Today we had a lot of fun. WE went to UMASS Medical School. That is a place where college graduates learn to be doctor, nurse, surgeons, and musch more. Umass memorial hospital is very big and new. When we got there we were split into groups. One group would discuss when the other wwent on a tour and visa versa. On the tour we went in to an area called the simulation center. There students or new doctors or nurses could preform procedures on dummies so they perfected them befor the preformed them on actual people. There were a lot of different dummies. There was on dummy of a pregnant woman. Her technology could actually take her through the birthing process and she could talk and move. Another dummy was a man that you could see him breathing and see his vital signs on a screen. He could tell you what was wrong with him and what hurt. In that room teachers could observe their students with cameras and through one way glass. The teachers could also change the heart rate or blood sugar and other vital signs of a duumy which would make the student have to fix the dummy back to normal. This lady took us to a seperate room and showed us another dummy. This dummy was used so Doctors could listen to what different heart and lung defencts sounded like. There was a heart murmur, asthma and many other defects that a whole class could listen to on head sets that were kind of like stethoscopes. In the last room there were two infant dummies that could be within the first ten minutes of life. After that we left to have lunch which was sandwiches and cookies. Our group traveled to a confrence room to do a video confrence with the head of the international space station. She talked about space and how people live there. She was also very interested in how being in space affects the body. She has done a lot of research ans tells us we can do whatever we want to and to follow our dreams. We took our picture with her and said goodbye. Later we looked at posters from college students and traveled back to girls inc.