A current Mater Lakes Academy student and two of the school’s alumni recently passed the National Certification Exam for emergency medical technicians.
Mater Lakes Academy began the 2013-2014 school year with a health and science program with courses in Emergency Medical Responder and Health Science Foundations, under the instructions of Nicolas Wydra and Ron Piel of the Miramar Fire Department and Christopher Wydra of the Hialeah Fire Department.
The health and science program is currently in its fourth year at Mater Lakes Academy.
The first student to become a nationally certified emergency medical responder is senior Angelo Molina-Castro. The other two to have become a national certified emergency medical technician are former students of the health and science program and Mater Lakes Academy alumni, Alex Diaz and Raymond Contreras.
“We have piloted the program during the 2013-2014 school year with only three classes, and it grew the next year to 6 classes with a waiting list of students to take the course each year, and other schools have begun a similar program. We love the classes and how much it has flourished and helped us as a school,” said Mater Lakes Academy principal Rene Rovirosa.
“The first year of the program, the faculty were CPR and First Aid trained by our instructors and thanks to that program, we were able to perform CPR to save one of our student’s life, a few days later. Thanks to this program we are training our students to save the lives of others as well and we are proud of these three students for becoming nationally certified.”