Ella Gwyneth Robinson

• Husbandry aide
• prepare and give diets
• clean enclosures
• administer medications
• provide enrichment
• daily handling / training

• Assist with surgeries
• Administer immunizations and subcutaneous fluids
• Place intravenous catheters
• Trim nails and clean ears
• Chart visits
• Check-in/ check-out clients
• Dispense medications
• Dog and cat handling
• 1000+ hours

• Assist with spay and neuter clinics and adopt-a-thons
• Administer immunizations, implant microchips, and trim nails
• Assist with orthopedic and ear surgeries
• Fostered three cats needing complex care after surgery for severe orthopedic injuries: two with external fixators and one with an intramedullary pin in his femur as well as a fractured pelvis
• 150+ hours

Judged on the Kansas State Dairy Judging Team

• Attended contests across the US
• Placed third in Jerseys at the World Dairy Expo - a prestigious international competition
• Placed well at several national contests
• learned to juggle classwork, practicing, and travelling
• Gained effective presentation skills from giving reasons

Halter-trained and showed dairy heifer

• prepared heifer for showing
• learned how to handle, train, and show a dairy heifer
• trained heifer to walk and set up correctly in the show ring
• Showed a heifer at LAR

Worked with Kansas State Dairy Nutrition graduate student on research:

• measured feed ingredients and fed to study cows
• noted down data
• acclimated pregnant cows to automatic feed bunks
• Cleaned pens
• moved fresh cows to milking parlor
• managed emergency situations calmly when they arose by following established safety protocols

• Company Overview: Adventures in Veterinary Medicine Summer Program (online due to COVID)
• Lectures by Tufts faculty including internal medicine specialist and exotic animal veterinarian
• Practiced bandaging and suturing
• Session on how to read x-rays
• Solved case study resulting in diagnosis of heartworm
• Adventures in Veterinary Medicine Summer Program (online due to COVID)
• Lectures by Tufts faculty including internal medicine specialist and exotic animal veterinarian

• Received training in rabbit, cat, and dog handling and rabbit grooming
• Socialize the residents of the shelter to prepare them for successful adoption
• 130+ hours

• Volunteered over 200 hours at my local church in community outreach programs
• Repaired and landscaped homes for local low-income residents
• Prepped and participated in numerous activities for community children including summer art camps, bike rallies, Olympics themed physical fitness activities, trunk-or-treating, and a holiday light drive-thru
• Packed food for feeding programs in third world countries
• Served meals at homeless shelters
• I have an artistic bent and therefore frequently contributed to the activities by painting or crafting the needed murals and props as well as playing a leadership role in the events themselves

• Company Overview: Internship at a 6,000-cow dairy farm and the owner's veterinary clinic
• Handled cats and dogs
• Cleaned rooms
• Observed orthopedic surgeries, neuters, and a spay operation to treat pyometra
• Helped in the calving barn and with tube feeding calves
• Assisted with embryo implantation, fertilization procedures, and pregnancy checks
• Internship at a 6,000-cow dairy farm and the owner's veterinary clinic

• Cleaned cages and socialized guinea pigs

• Hand fed baby birds, prepared food bowls, cleaned cages, and washed laundry and dishes