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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 06 - Issue 34 IN THIS ISSUE 2007 4-H Beekeeping Essay Contest Announcement And Rules UPCOMING EVENTS
September 8-17
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September 22-October 1
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October 22-26
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 2007 4-H BEEKEEPING ESSAY CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT AND RULES The Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees, Inc. is again sponsoring its annual 4-H beekeeping essay contest. The contest is open to all active 4-H members. The contest announcement and rules may be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas06/links/beerules.htm and downloaded in a print friendly format at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas06/attach/beerules.pdf. Essays must be received in the state 4-H office no later than February 1, 2007. Please encourage your 4-H members to participate. Our Tennessee 4-H’ers have been finalists in years past and received cash awards. Steve Sutton The Insect Institute has created an educational "eyes-on" program to be presented at the Tennessee State Fair and the Mid-South Fair. The program will be under the guidelines of a professional staff in a beautiful laboratory setting with over 15 species on exhibit along with documented DVD footage giving detailed information on the Africanized bees. The program is designed to help parents and children enhance their knowledge and cautions on the dangers of stinging, biting, flying and crawling insects than can be physically harmful or even cause death and is presented and projected in a fun and challenging environment. Also available, to communities and farmers is information about migrating insects that have not entered the U.S. Please take time to visit and encourage 4-H’ers to visit this one of a kind exhibit at the Tennessee State Fair and the Mid-South Fair. Alice Ann Moore The following chart shows all project activity sheets available for this school year. All activity sheets are available for download from the project activity sheet Web page at 4h.tennessee.edu/projects/actsheets.htm. More sheets are coming soon! Next up are consumer education/economics (intermediate and advanced) and line and design (intermediate).
Amy Willis SOUTHERN REGION LEADER FORUM REGISTRATION UPDATE The 2006 Southern Region Leader Forum for 4-H volunteer leaders and Extension staff will be held October 5 - 8, 2006, at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in Eatonton, Georgia. Tennessee has a great group of volunteers and agents diligently working at different events for the forum. I greatly appreciate their enthusiasm and all their efforts! Congratulations are in order to Robertson County who has a wonderful delegation of 17 and to Knox County with 13 delegates. Our state currently has a registration of over 105 participants. Registration is still open until September 1, 2006, at a cost of $215.00 per delegate. Please visit the Tennessee 4-H Volunteer Web site at 4h.tennessee.edu/volunteers/rockeagle/ for more information about the event and to download the registration form. Registration cancelled after September 1 will not be refunded except in extreme circumstances. A bus will be available again this year. Alice Ann Moore is working on the schedule to be sent at a later date. In addition to the state T-shirts registered delegates receive, a white polo shirt is available for the price of $12.00. The shirt will have the forum logo 4-H Sounds Good to Me printed on the left hand side over the heart area. Please send me an email (cburgos@utk.edu) or call the office 865-974-2128 to place your order. We will only print according to the number ordered. Thank you for all the efforts made to spread the word about the forum! Carmen Burgos STATE FALL JUDGING DAY IS OCTOBER 14 Fall judging day is scheduled for Saturday, October 14, on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus. Registration will be at 1:00 p.m. with competition at beginning at 2:00 p.m. The event will climax with an awards banquet at 5:30 p.m. in the Hollingsworth Plant Science Auditorium. Competition will be for senior judging teams only (9th-12 grade as of January 1, 2006) in the following areas:
Details concerning registration for the event will be available at a later date. Contact your regional office for the dates of your consumer decision-making judging, forestry judging and outdoor meat cookery events. Steve Sutton VOL NETWORK: INCREASING TENNESSEE 4-H VISIBILITY Thanks to the Tennessee 4-H Foundation, Inc., Tennessee 4-H and the Foundation have entered into a partnership with Host Communications - the Vol Network to increase visibility for the Tennessee 4-H youth development program. Beginning last Monday, August 21, 15 radio air 30-second radio spots will be featured on “Vol Call.” Football schedule cards featuring the name and emblem and Web site address have been distributed mainly in the urban areas - at banks, doctors’ offices and locations not typically catering to a 4-H audience. There will be a half-page ad in both UT football and basketball programs this fall and winter. In addition, Tennessee 4-H will receive a permanent ad button on utsports.com. By clicking on the permanent ad button, sports fans will be directed to the Tennessee 4-H Web site. The site receives more than 3.5 million visitors each year. The partnership is seen by the Foundation as a great way to give Tennessee 4-H and the Tennessee 4-H Foundation, Inc. more visibility and to increase opportunities for youth and adults participate in 4-H. Alice Ann Moore THE WHITE HOUSE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM The White House Internship Program offers an excellent opportunity to serve our President and explore public service. They are seeking exceptional candidates to apply for this highly competitive program. In addition to typical office duties, interns attend weekly lectures, tours, and complete an intern service project. Interns may serve a term in the Fall, Spring or Summer. Every candidate must be a United States citizen, enrolled in a college or university, and at least 18 years of age. An application and additional information about the program can be found at www.whitehouse.gov/government/wh-intern.html. Strong applications exhibit:
Applications should be submitted to Karen Race, Deputy Director and Intern Coordinator, White House Personnel, at intern_application@whitehouse.gov on or before the following deadlines:
If you have questions you may contact Karen Race at 202- 456-5979 or intern_application@whitehouse.gov. Alice Ann Moore THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.
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