Duncan Middle School seventh-graders may soon be able to identify what ails someone.
The STEM students are participating in the medical detectives project, where they build off what they have learned about vitals, and illnesses and sickeness.
“I like STEM,” Tripp Sumpter, seventh-grader, said. “The teachers are really laid back.”
Sumpter said he likes the medical detectives lesson because he finds the subject matter to be interesting. He said he was learning about viruses and bacteria.
Sumpter said he thinks the subject is important to learn about.
“It’s not hard as long as you are locked in,” he said.
He said there are assignments tied to the project, and he has been paying attention to get good grades on his assignments.
Adler Trammell, seventh-grader, said he also is enjoying STEM and the medical detectives.
Trammell said the medical detectives project will serve him in the future because he wants to be a doctor as his future career choice. He said the STEM students have learned about taking vital signs.
He said STEM is a great way for students to learn about topics that can serve them in science-based fields. He said it’s important to pay attention and to give full effort in STEM class because the information may tie directly to what students do in the future.
For Keeton Byerly, STEM and he medical detectives are enjoyable.
Byerly, seventh-grader, said the students do a lot of fun things in STEM and in the medical detectives project. He said he has learned how to take an individual’s pulse.
He said the information is good to know, even if students don’t go into the medical field. He said the medical detectives provides information that could serve students if they are in the hospital.
Byerly and Trammell are partnered, along with Sutton Dulworth, another seventh-grader, for the medical detectives project.
