Agricultural Institute Students Get Experience with Internships
Agricultural Institute Students Get Experience with Internships NC State CALS
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Students Showcase Summer Internship Experiences at Poster Session
Actions speak louder than words, especially when it comes to practical job experience.
That’s why 84 second-year students from the Agricultural Institute highlighted their summer internship experiences during a poster session on Nov. 17 at Talley Student Union.
Students shared internship experiences ranging from beekeeping and turfgrass and sod management to poultry and swine production with more than 100 faculty, industry representatives, and fellow Ag Institute students. The event was held in conjunction with an industry luncheon for all first-year students.
Connecting Internships with Sustainable Development Goals
It is a great way to showcase the students who did internships and to get first-year students excited about internships for next year. Faculty get to further connect with students about the impact and outcomes of their internships, and industry reps get to talk to past and potential future interns!
Student Experiences
Hogan Randall and Izabella Wernett, two of the students who presented posters, say their summer internships were invaluable. Randall, an agribusiness management major, served as an operations intern with the Wyndham Championship PGA golf tournament, and Wernett, a general agriculture major, completed an internship in sow farming with Murphy Family Ventures.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in the future and then I ended up getting this internship. I started working more with them and I learned to love it a lot. – Hogan Randall
I decided to do this internship and I actually fell in love with it. I liked helping the sows during birth. – Izabella Wernett
Future Goals
Randall hopes to return to the Wyndham Championship as a senior intern next summer and pursue job opportunities in tournament management. Wernett, on the other hand, wants to have her own sow farm and be a first-generation farmer, the first in her family to own a farm.
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