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Heydi Linares<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heydi Linares<\/p>\n
This spring, Miami Palmetto High School rising senior Heydi Linares won the Palmetto Core Value Award at the end-of-the-year awards ceremony.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s committed to community service and volunteers at a variety of events, some through Key Club and some through the Savannah Sanin\u2019s organization, Mockup Speak Up.<\/p>\n
As the Key Club co-secretary she deals with communication with board members and makes sure club members are up to date with their community service hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone is supposed to have 10 hours a month,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s a peer leader in Mockup Speak Up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI advise people who have trouble speaking (in public),\u201d she says. \u201cSavannah has activities where everyone socializes and gets out of their comfort zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s been a member since Sanin told her about the Gold Award idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike a good friend would do, I helped her,\u201d she says. \u201cI really like socializing. I\u2019m very good at schmoozing. It\u2019s very easy to find a topic to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mockup Speak Up had individual sessions once every two weeks. The final session was held at the Girl Scout owned Camp Mahachee.<\/p>\n
Linares earned many of her hours her freshman year when she worked with the athletic training department at Miami Killian. As a trainer, she worked at all sport events and practices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved it a lot,\u201d she says. \u201cIt involved medicine that is something I\u2019m interested in for my future career. The best thing is being able to bond with all the other athletic trainers.\u201d<\/p>\n
She couldn\u2019t continue when she transferred to Palmetto from Killian so she could take the Capstone program.<\/p>\n
This past year, Linares completed her research paper on how socio-economic status affects the perception of health care quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring that time, I had just shadowed a doctor,\u201d she says. \u201cHe was telling me how socio-economic status can affect how people perceive medical technologies and if they were to use them. That is what I found in my study as well. Someone who is rich looks at health care differently than someone who is poor. Rich people can go to the doctor. Poor people can\u2019t go.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says in the future, she wants to help increase access to people who aren\u2019t financially stable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy and blessed to have what I have,\u201d she says. \u201cThe treatment they get is not the treatment that they are supposed to be receiving.\u201d<\/p>\n
She had shadowed a cardiologist who specializes in robotic surgery at Baptist Hospital for a day and saw a full surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does open heart surgery,\u201d she says. \u201cThe one I shadowed was the mitral valve surgery. You have to repair that valve when it\u2019s not pumping out blood correctly. I saw everything. I expected to be in a viewing room. They don\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Linares is the Class of \u201927 secretary and a new member of the National Honor Society. She is also a member of the Debate Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a club that I really like a lot,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m not a debate person. I tried it and I enjoyed it a lot. I\u2019m more medical, science.\u201d<\/p>\n
She did well in debate. In her first competition at Miami-Dade College, she placed second. She plans to attend more competitions this school year.<\/p>\n
In college, she says she\u2019s considering majoring in Bio Medical Engineering.<\/p>\n
She plans to stay in state so she\u2019s applying to Florida State University, the University of Florida, the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida and Florida International University.<\/p>\n
This summer she\u2019s been interning at Palmetto in the school office.<\/p>\n
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld<\/p>\n
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