Provo High School student Hannah Beisel returned from the 2026 HOSA International Leadership Conference with two honors: third place in Career Development and a Certificate of Mastery for finishing in the top 10 percent of the Healthcare Issues competition.
She was one of five Provo High students selected to represent both their school and the Utah HOSA Chartered Association in Indianapolis, including Christian Nimer, Gavin Puertas, Jelise Busker and Jaimy Cervantes, who also competed at the summer conference.
The 49th annual event brought together approximately 15,000 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and countries including Canada, China, South Korea and Vietnam. For four days, students from around the world tested their knowledge in healthcare-related competitions, attended leadership sessions, and met peers also preparing for careers in their shared, fast-changing fields.
Our Provo High students achieved international acclaim, but their success began well before Indianapolis.
Students built the knowledge required for HOSA’s specialized events for months in their Anatomy, Biotechnology and Introduction to Health courses, aided by Provo High HOSA co-advisors Rachel Scott, Erica Persson and Caralee Young to prepare for competition on an international stage.
The trip was, similarly, a community effort: blood drives held at Provo High helped fund the school’s HOSA program and student travel, and merit-based scholarships from Provo City School District’s Career and Technical Student Organizations program and Utah HOSA provided additional support.
Now, health science students across the district will have another advanced tool at their disposal.
Through funding from the APEX grant, programs at Provo High, Timpview High and the Provo Center for Advanced Professional Studies have received Anatomage tables. The seven-foot interactive touchscreens allow students to examine digitized human and animal cadavers, isolate anatomical systems and conduct virtual dissections.
The technology offers students an unusually detailed look inside the human body, years before many of them will enter a medical or professional training program. Paired with classroom instruction, CTSO participation and opportunities such as the HOSA conference, it gives aspiring healthcare professionals room to do more than study the field.
We congratulate and thank our students and advisors for their efforts. Here's to another year of success and student achievement.
