Thirty middle school students from Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, Texas
spent the past 2 weeks immersed in a biomedical science program that
allowed them to witness firsthand the distinct, yet noble work, of a
doctor.Through the Science, Service, Medicine, and Mentoring program
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canvas. those who took part learned more or less what each of them
would have to go through and achieve from their current standing in
middle school til their university education in order to become doctors.
This program was first implemented by the U.S. Navy.
Dr.
Cynthia Izuno Macri of the U.S. Navy Medical Corp created the S2m2
program and said that it was founded to tackle two matters:
strengthening the number of doctors who are culturally competent for the
sake of improved health outcomes, and encouraging the enthusiasm of
minority students all of whom could contribute to the representation of
minorities in the physician workforce.
Dr. Macri explains that
through academic immersion, her programs goal is to close the gap
between health and education and produce a body of physicians to render
services in the regions new medical school, set to be inaugurated and
combined with the Valleys currently existing universities as they
affiliate. Macri is also hoping for the S2M2 to have a long term effect
on the general prosperity of communities of color as more of their
younger members become driven to be successful doctors.
A
private tutoring business in the Valley, Sylvan Learning, brought S2M2
to Texas for free for the first time this summer, in cooperation with
Navy Medicine, IDEA Public Schools and DHR.Last Friday, the program
conducted its completion ceremony and had Dr. Carlos Cadenas, a
gastroenterologist and CEO of Doctors Hospital, speak about the youths
medical talent. He comments that the Valley has a huge population, and
an even bigger heart.
The students who participated in the
program were given the opportunities to meet with several University of
Texas-Pan American students, shadow DHR doctors, and learn in the
science labs of the IDEA campus in McAllen.Sylvan Learning of the Rio
Grande Valley executive director, Susan Valverde, explains that the free
learning camp would normally cost $750, but the coordinators decided to
offer it for free to guarantee unlimited access for students whove been
selected after a thorough application process.
Maria Cortina,
an incoming McAllen Memorial High School student, revealed that her
hands-on experience at the S2M2 program is definitely something shed
recommend to her friends who are thinking of taking up medicine. She
said that after the program,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. she felt more decided about becoming a doctor.
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Its not quite that in fact, its a
suite of two rooms tucked into non-descript corporate low-rise. Theres a
couple of fellows from Smitherines marketing staff working at a pair of
the half-dozen desks when I walk in with father-son directors JD and
Iain McNeil. An enormous poster showing the various liveries of Space
Marine chapters is tacked to the wall behind Iains desk, an artifact of
Slitherines Warhammer 40K Armageddon project, but other than that you
could easily mistake it for any other mundane office. Boxes are packed
up, ready to go with the McNeils to Virginia tomorrow for the companys
annual showcase of new products, taking place this year at the
Historicon wargaming expo.
Weve got over a hundred developers
working with us, JD says, but theyre in small teams all over the world.
The Panzer Corps guys are out of Luxembourg. The lead developer on Buzz
Aldrins Space Program Manager is in Argentina. Id never realized how
far-flung Slitherines confederacy of devs was their yearly get-togethers
are as important for getting face time with their collaborators as they
are for generating press coverage.
We shuffle into JDs office,
which is decorated with the boxes of PC games from the early 1990s back
when games came in cartons so big you could deliver a pizza in them.
Iain flips the cover off the face of an iPad. What do you want to see
first?It is too early, Iain says, but he gamely pulls up a promotional
shot of units from the game on JDs computer the first in-game assets
theyve shown off. Theres Imperial Guard Baneblades and Blood Angels
Dreadnaughts and a strapline promising over 300 different units in the
game when the sci-fi wargame ships in 2014.Bringing bestguidancesystem mainstream. The game is running on a modified Panzer Corps engine, Iain says.
So
if Panzer Corps engine is getting this mature and flexible, how many of
the Panzer Corps expansion packs are going to be available with Panzer
Corps for iPad at launch?All of them, JD says. Theres a huge amount of
content in the Panzer Corps expansions that have trickled out since the
game was released on PC: Afrika Korps, Allied Corps, and a fistful of
year-by-year German campaigns. Every single one. Expansions for Battle
Academy have done really well for us so we want to make sure that
players have access to as much of it as they want on day one.
Iain
shakes his head. Honestly, I dont. Theres a difference in mindset
between somebody whos just downloaded a free app on their iPad and
somebody whos just paid for one.Aulaundry is a leading carparkmanagementsystem and
equipment supplier. The guy with the free app needs to be hooked in the
first thirty seconds if hes not, hes going to move on to something
else.That doesnt really suit the sort of games that we make. Were
selling relatively complex games that you need to learn how to play.
That a-ha moment doesnt usually happen in the first thirty seconds with
games like Battle Academy. So Im not sure how many more free lite
versions were going to do in the future. Our games need your attention
for a little longer than a free player is likely to give.
Youve
got another Battle Academy expansion about to roll out why are you
making Battle Academy 2? To be honest, the screenshots dont look all
that different, I say.Theres actually a lot of new mechanics in BA2,
Iain says. Stuff like entrenchment, functional smoke that provides
concealment, random skirmish missions. Were also totally over-hauling
the multiplayer system. Iain pulls up a screenshot of Battle Academy 2
with a line of Panzers approaching a Soviet trench from behind a smoke
screen. Battle Academys actually getting a bit old the original PC
release was in 2010. We hit the limit of what we could easily cram into
it.
I ask to see Buzz Aldrin Space Program Manager, and Iain
slides the iPad across. The game puts you in charge of a fictional
global space agency (We wanted you to be able to do Soviet, American,
and European space agency missions without making you start a new game
as a different country, says Iain) and charges you with getting to the
moon. The hub of the game is a beauty shot of your agencys equivalent of
Cape Canaveral, which changes visually to indicate your progress as you
construct new facilities and launch programs. Its a bit like a more
functional throne room from Civ II.
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