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4-H weekly updates for May 14th-20th, 2017
Sign up for Summer Programming!
Fair Projects and final enrollment is DUE NO LATER THAN JUNE 15th! You will not be able to compete at the State Fair if you are not enrolled by then :)
Beginning Weaving
Ages 8 and up.
May 22-26th from 9 am- 11:30 am
June 5th-9th from 9 am-11:30 am
It's FREE!
Call the office, or click HERE to sign up!
*Registration and payment for all workshops are due 5 days before start of classes.
OH! NO! STAINS!
Located in the 4-H Building from 9 am- noon.
Cost: $5 for 4-H youth and $10 for non 4-H youth
*Registration and payment for all workshops are due 5 days before the start of class.
Call the office or click here to register!
CAN CARE-A-VAN
WHEN: June 6, 2017 from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.
*If you or your club is interested in helping, please contact Judy Werth @ 402-725-3528 or Kathy Ramsour at 402-694-2325.
Attention Sheep Project 4-H Youth!
Asking $100.
If you are interested, Please contact Alan Tompkins at (402)694-5528 (HOME) or (402)694-9612 (CELL). Thanks!
Hamilton County 4-H Shooting Sports Opportunities
There is the Shooting Sports 4-H Club, which specializes in archery and BB; Prairie Fire Shooting Sports 4-H Club, which specializes in archery, pistol, and hunting skills; and the Hamilton County Sharp Shooters 4-H Club, which specializes in pistol and rifle.
There are different practice sessions for each club. If you are interested in learning more about one of these clubs, please contact the club leaders listed below.
Shooting Sports 4-H Club- Angie Stump-(402) 631-7811
Prairie Fire Shooting Sports 4-H Club-Renee' Ekhoff (402) 631-9466
*or check out their Facebook page Prairie Fire Shooting Sports
Hamilton County Sharp Shooters 4-H Club- Darren Graves (402) 694-9313
You can also contact our office with any questions! 402-694-6174.
Nebraska Youth Crop Scouting Competition-Connecting Youth with Crops
Want to learn more!? Call the office and we can set up a time with a local agronomist to learn more about crop production.
This contest will be held at the ARDC near Mead, NE on August 1, 2017. The event will include both indoor and outdoor events. Teams of junir high and high school students (7th-12th grade) are invited to participate.
Please call the office and talk to Deb if you have any additional questions! 402-694-6174
13th Annual Lively Livestock Jackpot Show
*Goat Weigh In-9-10 AM (Goat show starts at 10AM)
*Sheep Weigh In Noon-1PM (Sheep Show will follow the goat show)
Show Order:
Goat Showmanship, Breeding Goat, Market Goat, Sheep Showmanship, Breeding Sheep, Market Sheep
SWINE JACKPOT (Swine Check-In 4PM-5PM)
Swine Show Starts at 5PM (or after Geneva's Jackpot
Show Order:
Showmanship, Breeding Gilts, Prospect Market Swine.
For More information Please contact 402-710-2661 OR stop in our Office for a flyer!
Saturday, Jun 3, 2017, 09:00 PM
York County Fair, North Nebraska Avenue, York, NE, United States
2017 Lincoln Creek Llamas 4-H Club 3rd Annual Camelid Retreat
Where: The Leadership Center, Aurora
Cost: $100 includes overnight stay, meals, professional instruction, crafts, and so much more! (day rates available too!)
*You can bring your own camelid or use one of the clubs
*Registration is due May 31, 2017
For more information contact: Holly Jensen, 402-631-9812; lincolncreekllamas@gmail.com
NATIONAL 4-H DAIRY CONFERENCE
Nebraska Application
ABOUT THE NATIONAL 4-H DAIRY CONFERENCE:
The National 4-H Dairy Conference gives one Nebraska 4-H youth the special opportunity to go to Madison, Wisconsin October 2-October 5, 2017. The primary focus of the dairy conference is for 4-H members to learn more about the dairy industry and careers in the dairy industry, while having fun and making new friends from around the United States and Canada.
CONFERENCE REQUIREMENTS:
Ø Must be currently enrolled in the 4-H Dairy or Dairy Goat project
Ø Must have been in the 4-H Dairy or Dairy Goat project for at least 3 years
Ø Must be at least 15, but not more than 18 years of age before January 1 of the year attending the conference.
Ø Must complete the “NATIONAL DAIRY CONFERENCE -Nebraska Application”
Ø Cannot be participating in the National 4-H Dairy Judging contest the same year.
Ø Must provide a minimum amount of expenses. NOTE: Donor money from numerous Nebraska dairy interests help support the program, making the trip affordable. Approximate out-of-pocket cost is $300 for travel and lodging, plus some spending money.
