Simulated blood oozed out of a mock wound as eighth-grade science students worked quickly to “stop the bleed” in a new lab at Aurora Science & Tech.

Their medical instructors taught the eighth-graders that in order to stop a real wound from bleeding, the tourniquet would have to be painfully tight. The practice tourniquets did hurt. But in that moment, Jackie Morales, 14, had a great vision of her future.

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