{"id":5521,"date":"2016-08-29T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:17:02","slug":"green-runs-breanna-frawley-selected-usda-agdiscovery-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/green-runs-breanna-frawley-selected-usda-agdiscovery-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Run\u2019s Brenna Frawley selected for USDA AgDiscovery camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brenna Frawley has always known, in her heart, that she wants to be a veterinarian. However, a two-week camp earlier this summer, helped cement that desire for this 17-year-old.<\/p>\n

The rising Green Run High School senior was one of just 16 high school students nationwide selected to take part in the sixth annual United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored, AgDiscovery program held at Iowa State University (ISU).<\/p>\n

The AgDiscovery program is designed to help high school students learn about careers in agricultural sciences. Specifically, the program at ISU focused on careers in plant and animal science and wildlife management. During the two-week program, students lived on the Iowa State college campus and learned about agriculture from university professors and scientists. In addition, according to ISU, students got to have firsthand experience in things such as anatomy, immunology, epidemiology and other veterinary diagnostic procedures.<\/p>\n

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Breanna Frawley (front row, right) stands with her AgDiscovery program group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt was a packed schedule from 7 o\u2019clock in the morning typically to 9 at night,\u201d Frawley said of her time in the program. She shared that her group took part in all kinds of day trips that gave insight into the day-to-day work in careers that work with animals.<\/p>\n

For example, they traveled to the local airport to meet with the wildlife control staff and talk about how they best protect the local animals from all of the demands of air travel. One day, the group went out to see the USDA offices and learned how to draw blood from animals as well as all of the ins and outs related to egg candling (or looking at an egg through light to see how the chicken inside is forming).<\/p>\n

Frawley\u2019s favorite times, though, were when they shadowed veterinarians in local animal shelters and could see\u00a0the work they were doing up close and personal.<\/p>\n

“It really helped me determine what I wanted to do with my future,\u201d Frawley said. \u201cThere were a few days we focused on the things you would do as a vet – just watching it, it was like, \u2018This is everything I want.\u2019 That\u2019s exciting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her excitement in becoming a veterinarian is well known through her circle of friends at Green Run. In fact,\u00a0Frawley first out about the AgDiscovery program\u00a0from her Christian Leadership Club sponsor, who knew Frawley had a passion for veterinary care.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe brought it to me, and that\u2019s what we started from,\u201d Frawley said. \u201cIt was really exciting. It was something I really wanted to do. This was like a now-or-never situation. I didn\u2019t know what to do with myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a long application process, which included recommendations as well as an essay detailing her career aspirations, Frawley learned she was selected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Yes, yes, yes!\u2019,\u201d she said now with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Now that she has attended the program herself,\u00a0Frawley highly recommends other high school students look into an AgDiscovery program, which is open for students ages 15-17.<\/p>\n

\u201cI walked away with a lot of knowledge,\u201d she said. \u201cI would say to definitely give this program a try.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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