Sixth-grade students at John F. Kennedy Middle School in North Miami Beach recently got a lesson in emergency preparedness, when they took part in a hurricane simulation at the Miami-Dade County Emergency Operations Center, as reported by The Miami Herald. Conducted by StormZone, a 12 year old nonprofit program funded by Weather Expositions of America, and sponsored by Ashbritt Environmental, the program is designed to educate students about the challenges involved with planning and responding to natural disasters.
“The JFK Middle School experience at the Miami-Dade County Emergency Operations Center enables students to assume the roles of local government, learn problem-solving principles used by emergency managers and make the decisions necessary to respond to a disaster in their community,” said StormZone founding director Bay Proby.
As part of the exercise, which involved a hurricane making landfall in South Florida, the students acted as and coordinated activities including firefighting, transportation, law enforcement, and medical assistance, among others, and closed with a press conference and Q&A session to discuss the outcomes of the event.
Source: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article237371374.html
