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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 06 - Issue 19 IN THIS ISSUE 4-H Electric Camp Assistants Selected UPCOMING EVENTS May 19-21
May 23
May 23
May 25
May 25
May 30-31
June 1
June 1
June 5-9
June 6
June 10-17
June 13-16
June 14-17
June 15
June 15
June 20
June 20-24
June 27-30
July 5-8
July 5-8
July 10-13
July 17-21
July 21-22
July 24-28
July 25-30
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas06 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas06/06-index.htm 4-H ELECTRIC CAMP ASSISTANTS SELECTED Twelve senior 4-H members have been chosen to serve in a leadership role during 4-H Electric Camp, June 27-30, 2006. These 4-H’ers were selected on the basis of their leadership experience, involvement in the electric project and recommendation of their 4-H agent and regional program leader.
Steve Sutton DID YOU GET YOUR ACADEMIC CONFERENCE BUS SCHEDULE? The 4-H Academic Conference bus schedules were emailed on May 11 to those counties having delegates. If you have delegates attending this event and failed to receive a schedule, please let us know. Steve Sutton HENDERSON COUNTY BOASTS LARGEST ACADEMIC CONFERENCE DELEGATION Registration is in for Junior High 4-H Academic Conference, and Henderson County’s 11 delegates make it the largest group attending. The event will be held on the campus of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, June 13-16, 2006. The top five counties for Academic Conference are as follows:
Congratulations to these counties for their success in promoting this event and to all agents who made this educational opportunity available to their 4-H members. If you would like to verify your county delegation, go to https://ext1.ag.utk.edu/4H/acdmRegist.nsf. You should be able to view the information, but will not be able to make changes. Please let me know if you see anything that needs to be corrected. Steve Sutton Junior Market Goat Field Day was held on Saturday May 6, 2006, at the Ag Center in Shelbyville. Over 60 4-H members, parents and leaders from ten counties attended this year’s field day. The highlight of this year’s activity was a judging contest. There were four divisions in the contest with the high individual of the three youth divisions getting to pick a goat for a project animal as their prize. These animals were donated by former Bedford County Extension Leader David Gordon. Attendees were given the new showmanship guidelines for showing market goats as well as fitting guidelines. Several agents and leaders shared information on selection, fitting and other guidelines with the program participants. Participants also dined on delicious goat barbecue for lunch. Ricky Skillington MADISON COUNTY HAS MOST PORTFOLIOS Congratulations to all 4-H agents who encouraged members to submit their project achievement portfolios for state competition. Madison County was the top county in the state this year as far as number of records submitted. The top five counties this year include:
The Central Region led with 104 portfolios submitted; the Eastern and Western regions each had 65. Congratulations to the Western Region on a 22% increase in participation! 4-H agents, volunteer leaders and specialists will complete the judging of the records on June 1. We will try to announce the names of the finalists to the regions by June 9. Steve Sutton The 10th annual National Cornbread Festival was held in South Pittsburg April 29 and 30. The 4-H Cornbread Cook-Off was held on Saturday, April 29. The finalists in the youth competition prepared their Martha White cornmeal dishes in a Lodge skillet on a Brown Stove surrounded by on-lookers in the middle of the festival grounds. The winners were Emily Gill - Gurley, Nebraska (1st place), Shania Davis - Whitwell Tennessee (2nd place and Rusty Richardson - Heiskell, Tennessee (3rd place). You may go to the following links for photos.
Vicki Lofty is instrumental in assisting with the youth competition. Both Vicki and John Wilson are active in assisting in the planning and organizing of this national event in their community. Alice Ann Moore NRA TO SPONSOR 19TH YOUTH WILDLIFE ART CONTEST The NRA is now accepting entries for its 2006 Youth Wildlife Art Contest. The contest, the 19th in the annual series, is open to students in grades 1 through 12 (including home-schooled youth). NRA membership is not required. The deadline to enter is October 3, 2006. Winners in each grade category will receive $500. Second-place finishers will receive $250, and the third-place award will be $100. Entries may be submitted in one of four categories, based on school grade. Category I includes grades 1 through 3. Category II is for grades 4 through 6. Category III covers grades 7 through 9, and Category IV includes grades 10 through 12. Entries may portray any North American game bird or animal that may be legally hunted or trapped. Endangered species and non-game animals, such as eagles and snakes, are not eligible subjects. Call (703) 267-1531 if you need to confirm whether a certain animal or bird is eligible. Contestants are limited to one entry each. Entries may be in a medium of the artist’s choice (oil, water color, pastels, pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, etc.). Submissions should be on good quality bond or drawing paper, or illustration board. Preferred sizes for the image are 8-1/2" x 11" or 11" x 14"; matting is optional. Entries need not be framed. Composition must be original. Photographs may be used for reference, but artwork determined to have been traced or copied from an existing photograph or work of art will be disqualified. Entries must arrive at NRA by October 3, 2006, and must be accompanied by a brief statement signed by the student’s parent, guardian or teacher attesting to the originality of the work and verifying the artist’s grade level as of October 3, 2006. In addition, the artist’s name, age, home address, phone number, and grade must be printed on the back of the entry or on a note attached to the back of the entry. Entries will be judged on effort, creativity, anatomical accuracy, and composition. Send entries to: NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA 22030. Entries will be returned only if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. NRA assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged artwork, and reserves all rights to reproduce entries. The immediate families of NRA staff members are not eligible to enter. Questions regarding the contest may be directed to (703) 267-1531. See www.nrahq.org/youth/wildlife.asp for photos of last year’s winning entries. Steve Sutton STATE 4-H DAIRY QUIZ BOWL IS JUNE 1 The State 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl competition is scheduled for Wednesday, June 1 in Nashville. Teams should report to the Central Region office auditorium at the Ellington Agriculture Center by 9:00 a.m. Awards will be presented at the June Dairy Month Kick Off luncheon. Teams registering for the event include:
The winning team will represent Tennessee at the North American Invitational 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl in Louisville, Kentucky this November. State sponsor for the event is Dairy Farmers of America. Steve Sutton STATE 4-H HORSE JUDGING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 20 Twelve regional-winning teams will compete in the State 4-H Horse Judging Contest, Tuesday, June 20, during the 2006 State 4-H Horse Championships in Shelbyville. The event will begin at 12:00 noon and climax with an awards banquet at 6:00 p.m. in the Blue Ribbon Room on the Celebration grounds. Teams participating include:
Steve Sutton TENNESSEE 4-H ROUNDUP WEB SITE UPDATED We now have the Web site updated for the 2006 Tennessee 4-H Roundup. The URL is 4h.tennessee.edu/roundup/. The site is designed to acquaint 4-H members and volunteer leaders with Roundup and those events associated with it. You can also download a promotional brochure from the site. Steve Sutton THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
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