6. This helped me to learn: negotiation skills,
public speaking, teamwork, recruitment
tactics, and to view the big picture.
• Served as captain my
Junior and Senior year
• Helped to recruit players
• Volunteered for Winchester and Ashland
Youth soccer teams, salvation army, and
Jacksonville food pantry
• Led tours to prospective
players and their families
7. This helped me to learn: Office skills,
phone skills, data analysis, MS
Office, typing, public speaking, and
communication
• Assembled Financial aid packages
• Analyzed survey data concerning student
costs
•Lobbied for Illinois MAP grant
9. I took advantage of some Awesome opportunities:
• Collaborative greenhouse project
• Collected and classified area insects
• Jacksonville town brook
• cleanup project
• Illinois Audubon Society bird banding
• Biology club Vice President
• Measured invertebrate biodiversity in
area waterways
•Took traveling scientist program to
two area elementary schools.
10. Long name, big experiences
Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area
13. • Performed trail maintenance
• completed prescribed burns
•Organized a youth/lady wingshooting clinic
•Banded hummingbirds
•Ran the site office and several hunting programs
•Assisted DNR Fisheries in stocking and surveying several ponds
•Mapped/maintained 8 bluebird and 4 kestrel box routes
•Worked with the conservation police to monitor illegal fishing and hunting
•Participated in a Monarch butterfly study
•Controlled invasive species
•Revamped the wildflower walk after the drought
•Balanced and deposited campground sales and profits
•Trained 3 site interns
At JEPC I,
… and so much more.
14. • I was accepted into their GPSI program
•Hired by Illinois EPA
15. All images used during this
presentation are my personal
property or used with permission
from MacMurray College and UIS.
