Hi.

Welcome to Mayor's Top Teens.

I'm Liz Liano, and we're going to be talking with Amy Sheen.

Amy, welcome and congratulate on being a Mayor's Top Teen.

It's an honor.

Well, it's so great to have you here today.

Thank you.

So we'd love to know a little bit about you.

What are some of your activities and some of the things that have got you into being Mayor's Top Teen?

So at school I'm currently the president of HOSA its Health Occupations Students of America, and I also partake in MESA, Science Olympiad.

I'm in National Honor Society.

And, you know, outside of school, I'm in track and field.

I rock climb a lot as a hobby and I do puzzles.

I'm also an altar server at my church up in El Paso, because we have a little Korean community up there.

So over the weekends, I also help the elderly, you know, take them to the doctor's appointments, help them translate, you know, into English.

And, yeah.

Wow, that is quite a list.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, so, you do a lot of activities in your school.

You said you do HOSA and the Science Olympiad, right?

I do.

So what does, HOSA consist of?

What is that?

So a HOSA is primarily, health occupations.

So I went into it thinking I wanted it to focus on the dental dentistry in my future.

But because HOSA offers such a wide variety of all the medical fields I dabbled into, you know, nursing, which is hopefully what I'm going to major in now.

So we do competitions, regionals, states and internationals actually.

Last year internationals at Nashville and it was very fun.

I built a lot of friendships over HOSA and yeah, I think that solidified my future career.

And what is your future career you want to do?

Nursing.

I would love to major in nursing.

Wonderful, wonderful.

And do you have an idea, what do you want to specialize in something as a nurse?

Yes, I've been looking into the CRNA programs, but however, it's a very long route.

And to before becoming a CRNA, you have to be into like an ICU nurse first and you have to go back into grad school.

But long way, but very hopefull.

Can you school me what, what is CRNA?

CRNA is a nursing in specialties in anesthesiology.

So you just aid the anesthesiologist.

And, you know, it's more primarily in the surgical field.

Yes.

Wow.

That sounds pretty up there.

Yes.

But that's your aspiration.

Okay cool.

And you also said you do the Science Olympiad.

I do and is that also dovetail that interest.

And does that also dovetail that interest?

Yeah.

So.

Science Olympiad is a lot more broader.

They have engineering, astronomy, I primarily focused on anatomy and physiology.

And I dabbled in some code busters.

I did a lot of computer science classes in school.

So that helped a lot as well.

Very cool.

Wow.

Such diverse scientific interests.

Very cool.

And you also do a lot of community service.

You said you, participate at your church.

Yes.

Cool.

So, Amy, what school do you want to end up going to?

I did apply.

Oh, like, everywhere, though.

I did it like the West coast, the East coast.

But my sister goes in the East coast, at Boston College.

So hopefully around there.

If not, I would love to live in Texas as well.

Wonderful.

I'm sure living near your family is always nice.

It is great.

And, let's see.

And you want to study to be a nurse?

Yes.

Fantastic.

Well, it sounds like you've got a lot to keep you busy in the mean time.

For sure.

Wonderful.

Well, I want to congratulate you again Amy for being a Mayors Top Teen.

Thank you.