Benefits from attending:
Ø Networking with new friends
Ø Learn more about the dairy industry and careers in the dairy industry
QUALITY ASSURANCE CLASSES
Quality Assurance is for all youth ages 8-18, who are interested in showing livestock – Beef, Dairy, Swine, Sheep, Goats, Rabbits and Poultry MUST pass QA (either face to face or online) every year unless they have tested out in our office.
Hamilton County Face to Face Classes will be at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds 4-H Building
May 20th at 2pm
June 10th at 2pm
Class will be 60-90 minutes
All Juniors ages 8-10 MUST be accompanied by an adult!
Please call the office to register as we need to know how many will be at each class!
SOUTHERN PLAINS POULTRY JUDGING CLINIC AND CONTEST
For more information, please contact crystal.fangmeier@unl.edu or 402-769-7212
Tuesday, Jun 6, 2017, 01:00 PM
Thayer Co Fair Grounds, 4th Street, Deshler, NE, United States
Club Volunteer Opportunity
4-H HORSE INFORMATION
Riding practice (bring horses) start at 6:30pm: May 11, 18, 25; June 8, 22, 29; July 6, 13, 19
County 4-H Horse show time TBD: July 21
Timberlake Open Shows: June 3, August 19
If you have any questions, please contact Hillary at hillary.fuhrman@unl.edu or Amanda at amanda@timberlake.org
YQCA IS NOW ACTIVE!!
We are excited to announce that the new QA Curriculum called Youth for the Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) is now active. Anyone who has not registered for the LQA online course for 2017 should now navigate to the NEW online YQCA course at yqca.learngrow.io. You will use your FAMILY 4HOnline login and password information to access the courses for the ACTIVE youth in your family. Only ACTIVE members will show in the drop down menu for access to the course. All registration questions with YQCA should be directed to help@yqca.org. There will not be local support for the YQCA program. All 4-Hers need to use the 4-H tab and not the FFA tab even if they are members of both organizations. There is a button for families that have forgotten their password. 4-Hers that have started their QA training in the LQA site will be able to complete their modules and print off their certificate of completion and take it to their Extension Office. The YQCA site is user friendly and should make it easy for 4-H families to complete their QA training for this year.
If you have ANY questions, call Hillary at the Extension Office. 402-694-6174
2017 Special Garden Project-SUNBURST SUMMER SQUASH (PACKETS ARE IN!) COME PICK THEM UP IF YOU STILL ARE INTERESTED! WE HAVE EXTRA PACKETS!
Youth participating in this project will receive squash seeds, a newsletter and evaluation about planting and growing squash, squash problems, and insects, harvesting and using squash and how to exhibit squash. They will be able to enter their vegetable at County and State Fair. NEW THIS YEAR: Youth will enroll for this project on 4honline.com. Once enrolled, they will need to call our office to reserve the seeds. We have only 30 packets to distribute! Please call to reserve yours today. They will be ready to pick up in March!
Sunburst squash, also called Pattypan, has yellow, scalloped shaped fruits with bright green blossom ends. The plants are very productive and are an All-America Selection winner for its early fruit production and for producing a large number of fruits per plant. It takes about 52 days from seeding until squash is ready to harvest.
2017 4-H Clover Chase
An original event created just for those engaged in 4-H and the Nebraska 150 Celebration! Specific challenges will be made for each county and listed on the 4-H website and app click here!. Participants can submit scavenger hunt findings for display in the 4-H building at the Nebraska State Fair, photos on social media using #NE4HChase (all photos entered will be put into a Storify story) and more! Contestants have 150 days to complete the “chase.” which means that they must finish as many challenges as possible! The county with the most complete challenge wins a Nation Youth Science Day KIT! (LOOK BELOW)
This event will be run from March 1, 2017 until August 1, 2017.
National Youth Science Day Announced for 2017
RAISE YOUR HAND!
National 4-H “Raise Your Hand” Promotion focuses more upon attracting 4-H alumni back to the program as parents, volunteers, and donors. During this promotion, alumni are being asked to complete the following steps:
1) Raise Your Hand – Complete the form at http://4-h.org/raise-your-hand to show your pride as a 4‑H alum.
2) Compete for your state – Raising your hand is a vote towards a $20,000, $10,000 or $5,000 award for the states with the most alumni hands raised.
3) Pay it Forward – Tweet, post and share your #4HGrown experience or support and tag fellow alumni asking them to raise their hands for their state at http://4‑H.org/RaiseYourHand.
Club opportunity to raise money!
UNL TRACTOR SAFETY
Nebraska Extension Tractor Safety & Hazardous Occupations Courses will take place at nine Nebraska locations this year. Teens 14 or 15 years of age who will work on a farm should plan to attend.
