Downtown Biomed Update

My son begins 7th grade in the fall. Although he seems totally entranced by on-line gaming right now, he might decide he wants to be a doctor someday and he can attend the new Bioscience High School that just broke ground a couple of weeks ago. Located at Pierce and 5th Street, smack dab in the middle of the thriving biomed complex, the $10-million will have more than 50,000 square feet of classrooms, laboratories, and student workspace. The school won't open until Spring of 2007, but the first 9th grade class begins August 7th at the temporary site of Phoenix Prep Academy.

Speaking of on-line gaming, I saw on Channel 11 that the Downtown U of A Medical School is cutting edge high tech, using joysticks for scalpels, etc. Those historic buildings apparently are the envy of the medical school world.