Closing out a year of accomplishments, Frisco ISD HOSA students earned top awards at this summer’s National Leadership Conference, demonstrating the future-ready skills they learned in the classroom.

HOSA: Future Health Professionals is one of several career and technical student organizations that provide career-specific instruction and opportunities for competition. HOSA prepares students for careers in the health and medical field.

To qualify for the national contest, FISD students first advanced through region- and state-level competitions. Eighteen impressive students competed at the national level, with nine earning top-10 finishes.

Congratulations to all the competitors and their advisors, and to the top-10 finishers!

Neervi Jain, Prisha Muthu Lakshmanan, Tulasi Patil and Nysha Yerramsetti - Independence

• 1st Place and National Champions, Mental Health Promotion

Apoorv Kansal - Memorial

• 1st Place and National Champion, Nursing Assisting

Ishitha Minnamreddy - Centennial

• 2nd Place, Health Career Photography

Sadhika Mandula and Aditi Diwakar - Lebanon Trail

• 7th Place, Health Career Display

Rebecca Feng - Liberty

• 8th Place, Clinical Nursing

- Rachel McReynolds