LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) — The Hub, the Lima Chamber Foundation and the Allen County Educational Service Center came together to help spark an interest in kids in the field of health and medicine.
The Lightbulb Lab at The Hub invited children from kindergarten through fourth grade to learn from local medical experts and students about health and the human body. Through hands-on activities, games and stories, the kids experienced various fields of medicine and learned the importance of taking care of their bodies.
Ohio State University student Salah Mohammed is following in his parents’ footsteps, who are doctors at Lima Memorial. By working at the Lightbulb Lab, he hopes to inspire kids to enter the medical field much like he was inspired at a young age.
“I was introduced to medicine very early on. All my siblings are in the medical field, so seeing them, seeing my parents, seeing my siblings, go through that intense the rigorous schooling. And after shadowing my parents and general surgeons, I realized that this is what I love doing. And I want to be there for the person at the darkest time, and I want to see them get well,” says Salahuddin “Salah” Mohammed, OSU Second Year Undergrad.
Besides promoting health, the students also want to show the collaboration needed to work in medicine.
“We're trying to show that medicine is a collaborative effort that we can't know everything, no one can know everything, and we need to rely on our friends, our peers, our family, and even the people who did it before us to get to that point,” adds Mohammed.
The next Lightbulb Lab will be March 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Hub at Central District, 219 S. Central Ave., Lima, and the focus will be engineering and manufacturing.
