Please share this opportunity with your local middle school administrators, counselors, science teachers and youth groups.
Vet Set Go together with Merck Animal Health and VCA Animal Hospitals is inviting rising sixth, seventh and eighth grade students to enter the sixth annual Vet Set Go Become a Veterinarian Camp Contest 2022.
The online essay contest will award three prizes for tween and teen students to attend the Auburn University’s Junior Vet Camp from June 26 to July 1, 2022, at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, one of the nation’s premiere veterinarian schools. Student entrants are asked to complete a short online essay (300 words or less) that addresses at least one of three topics.
Source: Vet Set Go, February 24, 2022. Link. “Vet Set Go is proud to offer young aspiring veterinarians a unique opportunity to access the in-person, hands-on veterinary experience they are craving. Our surveys show 65 percent of today’s veterinarians decided before the age of 13 it was the career path they wanted to pursue,” adds Chris Carpenter, DVM, Vet Set Go founder and president.
Speaking from my own experience, having the passion to care for animals begins at an early age; and yet, it can be challenging for young <people> to find . . . opportunities to gain hands-on animal health experience. . . “- Christine Royal, DVM, Merck Animal Health.
INSIGHTS: Kudos to Vet Set Go, VCA and Merck for developing and supporting this important initiative. We’re confident future animal health professionals will come from this early opportunity and from other industry-sponsored internships.
Vet Set Go is the first and only web community dedicated to helping teen and tween aspiring veterinarians explore their passion.