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Roberta Lundeberg on State Committees
A great opportunity for older youth is to serve on one of the many state committees. These include project committees such as horse or dog as well as event committees such as Summer Conference and...
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4-H Recognition Week
It is Thanksgiving week and that means ONE thing for some people in 4-H: National 4-H Congress!!! Our delegation will be leaving on Thursday (yep not turkey at home for them or their chaperones!) and...
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Helen Pease on State 4-H Scholarships
Each March, the State 4-H Recognition Committee selects more than 15 State 4-H scholarship winners, who will be graduating from high school and will attending college later that year. The scholarships...
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Helen Pease on State 4-H Awards
State 4-H awards in Citizenship, Leadership, Communication and Team Community service are offered each year to 4-H members. These awards provide an opportunity to recognize youth who have demonstrated...
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Mary Arnold on Five Sleepless Nights in Atlanta (AKA National 4-H Congress)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! As most of us wake up and eagerly await our Thanksgiving dinners, the Oregon delegation to National 4-H Congress 2013 will be on its way to Atlanta, accompanied by...
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Virginia Bourdeau on Oregon 4-H Science and Technology Week
This week your colleagues and I will be blogging about supporting science inquiry, an exciting new Renewable Energy education program, new fair exhibit requirements to reinforce science processes in...
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Remember how tedious and boring science was as young student? For most of us, it was reading a chapter in a science textbook, answering the questions at the end of the chapter, and memorizing a bunch...
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Virginia Bourdeau on Keeping the 4-H Natural Science Projects Relevant
The Oregon 4-H Natural Science Projects are in the portfolio of projects I support and are a big part of the Oregon 4-H Program’s science curriculum. One of the ways I support these projects is to...
View ArticleHolly Morris on Wasco County 4-H Rov’ology; 4-H Technology In-School and...
The Wasco County 4-H Technology program offers ROV’ology through both afterschool and an in-school class enrichment. The ROV’ology program reaches youth in grades 3rd-12th and focuses on remotely...
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Virginia Bourdeau on The Next Generation Science Standards
On October 24- 26 the National Science Teachers Association’s (NSTA) Western Regional Conference was held in Portland, Oregon. 4-H was well represented by staff attending classes, cruising the...
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Jamie Davis on Just Say YES to Professional Development with OSUEA4-HA
I consider myself very fortunate to have found a career path that values the importance of professional development. Over the last seven years I have had some amazing opportunities, many which have...
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Candi Bothum on Auction Committees
Welcome to 4-H Animal Science Week! This week’s blog is brought to you by Candi Bothum, our interim Animal Science Specialist! What’s Our Role with an Auction Committee? Some would say its Oregon 4-H...
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Candi Bothum on Changing the Culture Part 1
Changing the Culture – Part I Recently, Oregon 4-H embarked on the first statewide Animal Science training(s) in quite some time. While attendance was low in my opinion (about 100), those who attended...
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Candi Bothum on Changing the Culture Part II
Often I stumble across folks in Animal Science and other project areas, who have incredible project based knowledge. They found the 4-H program because they were “sheep” experts and want their children...
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Candi Bothum on Judging Contest
Judging Contests – an Epitome of the 4-H Program First, don’t think of a judging contest as an animal science thing. Judging contests are life skill building, regardless of the topic. What other event...
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Candi Bothum on Taking Animals to State Fair
Taking Animals to State Fair When it comes to convincing youth and their families to exhibit their animal science project at state fair, there can be a variety of obstacles. Reasons for not attending...
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Morning Clover is Taking a Winter Break!
WHEWWWWWWWWWWEEEE!!! Did you like that? The Morning Clover just brought you 13 weeks of daily bits of information each day of fall term! (well we missed a few days because of the unexpected snow storm...
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Mary Arnold on Positive Youth Development
Welcome to the return of the Morning Clover Blog for winter term 2014. We have a great line-up of daily posts this winter, and we hope you will take a minute each morning to “Look over the Morning...
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Mary Arnold on the Basic Components of the Oregon 4-H Program Model
If I asked anyone of you what draws a child or young person to 4-H, I suspect I will get one of two responses: 1) the opportunity for friendship; and 2) the opportunity to engage in learning about...
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