Have you ever had to walk a straight line for a law enforcement officer? Thinks it’s simple? St. Thomas More School student Owen Zievili thought it was until he had to wear goggles that gave him a vision of what it would be like if he had a 0.17 alcohol level in his system.

With the help of Lehigh Valley Health Network, Olympus and the Da Vinci Science Center, STM students were able to experience hands-on medical situations recently.

Dr. Sarah Sapienza has been organizing this event for the last two years.

“My goal is to show the students that there’s more to health care than just being a doctor,” Sapienza said. “Because that’s what I am, it’s easy for me to show them that part of what medicine is all about. There’s a lot of science in medicine, there’s technology in medicine. You don’t have to be a doctor to be part of health care and that’s really what this is all about.”

“Today is super fun. Going around stations, we are learning about different body systems,” student Massimo Sankar told The Press. She enjoyed the eyeball station the most, learning about how eyes work.

Sankar’s classmate Charlotte Hood agreed going around the stations was a fun way to learn.

“It really feels like we are in a hospital. It’s kinda like that environment where we get to do hands-on stuff and learn. It was fun.”