Heart screening to be held in memory of deceased Meadowdale student
The Nick of Time Foundation is hosting youth heart screening services tomorrow at Meadowdale High School (MHS) in honor of deceased MHS student Matthew Truax.
The screening will be hosted at MHS on Feb. 12 from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Truax died in Sep. 2013 after collapsing in a physical education class at MHS while running. It was later discovered he died of cardiac arrest.
The Nick of Time foundation seeks to raise awareness and help in detecting heart conditions before they lead to serious medical problems.
According to the Nick of Time website, “The Nick of Time Foundation is dedicated to educating schools, athletes, families, and communities about Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and death in young people.”
Registration was due Monday, Jan. 6., and is now closed.
Nick Fiorillo is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hawkeye and thehawkeye.org. This is Nick's second year of serving as editor. Last year, he led the Hawkeye in one of the organization's most dramatic transformations in decades, replacing the broadsheet newspaper with a feature based newsmagazine and an emphasis on online content.
Prior to serving as editor-in-chief, Nick was the local news editor during his sophomore year and was a staff reporter during his freshman year.
Nick was named as the 2014 Free Spirit Scholar from Washington state, and traveled to Washington, D.C. as the Washington state delegate to the 2014 Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference. He has received several state and national awards for journalism, including several JEA National Write-off Competition Awards. He was recently awarded the rating of "Superior" for Editorial Writing at the Spring 2014 JEA/NSPA High School Journalism Conference in San Diego, Calif.
His interests include journalism, politics, public policy, law and education. He plans on attending a four-year university and majoring in political science and social policy.
You can view his pressfolio here.
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This Friday, parents can get a head start on their holiday shopping or have a child-free date night by dropping of their kids off at Meadowdale High School during the Parent’s Night Out babysitting fundraiser. The money raised will fund heart screenings at the school — motivated by the tragic death of Meadowdale student Matthew Truax in September due to an undiagnosed heart condition.