Question: Assume you weren't an awesome educator for just a moment and were instead a city official noticing a nursing deficit in your community hospitals. Do you A. Pack up your town and move, B. Cross your fingers and hope for the best, or C. Build up a nursing workforce by getting into your high schools and showing kids what a wonderful career nursing could be for them and inspire TXGU students to greater health-giving heights? C. The answer is C (but we know you knew that).

East Texas GEAR UP for Success partnered on the creation of an LVN program (that's Licensed Vocational Nurse, for the acronym-challenged among us) that brought nursing into Hudson High School. And we mean they really brought it in—converting a classroom into a recreation of a hospital wing complete with equipment, accurate lighting, and even hyper-realistic robotic patients. Hey, if anyone can navigate the weird "uncanny valley"  where robots end and humans begin and come out more educated, it's a determined TXGU'er. If you're ready to do some examining yourself, dive into this latest "Texas GEAR UP in Action" video  and head on over to the Toolbox for even more info.