Chelsea Billings, a 9th-grade honors student at Oak Hill High School, was nominated as a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders to be held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell this summer:
“It means a lot to me. I think it’ll be like a great opportunity to see what career path I want to go to. It’ll give me a lot of experience… I’m really excited yet nervous to meet so many people.”
Billings will join fellow honors students from across the nation to hear Nobel laureates, see medical demonstrations, and find guidance to future careers in medicine. Billings hopes to become a neurologist.
“I love helping people. I think if someone goes to the hospital, they should… get the help they need.”
Billings says her desire to help others is inspired in part by her English teacher:
“Mr. Pritt: He inspires me about how noble he is to stand up for what he thinks is right.”
Mr. David Elliot Pritt [R] is a teacher at Oak Hill High School and a delegate to WV District 050. He says Billings’ nomination is wonderful for her and for the school:
“I’m actually very, very proud of Miss Billings for getting this honor. And I really can’t think of anybody at this age group that would be better suited to represent our school and our county at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders… She’s kind, she’s super intelligent, and she listens—and those are qualities that a lot of her peers do not quite possess at this age. So I think it’s going to be great for her and it’ll be great for us.”