Federal law prohibits youth under 16 years of age from working on a farm for anyone other than parents or legal guardians. Certification received through this course grants an exemption to the law allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to drive a tractor and to do field work with specific mechanized equipment.
The most common cause of agricultural-related death in Nebraska is overturned tractors and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Extensive training on Tractor and ATV safety occurs during in-class lessons with hands-on activities. Instilling an attitude of ‘safety first’ and respect for agricultural equipment are primary goals of the course.
The course consists of two days of instruction plus homework assignments. The first day of classroom instruction includes hands-on demonstrations, concluding with a written test. Students are required to pass the test before taking the driving test on day two. Classroom instruction will cover the required elements of the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program. Students will complete homework assignments that will be due on day two. The second day will include a driving test, equipment operation, and ATV safety lessons. To receive certification, students must demonstrate competence in hitching and unhitching equipment and driving a tractor and trailer through a standardized course.
Two locations, Gordon and McCook, will offer online course instruction to replace the first day of the two-day course. Students complete this at their convenience before attending the driving component of the course on-site.
All on-site classes begin at 8:00 A.M. and end times will vary, depending on the number of participants. Dates, locations, and Site Coordinator phone numbers are as follows: May 30 & 31 - Kearney Fairgrounds (308) 236-1235; June 1 & 2 – Auburn Fairgrounds (402) 245-4324; June 6 & 7 – Valentine Fairgrounds (402) 376-1850; June 13 & 14 – North Platte West Central Research and Extension Center (308) 532-2683; June 15 & 16 – Gering Legacy Museum (308) 632-1480; June 19 & 20 – Wayne Fairgrounds (402) 584-2234; June 22 – Gordon Fairgrounds (308) 327-2312; June 23 – McCook Fairgrounds (308) 345-3390; July 10 & 11 – Grand Island College Park (308) 385-5088.
Participants must submit registration forms to the location they will attend at least one week before the course. The registration form is available online: kearney.unl.edu. Cost of the course is $60, which includes educational materials, instruction, supplies, and lunches. For more information, contact the Extension Office of the location where student will attend.
Extension is a division of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln cooperating with Counties and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Select 2017 4-H Projects by Using the Online Search Feature!
All across Nebraska 4-H youth are beginning to select their 4-H projects for 2017! Let the Nebraska 4-H Pick Your Project help connect you with projects that fit your interests and skill levels!
The NEW interactive, web-based Nebraska 4-H Pick Your Project can be found online at http://nebraska4hprojects.com. This project selection guide is accessible trough the Nebraska 4-H website on the club, volunteer, and parents/youth resource pages. Using the Pick Your Project, youth, volunteers, and parents will be able to search for projects by keywords, project areas, curriculum areas, experience levels, and projects that contain State Fair and/or County Fair eligible entries.
As an added feature, the web-based Pick Your Project contains the same project codes that are shown in the 4HOnline Enrollment system, making it easier to match the exciting 4-H projects you are learning about in the Pick Your Project with the projects you are enrolling in through 4HOnline.
Explore over 150 Nebraska 4-H projects through the Nebraska 4-H Pick Your Project app and find the 4-H projects that will help you grow throughout 2017.
STATE CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!
Once again this year the Nebraska 4-H Foundation has graciously donated funds to allow us to provide camperships to individuals that would not be able to afford camp otherwise. Camperships are available in the amount of $100 and must be requested prior to registering for camp. Below is the information that I will need in order to award a campership to an individual.
To apply for a campership, please submit the following information to Lindsay Shearer by email or mail. Allow 7-10 business days for response to campership request. Please note that single day camp sessions are not eligible for Camperships. *Campership requests must be received and approved prior to registration for a camp session.
1. A request for campership support from the parent/guardian. Please be sure to include the name, age, and gender for each camper and the session each camper would like to attend.
2. A brief statement from the parent or from the camper expressing why they would like to attend camp this summer.
Once a request for a campership has been approved you will receive notification from Lindsay and receive an authorization code for registration that can be entered online or documented on a mail-in registration form. Following any campership support, we do ask that the camper send a thank-you note to donors sharing a highlight from their summer camp experience. Thank you notes can also be sent to Lindsay Shearer either by mail or email.
Request can be sent to:
Lindsay Shearer
State 4-H Office
114 Agricultural Hall
Lincoln, NE 68583
Or via email to:
lshearer2@unl.edu
Nebraska 4-H Foundation Club of the Month
ATTENTION: YOUTH LIVESTOCK PROJECTS
Nebraska Extension in Hamilton County
Email: hamilton-county@unl.edu
Website: www.hamilton.unl.edu
Location: 1111 13th Street Ste. 6 Aurora, NE 68818
Phone: 402-694-6174
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hamilton.unl/
Twitter: @HamiltonExten4H