End of Week 1

Project:

Internship Site: Wild Animal Park

Department: Elephant

Project Title: Unknown

General Description: For my project, I'm going to help make the Keeper Daily Report more user friendly as they switch from doing hand written reports to keeping all the reports on the computer. I'm also going to write an essay about everything that I learn during my experience working in the elephant department.

Learning Objectives:
To learn what it takes to run small part of a zoo, such as the elephant exhibit, and to learn what it takes to run the zoo as a whole.

Organization/Company Objectives and Benefits:
The elephant department will benefit from the work I do on the Keeper Daily Report

Academic/Technical Skills:
Time management, organization, listening, observation

Collaboration-Skills and Opportunities:
Working with my mentor to make the Keeper Daily Report better.

Exhibition Plans:
I will have a PowerPoint in which each slide briefly explains a part of my essay and there will be pictures that show what is being explained. I will use this PowerPoint during my POL on the 29th. I will also have hard copies of my essay and a printout of the Keeper Daily Report available.

Schedule and Time lines:
To be determined.

My Week:
This week was very fun and I learned a lot. On Friday morning I had the opportunity to see the animal hospital at the Wild Animal Park which was really cool because there were a few animals there that I had never known about before. After that, I went to work with the keepers. Later that day, the vet came to look at a couple of the elephants and to give another her tetnus shot. That was pretty interesting to watch because they had to dart her with the shot and then pull it out really fast but cautiously. Throughout the week, my main challenge was just getting used to being in such a new environment. It's a lot different than school.