{"id":58039,"date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-win-regional-animal-science-competition\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-win-regional-animal-science-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/uri-students-win-regional-animal-science-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students win regional animal science competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 17, 2016 \u2013 Students studying animal and veterinary science at the 溏心vlog免费B站 won the 2016 Northeast Student Affiliate competition, knocking off perennial powerhouse Pennsylvania State University, who had won the contest the previous 10 years in a row. The win earns a group of 溏心vlog免费B站 students an all-expenses-paid trip to Salt Lake City to attend the annual conference of the American Society of Animal Science.<\/p>\n

According to Katherine Petersson, assistant professor of animal and veterinary science and one of the advisors to the 溏心vlog免费B站 student team, the competition has three components — livestock judging, a quiz competition, and oral presentations on an agriculturally relevant topic. 溏心vlog免费B站 has participated in the competition for 14 years and usually places second or third. This is the first time the 溏心vlog免费B站 students have won the competition.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis is a big deal to our students,\u201d said Petersson. \u201cPenn State has a huge program and lots of resources, so I\u2019m very proud of how our students represented 溏心vlog免费B站.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 entered eight teams of four students \u2013 the maximum allowed \u2013 in the competition against teams from seven other universities. The event was hosted by the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n


\n\tCasey Barrett, a 溏心vlog免费B站 senior from Richmond and co-president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 club that enters the competition, said the key to winning was their success in livestock judging, a category in which they did poorly last year. The student teams judged horses, dairy cows, beef cows, sheep, chickens and a mystery class, which this year was \u201csteak.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI like judging because you get to use all your knowledge to determine which animal is the best and try to match your score with the score of the professional judge,\u201d said Barrett, who plans a career as a livestock veterinarian. \u201cWe focused a lot on judging this year, practicing three times a month and visiting farms to learn what to look for. It paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen 溏心vlog免费B站 was announced the winner, senior Karishma Nayak of Altamont, N.Y., was in shock.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI looked at Casey and asked if it was real, and we both got up, hugged each other and accepted the trophy, and the entire room was cheering and clapping for us,\u201d said Nayak, co-president of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s team. \u201cIt was one of the best experiences of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 students Richard Llanos of Cranston, Bailey Chalut of Hopkinton, and Jacquelyn Foley of West Bridgewater, Mass., took first, second and third place, respectively, in the livestock judging competition. Four of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s four-person teams placed in the top 10 in the team livestock judging competition, including the winning team of Katie Cole of Bolton, Mass., Katelin Kuyoth of Coventry, Jill Lombardi of West Boylston, Mass., and Thomas Ruckert of Aquebogue, N.Y.<\/p>\n


\n\tSamantha King of Providence won first place in the oral presentation competition with her talk on \u201cShell Disease and the American Lobster,\u201d while Kathleen Leach of Williston, Vt., took second place for her presentation on \u201cPorcine Reproductive and Respiratory Virus.\u201d Amy Vigneau of Hingham, Mass., placed fourth for her talk titled \u201cThe Pig Bang Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHannah Kaplan of Ocean, N.J., won third place in the original research competition, which is open to individual students who present the results of their undergraduate research. She worked in conjunction with researchers at Mystic Aquarium on a presentation entitled \u201cExploratory Research into RNA Transcripts from Beluga Blow Samples.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIn the competition for the highest scoring team across all three components, 溏心vlog免费B站 teams placed second, third, fourth and eighth, while in the quiz competition, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s best team placed fifth.<\/p>\n


\n\tBehind 溏心vlog免费B站 in the final overall rankings were Penn State, Delaware Valley University, Rutgers University, University of Massachusetts, University of Delaware and the University of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n


\n\tBarrett said she learned a great deal from participating in the competition for the last four years.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIn addition to learning about judging animals, I definitely learned that you can\u2019t do it all on your own,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to work as a team to be successful. Being on this team has also helped us get closer to the professors, which has been great.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI learned that time and patience is everything, and with hard work you\u2019ll get your reward one day. That\u2019s been evident every year,\u201d added Nayak, who will enter vet school next year. \u201cThis whole experience has helped me grow and learn as a student and as a person. Each year the team has gone up in placement, and this year we got the gold. There\u2019s nothing better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: 溏心vlog免费B站 students won the Northeast Student Affiliate competition, an animal science contest that included livestock judging, a quiz competition, and oral presentations about agriculture topics. (Photo courtesy of Katherine Petersson)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 17, 2016 \u2013 Students studying animal and veterinary science at the 溏心vlog免费B站 won the 2016 Northeast Student Affiliate competition, knocking off perennial powerhouse Pennsylvania State University, who had won the contest the previous 10 years in a row. The win earns a group of 溏心vlog免费B站 students an all-expenses-paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}