Mission Statement

"The Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) is an 8th – 12th grade math and science program which encourages aspirations, opens doors and empowers minority and (African American) and disadvantaged students and rural communities."

The hope of HSTA is to increase the number of African American and

underrepresented high school students in West Virginia that pursue post-secondary

education in the health sciences and to increase the number of health practitioners in

the medically under served communities of West Virginia.

HSTA is currently funded by a Science Education Partnership Award RR – 12329 –

01 from the National Institutes of Health, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Math & Science

Act, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Coca-Cola, W. W. Kellogg, Claude Benedum

Foundations, Stanley & Virginia Hostler, and the WV State Legislature.