Summer Term online courses allow Biology Major student to volunteer in hometown EMS
As a rising senior and biology major on a pre-med track, Cole Schairer (he/him) planned his Summer Term to allow him to finish two certificates, graduate early and pursue a volunteer project that’s close to his heart and his hometown.
During the school year Schairer volunteers with Cardiac on Campus, a UW–Madison student organization that promotes heart health by providing free CPR classes, donating AEDs to campus buildings and organizing electrocardiogram (ECG) screening drives. As an ECG chair member, Schairer assists with planning drives and instructing monthly CPR classes.
“It’s more common than we’d like that high school or college athletes will suddenly go into cardiac arrest, not knowing they were at risk. An ECG screening can prevent that from happening,” says Schairer.
His summer plans, however, will take him back to his hometown of Birnamwood, Wisconsin.
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