Students spend day learning health awareness
Marcus Brown and Meg Dement took the driving and texting challenge. Students were able to participate in an obstacle course, riding a small tricycle while attempting to send a text message, making sure they go around the orange cones without hitting them.
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Lyndee Dement didn’t mind missing her morning classes.
“What I am learning here this morning will help me in my life,” she said.
Dement, along with all of the Van Vleck High School students spent the morning at the Matagorda Regional Medical Center fourth annual Health and Wellness fair.
“Every person at each table is taking their time to explain to us the importance of not taking any drugs, drinking, smoking and even texting,” Lyndee explained.
Students visited several exhibits, including Matagorda Regional Medical Center, Fit for Life, the Crisis Center and Bay Area Council on Drugs and Alcohol.
Students received free blood screenings for glucose and cholesterol, and nurses also offered blood pressure tests.
“This is a break from their daily routine, and they are also learning something at the fair,” said Christie Dement, high school guidance counselor.
The health fair was created to bring awareness on different topics, she said.
“With the health exhibit, we want to make the students are aware and to be careful of what is out there,” Dement added.
Specific lectures were given to the students from sexually transmitted diseases, juvenile crimes, driving and texting to steroids.
Brandon Garay, a junior, said he was amazed at what he had just learned at the health exhibit.
“I didn’t know men can get breast cancer, too,” he said. “This is information that is helping us all, including me, since I am an athlete.”
One of the new lectures offered at the health fair was the driver’s safety class. Students were able to participate in an obstacle course, riding a small tricycle while attempting to send a text message and making sure they go around orange cones without hitting them.
The goal of the obstacle course was to show the dangers of texting while driving.
“We are missing our morning classes, but I feel privileged that the school takes time to do fairs like these for us,” said Garay.