LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Heart hosted a science and robotics occasion for native Las Vegas college students to discover cutting-edge robotic expertise.
Quite a lot of life-saving expertise and state-of-the-art hospital robots have been on show, with physicians and educators sharing with a whole lot of scholars how the robots work for the “Science Is Everywhere” occasion.
“This event is so exciting because it gets these young kids in here early on, and they get really excited about the possibility of joining healthcare as their career,” Chief Nursing Officer Courtney Ogle mentioned.
Actions on the occasion included hands-on robotic experiments and a teddy bear clinic the place the scholars dressed up as medical doctors and realized how one can take care of sufferers themselves.
Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Heart hosted a enjoyable and free science and robotics occasion. (KLAS) 
Actions on the annual “Science Is Everywhere” occasion included hands-on robotic experiments and a teddy bear clinic the place the scholars dressed up as medical doctors and realized how one can take care of a affected person themselves. (KLAS)
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Second grader Evelyn attended the occasion together with her mother and siblings and took residence her fluffy affected person.
“His name is Teddy, and I checked his weight and his height, and I gave him a cast, and I checked his heartbeat,” Evelyn mentioned.
The scholars additionally realized how one can carry out surgical procedures on their teddy bear sufferers. The occasion goals to advertise an curiosity in STEM and healthcare among the many youthful technology.
“This is a really fun process to do using robotics and surgery,” orthopedic surgeon Dr. Brian Carr mentioned. “We don’t have enough kids going into medicine nowadays. Anything that we can do to generate interest in technology and in medicine is great.”
