By Shannon Lukens.

SoRoCo High School has received a very generous gift of an Anatomage Dissection Table. It’s a digital anatomy and physiology learning tool. The machine features lifesized human bodies, or animals, in digital formats that helps students and those in medical fields to see and study biology and physiology.

 

A presentation of the Anatomage was made at the school on Wednesday. Alyvia Cox is a senior at SoRoCo High School who plans to go to college to become a Registered Nurse.

“This table is very beneficial to me because I get to see it hands-on, instead of getting hold of a cadaver. It’s not physical, but it is like technologically a cadaver that I can see every single piece of the human body.”

Valeria Banda is a senior at SoRoCo High School.

“It is special because we get to see the full body, something that you don’t want to see a real body, obviously! We’re just seniors. We get the actual experience, and get to be hands-on it. We get to dissect. We get to see labor. We get to see the heart, and honestly, it’s super fun. We get to play around with it. You get to touch it and it has so many parts to it. Stuff that we haven’t even explored yet.”

Jeannie Jo Logan with SoRoCo High School says the Anatomage Dissection Table will be available for all schools in Moffat and Routt County to use, including students at CMC and CNCC.

“The idea is that all the students in the health science pathways, on Fridays or whatever day, we can have labs and the students can come in and use this table. And it’s essentially a human cadaver in the table. And so these kids that are learning about nursing, biotechnology, anything in the science pathway, can come in and learn off this table.”

There are also ipads available for kids to use, if it is a large class.

Routt County residents Nick and Robbin Schoewe are the donors of the machine, of which there are only five in the State of Colorado.