Former Olathe South graduates have gotten into contact with Kristin Ramshaw, science teacher, and are talking to current students after school to explain their careers in the science and medical profession.

So far there have been nine guest speakers that have come to the school to talk about their different careers including nurses both CNA and RN and physical therapists.

The guest speakers come in at random times based on their school or work schedules.

The topics that have been talked about so far are mostly in the biological fields which includes microbiology and plant biology.

About 60 students have come to listen to these speakers after school from 3:10-4 p.m.

“They have to go to two outside lectures per semester and they can come to those if they want to or they can go somewhere else if they want to,” said Ramshaw about her Honors Biology class.

Extra credit is not available for the students that choose to attend these after-school lectures.

Ramshaw reached out to most of her former students though social media; three of the guest speakers were not her former students.

Robin Dennis, science teacher, also spoke after school about education.

Ramshaw has been doing these after-school lectures for five years.

A few of the students that have come to the lectures are from upper level biology classes and the Bioengineering program.

Ramshaw’s favorite topic was “probably microbiology. Jacob Nichols, he’s at K-State and he’s working in a CRISPR lab, and just because I’m so into genetics, so I found that really fascinating,” she said.