OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Room to room and floor to floor, high school students were busy at work on Friday inside Singing River’s Healthcare Academy.

A surgical simulation was just one of the stations that the students went through at the Career Technical Education event.

Brooke Leon is a senior at Biloxi High School. She’s stoked to see the career opportunities available right here in South Mississippi.

“I’m proud of the Coast. I am so proud that we got this going on in Mississippi. All the opportunities are so enlightening, and there’s so much going on here,” she said.

“I like the idea of taking this thing that’s happening right now to this person, how can you connect all the pieces together and figure out what will help them?” Leon added.

250 students from nine schools walked

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