Saunders County 4-H Smore
January 24, 2020
In this week's Smore...
** Did you know that new items added are BOLDED?!?
- Special Garden Project Seed Order
- Catch-A-Critter Info
- SC Shooting Sports
- Market Beef Update - Beef Weigh in
- Scholarship
- Friends of 4-H & Extension Seeking ideas
- Shotgun Shooting Sports
- 4-H Enrollment Open for 2020
- Innovative Youth Corn Challenge
- Omaha Fashion Week
- Volunteer Screening Changes
- OXBOW Vet Clinics
- Great Plains Livestock Judging Circuit
- 2020 District Horse Show Dates
- 4-H Cat Club
- NCC Judging Contest
- Online Horticulture Judging Contest
- 2020 Horse Stampede
- Companion Animal Challenge
- Opportunities in Stampede and Companion Animal Challenge
- Ag Innovators Experience
- Jarvis Scholarship
- Animal Clinics, Progress Shows, & Events
Special Garden Project 2020
Youth should enroll for the Special Garden Project through 4-H Online. By enrolling through 4-H Online, youth will have access to the box folder with the educational materials including the growing newsletter & evaluation.
ORDER SEEDS BY FEBRUARY 1
To order:
1) RSVP for seeds on google form https://forms.gle/9Nw5XL4BuLso3VvP8
OR
2) email mkonecky2@unl.edu
Saunders County Shooting Sports
Open practice for all shooters will begin March 2.
Friends of Saunders County 4-H & Extension Foundation seeking ideas
the Friends of Saunders County 4-H and Extension Foundation would like to ask the clubs of Saunders County to help find a theme for this year’s auction. Please go to our Facebook page to put your suggestion into our poll. Last year’s theme was “Keep Saunders County Rolling”. With the use of items like tires and wheelbarrows, clubs made items for the auction in the past. Please submit suggestions to https://www.facebook.com/4hextensionfoundationofsaunderscounty/
4H Shotgun Shooting Sports
Are you interested in learning and competing in the sport of Trapshooting?
Female and male youth, grades 6 – 12, interested in participating in club trapshooting are encouraged to contact Ashland Gun Club 4H.
Fall practice is beginning. Season runs January to May. No experience necessary. Hunter Safety Education Required.
Visit www.ashland4htrap.com. Contact us at: ashlandtrap@yahoo.com
Volunteer Screening Changes
Volunteers are screened in order to ensure a safe, positive and nurturing environment for all youth involved with Nebraska 4-H programs and provide protection for the child, volunteer, educator, 4-H Council, Extension Board, and Nebraska Extension.
In order to complete the volunteer screening, please click or copy and paste the following link and follow all instructions: https://ecmp.nebraska.gov/DHHS-CR/CheckRequest/BeginOrgCheck/81102416. Please note that only applications started through this link will be verified as part of Nebraska 4-H.
You will be asked to create a PIN number before beginning the application. This PIN is used to access the application if you need to re-enter the site at any point during the application process. All minors (under the age of 19 in Nebraska) will need to have a notarized ID form that will need to be submitted.
After the screening is complete, you will receive an email from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with the results of your screening. Please keep this file for your records. (You do NOT need to send this document to Nebraska 4-H.)
If you have any questions about the volunteer screening process, or encounter problems accessing the screening, please contact your local county office.
OXBOW Vet Camps
For more information, please visit: https://www.oxbowanimalhealth.com/the-oxbow-way/education/summer-veterinarian-camps
4-H Cat Club - REVAMPED
Do you like cats? What about learning how to care for or show them? Maybe you have heard about the 4-H Cat Club in the past and wanted to join, but couldn't make the monthly meetings.
Do we have good news for you, or what? We are pleased to introduce this year's self-paced Cat Club! No more being bummed that you missed the hour long meeting every second Thursday. You will now have access to monthly lessons and activities that you can complete on your own time.
Check out more information here: http://4h.unl.edu/companion-animal/cat-club
If you are interested, please stay tuned and register today!
NCC Judging Contes
2020 Online Horticulture Judging Contest
Horticulture judging contest consists of three parts. The first is identification of plant material. Participants identify the plants by common name from a plant list. Specimens may be alive or preserved plant parts like stems, twigs, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, roots, bulbs, tubers, or plant products.
The second is a knowledge portion, usually in the form of a true/false or multiple choice quiz. Questions will test the contestant's knowledge of cultural practices for horticultural crops, plant science, pesticides, horticultural careers and other topics related to the production, processing and consumption of horticultural crops.
The last portion is judging or placings. This is where four different plants, plates of vegetables, or containers flowers are ranked from best to worst based on a set of criteria. Classes are judged on the basis of condition, quality, uniformity, true-to-type, and size.
More information about the Nebraska State contest along with a list of study materials can be found in the Fairbook http://4h.unl.edu/fairbook/plant-science/horticulture-id. Here you can find the written study materials for the knowledge portion, follow links to plant pictures for help with identification, and read how judging of plant material is done.
More details at: https://4h.unl.edu/online-horticulture-judging-contest
Ag Innovators Experience
This year the topic is water! The “Valuable Water Challenge,” is an educational activity focusing on the importance of ecosystem services and how they produce many life-sustaining benefits. These services are
important to environmental and human health and well-being, yet they are limited and often taken for granted. The 2020 AIE challenge will specifically focus on the ecosystem services as related to clean water and its role
in securing a sustainable food supply. Youth will be challenged to better understand and contribute toward conservation practices to improve water quality.
Teens will be expected to attend training on Saturday, March 21st in Columbus .
The deadline for to participate is February 14th. More information on training will be sent once I have all the names.
For more information: https://4-h.org/ways-to-give/corporate-foundation-support/bayer-ag-innovators/
Midwest Messenger, 4-H Club or FFA Chapter of the Week
The nomination form can be found on our website at https://www.agupdate.com/midwestmessenger/forms/f4h_club_ffa_chapter_of_the_week/.
For any questions about this program or submitting a nomination, please contact Katy Moore at (402) 374-2225 ext. 122, katy.moore@lee.net.
Saunders County Extension
Extension is a Division of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln cooperating with the Counties and the United States Department of Agriculture.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension educational programs abide with the nondiscrimination policies of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Email: Saunders-county@unl.edu
Website: http://extension.unl.edu/statewide/saunders/4h/
Location: 1071 County Road G, Ithaca, NE, United States
Phone: (402) 624-8030
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/272483941458/