Hello! My name is Emma Staples. I am 18 years old and a freshman at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, majoring in Molecular Biology and minoring in Chemistry. I am planning on going to medical school and becoming a doctor! In order to achieve my goals, I am focusing on five main categories: good grades, service, leadership, research, and shadowing! With these categories in mind, I have already accomplished so much in my first and second semester. I have so far maintained a 4.0 gpa in the honors program, and I am working with a graduate student to complete my own research project! Right now, my research focuses on ticks and what microclimate factors affect their nymphal emergences in the spring and fall. For service, not only have I completed over 15 hours, but I also put on my own service event called "For Our Feathered Friends" on March 27th. Many students volunteered to build over 48 bird toys for a local bird rescue! I am also a part of many different clubs such as: Freshman Lead (where I get to design my own service projects), Tribeta (honors biology club), Clean 4 Cards (club for picking up trash on campus), MAPS (Multicultural Association of Prehealth Students), the poetry committee for the White Squirrel Literary Magazine, and the Lions Club (a service organization)! I also have big goals for the future. This summer I plan on volunteering at Owensboro Health and volunteering for a nonprofit where we host a radio show to read local newspapers for the blind. I also plan on participating in lots of shadowing opportunities at Owensboro Health!

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• Advocacy
• Volunteering

• marching band

  Varsity

  2017 – 2021

• Swimming

  Junior Varsity

  2016 – 2017

• I will be identifying tick species and help collect them in field work, as well as taking microclimate data.

  Dr. Piggs lab · Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology

  2022 – Present

  Research topic:

  Ticks

• Leader/Organizer

  Owensboro Technical Community College · Zoology/Animal Biology

  2021 – 2021

  Research topic:

  Bacterial Swabbing Animals

• Co-Capitan

  Owensboro Catholic: Marching Band (5 years), Winter Percussion (5 years), Winter Winds (1 year), Solo and Ensemble (2 years), All District (1 year), Concert Band (6 years). · Music

  2017 – 2020

• Built toys for birds during my own event!

  Volunteering · Freshman Lead

  2023 – 2023

• Proxy for Logan

  Volunteering · Engage Lead Serve Board

  2023 – 2023

• Sold baked treats on Valentines day to donate money to the Eastern KY flood victims.

  Volunteering · Lions Club

  2023 – 2023

• Blood Drive Tabling

  Volunteering · Lions Club

  2023 – 2023

• Volunteer - We spent 5 hours wrapping and then delivering gifts to seniors.

  Volunteering · Home Instead Senior Care

  2018 – 2018

  Mission:

  We spent 5 hours wrapping and then delivering gifts to seniors! We also stayed to visit with those who had no one to celebrate christmas with.

• Member; To help with anything I can around the school or our community! I helped with football games, cleaning classrooms, and more.

  Volunteering · National Honors Society

  2020 – 2022

  Mission:

  To help with anything I can around the school or our community Owensboro! Sometimes I volunteer to cheer at marathons, donate dog food to shelters, direct traffic in parking lots for school football games, or simply clean up classrooms for teachers!

• Volunteer; I helped local nonprofit Love the Hungry fill food bags for the community.

  Volunteering · Freshman Lead

  2022 – 2022

  Mission:

  Helped local nonprofit Love the Hungry fill food bags for the community.

• Volunteer; I made baskets and blankets for Women's and Families Shelter of Louisville

  Volunteering · Freshman Lead

  2022 – 2022

  Mission:

  To make baskets and blankets for Women's and Families Shelter of Louisville

• Volunteer; I screened patients for diabetes!

  Volunteering · Lions Club

  2022 – 2022

  Mission:

  Diabetes Screening

• Volunteer/Cleaning Committee. I clean signs, tables, chairs, and outdoor monuments.

  Volunteering · Clean 4 Cards

  2022 – Present

  Mission:

  To clean signs, tables, chairs, and outdoor monuments.

• Volunteer; I picked up trash around campus

  Volunteering · Lions Club

  2022 – 2022

  Mission:

  Pick up trash around campus

• Staff; I was a teacher for Religious Education program! I helped teach different classes, like 1-5th graders, and we had fun classes every Sunday before mass.

  Volunteering · Blessed Mother Church

  2018 – 2020

  Mission:

  I was a teacher for Religious Education program! I helped teach different classes, like 1-5th graders, and we had fun classes every Sunday before mass.

• Volunteer; I helped wrap and donate gifts during Christmas to the Pitino Shelter in Owensboro, KY! The Pitino Shelter holds homeless women and children.

  Volunteering · Pitino Shelter

  2018 – 2019

  Mission:

  To wrap and donate gifts to the Pitino Shelter in Owensboro, KY! The Pitino Shelter holds homeless women and children.