Lauren Steele received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Mississippi State University in 2011. She has work experience as a nature director and counselor at a summer camp for individuals with disabilities. She currently works as a lab technician in the Plant and Soil Sciences Environmental Soils Lab at Mississippi State, assisting with graduate research and soil sample processing and analysis. She has research experience in social psychology labs and has presented her work at an undergraduate research symposium.

1. Lauren Steele
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Education
2011 Mississippi State University
Psychology
Bachelors of Science
Overall GPA: 3.3 Psychology GPA: 3.7
Work Experience
06/01/12-08/18/12 Wisconsin Badger Camp, Prairie du Chein, Wisconsin
Summer Camp for individuals with disabilities
Nature Director
Decipher gross and fine motor skills to be utilized by campers when performing
activities
Create 22 lesson plans weekly
Design modifications to activities (i.e. a camper using a wheelchair, or a camper
who is blind)
Provide step-by-step directions about activities to campers, often working one-
on-one to provide example or performing hand-over-hand in some instances
Perform health checks on campers during registration (includes taking
temperature, weight, height, checking for scratches or bruises)
Collaborate with fellow directors to plan and implement night activities for
campers
Aid counselors in getting campers ready in mornings and evenings (includes
dressing, grooming, toileting, etc.)
Provide care for barn animals and maintain barn area
Assemble a weekly news blurb describing what campers accomplished in Nature
during the week
Design themed decorations weekly for campers
Assume night watch duties
Generate an end of the year report for designated area
Counselor
Provide constant care and supervision to a small group of campers with
disabilities. Includes:
-Feeding (special diets, food cutting, etc.)
-Dressing
-Toileting
-Ensuring Safety

2. -Hygiene
-Medications
Manage behavior
Be available emotionally
Fill out incident reports
Write our comments and observation forms concerning all assigned campers
Record data pertaining to assigned campers
Assume night and noon watch duties
05/05-Current Plant and Soil Sciences Environmental Soils Lab, Mississippi State, MS
Lab Technician
Assist in graduate research
Mix chemicals for appropriate solutions
Process soil samples
Collect soil samples
Set up, calibrate, and operate carbon analyzer and nutrient spectrometer
Check soil sample pH and conductivity
Enter data into Excel spreadsheets
Perform research techniques to acquire data analysis for research projects
Research Experience
01/2009 – 05/2011 Advanced Social Psychology Project Lab. Primary Investigator- Dr. Colleen
Sinclair Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Research Assistant
Virtual Dating Game Study- Research Assistant
Experimental study examining social network influence on romantic
relational formation
Guided participants through experiment
Oversaw confederates
Acted as a confederate
Political Psychology Project- Research Assistant
Experimental study examining likelihood to conform in a political
discussion
Media Coding Project- Research Assistant
Archival study examining courtship persistence styles present in
television and movies
Other Lab Responsibilities
Helped create the revised rejection insensitivity scale with Dr. Colleen
Sinclair
Helped create the revised stalking myths scale with Dr. Colleen Sinclair
Developed online psychological surveys with specialized software
Teaching Experience
Psychology Statistics Laboratory
Lectured students on statistical methods
Helped students with lab assignments on SPSS
Created lesson plans and test questions

3. Presentations
Steele, L.S., and Sinclair, H.C. (2011). Reacting with Reactance: The influence of
reactive responses to social network opinions on romantic decisions. Poster
presented at the 2011 Undergraduate Research Symposium in Starkville, MS. April
21, 2011.
Awards
2011 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University; 2nd
place winner overall poster presentation
Affiliations
Psi Chi Honor Society
President's Scholar
Alpha Epsilon Delta (pre-professional organization)
Circle K (Community Service)
Psychology Club
Student Association's Peer Tutoring and Academic Mentoring Program
Community Outreach Experience
Project Pass, Community Service
Duties include meeting with a high school student weekly to mentor and
assist with schoolwork, play games, talk, etc.
The Big Event, Fundraiser
Duties included various service projects around the Starkville
community such as providing assistance at the Salvation Army.
Cookies for Kids Cancer Bake Sale, Fundraiser
Duties included baking and selling cookies for a bake sale designed to
raise money to benefit pediatric cancer research
Circle K, Community Service Club
Made dry meals to send overseas
Assisted with yard work for the elderly
Sold coffee to raise money for kids in Kenya
New Orleans Mission, Community Service
Worked on a community clean-up team to help with recovery from
Hurricane Katrina
Worked in a community soup kitchen
Jacksonville Mission, Community Service
Mentored and played with underprivileged center city kids
Worked in a community soup kitchen feeding homeless
Mended and sorted clothes in a salvage store where proceeds benefited
the less fortunate and homeless
Additional Skills
First Aid Certified, CPR Certified, Computer Skills, SPSS, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Office Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Online Survey
Creation, Human Subjects training
References
References available upon request