Students from Augusta Tech's Medical Assisting Program had a great opportunity to support the community they serve. They were asked to assist with physicals for the children in the CSRA Head Start Program. The students performed vision and hearing tests, blood pressure testing, and hemoglobin tests.

Augusta Tech's Medical Assisting students and instructors pictured:

Kneeling on front row from left to right are students Bobbie Herndon, Erin Wise, and Leigh Anne Boostrom.

Middle row from left to right: Instructor Karon Walton; students, Leah Ballard, Shaundrica Gibson, Ricola Johnson, Natalie Elam, Christa Peckham and Instructor Shannon Henninger.

Back row from left to right are students Latoya Washington, Amber Greene, Jennifer Woods, and Cathryn Corlew.

Medical Assisting student Shaundrica Gibson performs a hearing test on a child from the Head Start Program. This experience was very rewarding to Gibson who was a former Head Start student.

Natalie Elam (left), Augusta Tech Medical Assisting student, gets some assistance from Instructor Shannon Henninger (right) as they prepare a hemoglobin test for children in the Head Start program.