About HSTA-AL
The Health Sciences and Technology Academy, or HSTA, is a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that began in the state of West Virginia in 1994 and is now being offered in Alabama by Hale and Pickens County community leaders and The University of Alabama.
HSTA-AL was founded to help participating high school students enter higher education and succeed in nursing and other STEM-based undergraduate and graduate degree programs. HSTA-AL students will be recruited in their 8th grade year and chosen according to their qualifying criteria. After school clubs are held throughout the school year beginning in September. Students attend weekly meetings, participate in community service , and complete and present an annual community-based research project.
To successfully graduate from HSTA-AL , each student must attend two Summer Academies over the course of the four years they spend in the program. These residential summer camps will be held at The University of Alabama. Summer Camps will provide enriching and challenging learning opportunities, along with a lot of fun. Students will work alongside college faculty members, HSTA-AL teachers, and college student mentors as they explore a variety of health-related topics, learn about nursing career opportunities, and gain skills that will prepare them to conduct successful community-based research projects in the HSTA-AL After School Club program.
The goal of this initiative is to build diversity in Alabama's nursing, nurse-faculty, and nurse scientist professions by opening the doors to higher education for rural, underserved economically disadvantaged, primarily African American high school students.
HSTA-AL was founded to help participating high school students enter higher education and succeed in nursing and other STEM-based undergraduate and graduate degree programs. HSTA-AL students will be recruited in their 8th grade year and chosen according to their qualifying criteria. After school clubs are held throughout the school year beginning in September. Students attend weekly meetings, participate in community service , and complete and present an annual community-based research project.
To successfully graduate from HSTA-AL , each student must attend two Summer Academies over the course of the four years they spend in the program. These residential summer camps will be held at The University of Alabama. Summer Camps will provide enriching and challenging learning opportunities, along with a lot of fun. Students will work alongside college faculty members, HSTA-AL teachers, and college student mentors as they explore a variety of health-related topics, learn about nursing career opportunities, and gain skills that will prepare them to conduct successful community-based research projects in the HSTA-AL After School Club program.
The goal of this initiative is to build diversity in Alabama's nursing, nurse-faculty, and nurse scientist professions by opening the doors to higher education for rural, underserved economically disadvantaged, primarily African American high school students.
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