{"id":228,"date":"2023-03-28T21:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/?p=228"},"modified":"2023-03-28T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:48:47","slug":"phit-welcomes-metro-area-high-school-students-to-hista-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/2023\/03\/28\/phit-welcomes-metro-area-high-school-students-to-hista-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"PHIT Welcomes Metro-Area High School Students To HISTA Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 25th PHIT staffed welcomed metro Jackson area High School Students to the HISTA Academy&#8217;s first official event. HISTA (Health Informatics, Science, and Technology Academy) looks to provide students with a pathway to careers in informatics and technology. Students were greeted by PHIT Executive Director, Dr. Loria Brown-Gordon who started the morning off by introducing HISTA staff and outlining the program&#8217;s agenda. They also met with instructors who would be leading their courses in Tableau, R, and Python. Brown-Gordon said that future professionals will transform the usage of informatics in industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to begin to demythify informatics and analytics for these kids,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our hope is that one day our HISTA students will be leading experts in this field.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230328_110526-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230328_110526-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230328_110526-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230328_110526-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230328_110526-495x600.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230328_110526.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 25th PHIT staffed welcomed metro Jackson area High School Students to the HISTA Academy&#8217;s first official event. HISTA (Health Informatics, Science, and Technology Academy) looks to provide students with a pathway to careers in informatics and technology. Students were greeted by PHIT Executive Director, Dr. Loria Brown-Gordon who started the morning off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}