Plum Girl Attends National Career Exploration Camp

A high school student from Plum Borough participated in a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology this summer.
 
Shannon McAleavey, an 11th grade student at Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, attended the Explore Your Future program in July. The program is a six-day career exploration camp at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on the RIT campus in Rochester, NY. More than 200 students from all over the U.S. attended.

Campers got a taste of possible careers in computer art design, lab science technology, business, computing and engineering.

New this year was a course involving health care careers. Taught by a deaf physician, the students used computers to look up the doctor's "symptoms" and attempted to diagnose his ailment.

According to a press release from Rochester Institute of Technology, the new class was added after a national Task Force on Health Care Careers for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community released a report calling for barriers preventing more deaf and hard-of-hearing students from entering health care careers.

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