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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 06 - Issue 36 IN THIS ISSUE 4-H Essential Elements Online Assessment Tool UPCOMING EVENTS
September 8-17
September 8-17
September 16
September 22-October 1
September 23
September 29-30
October 1-7
October 5-8
October 14
October 21
October 22-26
November 6
November 11
November 24-28
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 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS ONLINE ASSESSMENT TOOL An online system is being developed to assess a 4-H program’s ability to address each of the four essential elements of 4-H youth development (Belonging, Mastery, Independence and Generosity). They need the help of all 4-H professionals and volunteers in piloting this 4-H youth development program assessment tool and the accompanying resource pages! To begin go to 4htools.cals.arizona.edu/consent_form.cfm.
To begin participation go to 4htools.cals.arizona.edu/consent_form.cfm. Upon completion of the tool, please complete the questionnaire regarding your impressions of it by going to 4htools.cals.arizona.edu/cssSite/assessmentQuestions.cfm. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact Karen Hoffman Tepper at karenht@ag.arizona.edu or 520-991-5530. Steve Sutton ENTRIES DUE FOR STATE FALL JUDGING EVENTS State Fall Judging Day will be Saturday, October 14 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Registration will be at 1:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Hollingsworth (Plant Science) Auditorium with the competition starting at 2:00 p.m. An awards banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. Competition will be for senior teams in consumer decision-making, dairy products judging, forestry judging, outdoor meat cookery, plant and seed identification and poultry judging. Junior high competition will not be offered on the state level. The dairy products, plant and seed identification and poultry judging contests are non-qualifying events. Team members should be in the 9th-12th grades on January 1, 2006 in order to be eligible. There is no limit as to the number of teams that may participate from a county. Participants in the consumer decision-making, forestry judging and outdoor meat cookery contests will be determined by regional events. The top four (4) forestry teams per region, the top four (4) consumer decision-making teams and the top three (3) outdoor meat cookery teams (plus any of the four specie winners if they were not a member of a regional-qualifying team) will advance to state competition. In order to prepare for the judging day, we need to know how many are coming. There is a preregistration requirement for dairy products, plant and seed identification and poultry judging teams. We must receive a COMPLETED Entry and Score Form (F615) for each team and/or individual participating. Please send this information to Steve Sutton, State 4-H Office, 2621 Morgan Circle, Room 205, Knoxville, TN 37996-4510 by October 2. Consumer decision-making, forestry and outdoor meat cookery teams will NOT have to preregister. Your regional office will submit the entry information to the state 4-H office. There is no need for regional-qualifying teams to complete an entry and score form. Those will be completed for you and given to the specialists prior to the event. Your completed forms will be your reservation for the awards banquet on October 14. Cost for the meal is $8.00 per person. This includes contestants, coaches, parents and other guests. You may pay at the registration table as you arrive. Counties will need to be responsible for any meals not cancelled by October 6. Guest reservations should come in with your team’s entry form. Extension staff meals will be taken care of internally. Steve Sutton FINALISTS NAMED FOR MID-SOUTH FAIR ACTIVITIES Finalists have been named from among the entries submitted for the 4-H Career Pursuit event and Agribusiness/4-H Public Speaking Contest at 4-H Day at the Mid-South Fair. Our number of finalists increased this year since we were allowed to fill positions not used by other states. Tennessee’s finalists include:
Congratulations to 4-H agents who made this opportunity available and encouraged Stephen Sutton PRUDENTIAL SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY AWARDS APPLICATIONS The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program, sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the Association of Secondary School Principals, recognizes individuals in grades 5-12 solely on the basis of their volunteer activities. Young volunteers can apply through middle and high schools, county 4-H programs and other officially designated local organizations. This year’s application period runs through October, so please don’t delay! Make your 4-H members aware of this opportunity today, and encourage those who qualify to complete an application by October 31, 2006. Your county 4-H program can select one middle level local honoree for every 1000 members (or portion thereof) in grades 5-8 and one high school local honoree for every 1,000 members in grades 9-12. Once you have selected your local honorees, you must submit their applications by November 7, 2006, to a state-level judging committee, which will pick the top youth volunteers in each state and the District of Columbia. All of these state-level judging committee, which will pick the top youth volunteer in each state receive silver medallions, $1000 awards and a fabulous trip to the nation’s capital for several days of national events. In Washington, a national selection committee will name America’s top 10 youth volunteers for 2007. Each will win an additional $5,000, a medallion, crystal trophy and a $5,000 grant from the Prudential Foundation for a charitable non-profit organization of his or her choice. More information and applications can be found at www.prudential.com/spirit. Amy Gallimore THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
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