This summer, eight NDCL students and recent graduates worked side-by-side with healthcare professionals as interns at the Cleveland Clinic's main campus and community hospitals.
Lions Intern at Cleveland Clinic
This summer, eight NDCL students and recent graduates worked side-by-side with healthcare professionals as interns at the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus and community hospitals.
This year’s internship cohort — NDCL’s largest ever — included seniors John Burwinkel, Julia Baitt, and Kevin McGinty; junior Grace Stauffer; and recent graduates Michelle King, Alexis Hammer, Matty Spicerand Danya MacDonald.
In recent years, NDCL students have won 36 internship appointments at the Clinic — more than any other Catholic high school in the Clinic’s entire market area.
The Cleveland Clinic Civic Education Department’s clinic-based programs give northeast Ohio middle and high school students the opportunity to learn and work alongside world-renowned caregivers at the Clinic’s main campus, regional hospitals and family health centers. Through their experiences in these programs, students connect with healthcare fields and careers, develop their 21st century skill-set through hands-on learning opportunities and discover real-world applications for their academic knowledge.
STEM Cross-Curricular Initiative
This year, students in Miss Kelly Maduri’s honors chemistry classes, Mrs. Ashley Kelm’s engineering class and Mrs. Marcia Pecek’s Honors Algebra 2/Trigonometry classes will collaborate to participate in the Northeast Ohio Innovates STEM commercialization program and competition.
Students from the three different courses will regularly come together to work in groups to identify, research and design possible solutions to real-world problems. At the beginning of the school year, they kicked off their studies with three labs to learn about different materials they may incorporate into their design solutions.
Inspiration for this new STEM initiative came from a professional learning session Mrs. Pecek attended at the annual meeting of the National Council of Mathematics in Washington, D.C., last April.
