Your project name: Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship

 

The challenges that my project will address:

This project will help me better care for and learn how to help injured animals, which I come in contact with regularly, and don’t always know how to correctly treat. This experience will also allow me to see if a possible career in veterinary science interests me, and it will also provide me with valuable skills that I can use in the future when caring for injured wildlife I come across, and farm animals.

 

My essential questions:

• How do you give injured animals the best chance of having the opportunity to be released back into their natural habitat?
• How does treatment differ for different types of animals, wild and domestic, and how do you learn what types of treatment techniques are best?
• How can learning the best methods to use when caring for injured/sick wildlife, help me to better care for animals on my farm (chickens, geese, sheep, and wild animals), especially since vets aren’t trained to support long-term health?

 

What if any steps, experiences, or products have you identified as necessary for answering your essential question?

I want to do an internship with an organization that helps to rehabilitate wildlife and to accomplish that I have reached out to a number of organizations, one of which has welcomed me to fill out an application, and another suggested I reach out again in the spring. I’m not yet sure how I want to present what I learn from my experience in these internships, but that might look like a video of clips I put together, or a poster with photos of animals I supported/cared for.

 

What form do you propose your project take? 

I do know a lot about caring for farm animals, and cats/dogs, but I don’t ever get the opportunity to be around and help rehabilitate injured/sick wildlife specifically different types of bird species which I believe is the area I would most enjoy focusing on when thinking about pursuing a career in the veterinary science field. I hope to spend my time working directly with injured animals and observing techniques done by professional veterinarians to better learn how to care for and treat certain animals with specific health-related issues. I also would probably like to continue calculus int0 my third trimester with Manjula and will do this while I’m also doing my senior project.

 

What do you hope to learn through this experience? How do you see the proposed experience addressing your essential question? How will you know you have had a successful project?

I hope to learn if this is something I want to pursue in college, and as a career, since it is one of my many interests. I also want to learn what types of animals are injured most often, what types of injures they are, why those animals are being disproportionally affected, and what many rescue/sanctuary/rehabilitation centers are doing to prevent those types of injures further. I will have has a successful senior project if I am able to spend lots of time around animals and help veterinarians to care for and treat them. I know I will learn new skills and figure out if this is what I want to do with the rest of my life.

Presentation for Pitch: Senior Project Pitch Slideshow