About
OUR PURPOSE
Vet Set Go is the first and only community dedicated to helping elementary, middle school and high school aspiring veterinarians. Our goal is simple, ENCOURAGE future veterinarians to explore their dream and show them HOW they can do it today.
Our goal is simple, ENCOURAGE future veterinarians to explore their dream and show them HOW they can do it today.
Since its launch, Vet Set Go has provided scholarships to veterinary camps, given away tens of thousands of books, and provided free educational content and games to hundreds of thousands of future veterinarians across the globe via its website.
Watch this video as Dr. Carpenter discusses Vet Set Go with AKC TV host Carolyn Manno.
GETTING ANIMAL and VETERINARY EXPERIENCE
Veterinary medicine is the only profession where the majority of its members, made their career decision before they were 13 years of age. Each year, millions of new elementary and middle school students make their own decision to become animal doctors. They are looking for guidance on how they can explore their dream. Vet Set Go is here to support them by helping them get the animal and veterinary experience they crave.
SHADOWING VETERINARIANS
Shadowing a veterinarian is one of the best ways to explore veterinary medicine. You’ll get a firsthand look at the day in the life of a veterinarian. If you plan well, you’ll be able to work with different types of veterinarians and explore the many general practice and specialty opportunities veterinarians have.
Vet Set Go’s Vet Volunteer App is only free app that helps aspiring veterinarians find volunteer opportunities near their home and track their hours for veterinary college. It contains a national directory of organizations that welcome aspiring veterinarians as volunteers while at the same time providing an easy and accurate way for students to track their hours for future veterinary applications.
CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS
Every year, we provide scholarships to veterinary camps such as the Junior Veterinary Camp at Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine. These camps allow aspiring veterinarians to explore veterinary medicine and begin building a lifelong love of science.
"Not only did she have the time of her life ... she also walked away with a new love of science.”
BOOKS
Vet Set Go also offers the award-winning Vet Set Go! book. This book provides future veterinarians ideas on what they can do today to explore their dream of becoming a veterinarian. It has six chapters of information on how they can avoid age barriers and begin shadowing veterinarians, volunteering, and working with shelter animals today. This book is a Mom’s Choice award winner. It also won the Benjamin Franklin award for Best Book in the Youth Non-fiction category.
ON-LINE COURSES
Shadowing a veterinarian is one of the best ways for an aspiring vet to learn what the day in the life of a veterinarian entails. By following a veterinarian through their normal day in the hospital, students are able to see up close the wide variety of activities that make up a veterinarian’s day. Vet Set Go is on only organization the provides online courses that teaches aspiring veterinarians everything the need to know about shadowing a veterinarian from how to find an opportunity to what to wear on their shadowing day.
INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO SCIENCE
Vet Set Go encourages all aspiring veterinarians to build a love of science as strong as their love for animals.
SCIENCE BOOKS and ON-LINE COURSES
Our book, "Beneath the Skin, Scale, Fur & Feather", presents anatomy to students in a fun and original way. In each chapter, students explore a structure of the body in dogs and then learn how this organ system has adapted in other animals.
Each illustration is original artwork. These beautiful and precise medical illustrations were created just for "Beneath the Skin, Scale, Fur & Feather" and show students the structures of a wide variety of exotic animals like elephants, anteaters, bats and alligators.
This book serves as a textbook for our Introduction to Animal Anatomy course. Through 26 video lessons this on-line course goes over through important anatomy subjects such as the skull, the arms, the eyes, the heart, eating and digestion.
FREE ARTICLES
In our free “Science of Veterinary Medicine” section, we share cases and teach basic scientific concepts such as hypothermia, cataracts of the eye, echocardiograms, and neurologic conditions from neck injuries.
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR CAUSE?
Vet Set Go is a social purpose company. The sale of our products supports our scholarship, online course, and book giveaways to middle and high school students across the US and Canada. If you buy a Vet Set Go product, you are helping us provide free services and products to future veterinarians.
The more people buy our products, the more support we can provide to future veterinarians in need and connect with others who may have never considered veterinary medicine as a career option.
Please support Vet Set Go and the veterinarians of tomorrow!
Vet Set Go resides in the state of Florida. In 2014, Florida joined a number of states that permit benefit and social purpose corporations. What was once the exclusive realm of not-for-profit organizations is now open to businesses that focus on socially beneficial activities like ours.
