"2021-10-15T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:07:11","slug":"esperanza-medical-sciences-academy-and-hosa-students-promote-pediatric-cancer-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=20129","title":{"rendered":"Esperanza Medical Sciences Academy and HOSA students promote Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recognition of September being Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, Esperanza High School&#8217;s Medical Sciences Academy members did their part in bringing awareness to the community! A large portion of Esperanza&#8217;s Health Occupations Students of America&#8217;s (otherwise known as HOSA) activities bring community awareness to a multitude of pressing issues, whether it may be local or global.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the week of September 27, Esperanza&#8217;s Medical Sciences Academy organized a school-wide awareness week covering pediatric cancer. Procuring immense participation and support from their school, Esperanza was able to make a significant impact in its community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esperanza&#8217;s two main events were &#8220;Cardmaking for Kendra&#8221; and a &#8220;Miracle Minute.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the intent of sending encouraging messages to a 16-year-old Leukemia patient named Kendra, students came out to make over 100 cards to send! As for the &#8220;Miracle Minute,&#8221; students collectively raised over $1,600 to donate to pediatric cancer organizations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this only being the <em>first<\/em> service-learning project to come from Esperanza&#8217;s Medical Academy for the 2021-2022 school year, the Aztecs are all very excited to see what they are capable of achieving next!\u00a0<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"wp-image-20220\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-26-2.png\" alt=\"EHS students.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-26-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-26-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-26-2-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"wp-image-20221\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-27-2.png\" alt=\"EHS students.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-27-2.png 750w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Good-News-10-15-2021-27-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of September being Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, Esperanza High School&#8217;s Medical Sciences Academy members did their part in bringing awareness to the community!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-20129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-esperanza-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}