Swimming laps in the pool at East Baltimore’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Alvin Winn often wonders how, exactly, his lungs function.
“I’m on the swim team,” the 10th-grader explains. “It makes me think a lot about breathing and what happens when people have difficulty with it.”
One of almost 100 Dunbar students enrolled in the school’s fledgling Pathways in Technology Early College High School program, Alvin, like his classmates, is already working toward an associate’s degree in the health care field from Baltimore City Community College. At just 15, he’s on a path toward a college degree and a job in respiratory services at Johns Hopkins Hospital.