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They are students who • Develop habits that will enable them to learn independently and seek what they want and need to know at any point in their lives. • Demonstrate independence in their learning by setting goals and making plans to achieve those goals. • Seek opportunities to take risks and pursue new learning ventures in order to find enjoyable ways to express and develop talents.

To give an example of how I possess this quality, I will share with you a picture from when we presented our 2011 science fair projects. My project was about the color preference of domestic chickens between red, yellow, blue, and green. Their favorite was yellow. To find this information, I researched past experiments on chickens about their eye sight and color preferences as well as conducting my own experiment along with my partner.



Another example of how I possess this quality is when I shadow with an equine vet. This is a picture of a cast that I helped him put on a horse that had a large laceration on her ankle from barbed wire.



My final example of how I possess this quality is my senior science fair project. I trained a goat to present her hooves and this made hoof trims less stressful for her, the vets, and the keepers in charge of her. For this project, I won third place at the Metropolitan Science and Engineering Fair for vertebrae behavior. This is a picture of me and my board at the fair.

