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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 06 - Issue 27 IN THIS ISSUE National 4-H Week Marketing And Media Resources Kit Available UPCOMING EVENTS July 10-13
July 17-21
July 21-22
July 24-28
July 25-30
August 10
August 15
August 15
August 15
August 21-26
September 8-17
September 8-17
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September 22-October 1
September 23
September 29-30
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 NATIONAL 4-H WEEK MARKETING AND MEDIA RESOURCES KIT AVAILABLE Join the 4-H community to celebrate 4-H during National 4-H Week, October 1-7, 2006! The National 4-H Week kit is now available and contains a wide of marketing and media relations materials to help you successfully promote National 4-H Week events and activities in your community. Visit 4HMediaResources.org to view the kit. The kit contains logos, print materials, ads, media relations materials, tip sheets, activity ideas and more. New this year are a variety of Web banners, the 4-H Helps activity planning guide, and materials to promote National 4-H Week to donors and leaders throughout your community. Be sure to check back often as more items will be added regularly. Many of the materials are available in a version that you can easily save and open in Microsoft Word, customize with your community and contact information and print on color printers. All files are in .jpeg (graphics), Adobe .PDF and Microsoft Word. There is a link on the site to help you download the Adobe Reader software. We hope you find these materials helpful and look forward to promoting National 4-H Week across the 4-H community. Once you have used the site, please take a moment to fill out our survey so we can make National 4-H Week 2007 even better! If you have any questions, please contact Allyson McMahan at amcmahan@fourhcouncil.edu or 301-961-2915. Steve Sutton RESEARCH-BASED ALCOHOL PREVENTION WEB SITE AVAILABLE Are you looking for a new, engaging way to cover lessons on peer pressure and resistance skills? Check out a new, research-based alcohol prevention Web site for youth aged 11–13, the Cool Spot, at www.thecoolspot.gov/. The site was created by The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). For educators and other staff, the site has an interactive quiz that assesses whether youth have learned some of the chief objectives. In addition, the site will soon feature a guided reading activity and two dynamic role-playing lessons plans covering peer pressure and resistance skills Steve Sutton STATE 4-H PHOTO SEARCH WINNERS ANNOUNCED Thanks to all those who encouraged their 4-H members to submit photos for the Photo Search Contest. The judging has been completed and the state winners selected. The following members have state-winning entries.
These 10 winning photographs will be on exhibit during State 4-H Roundup at the University of Tennessee at Martin, July 17-21. Following Roundup, they will be on display in the state 4-H office. They may also be viewed on the Tennessee 4-H Web site at 4h.tennessee.edu/phtosrch/2006.htm. Steve Sutton THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
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