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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS
VOLUME 08 - Issue 01
January 4, 2008
IN THIS ISSUE
2008 Tennessee State Volunteer Leader Forum
Last Call for 4-H Beekeeping Essays
The Leadership Series
Tennessee 4-H Congress Essay Contest
UPCOMING EVENTS
| State Market Hog Show - Murfreesboro |
| 4-H Beekeeping Essays Due - State 4-H Office |
February 1
| Senior Citizenship and Leadership Portfolios Due - State 4-H Office |
February 1-2
| YF&R Young Leaders Conference - Pigeon Forge |
| TN Piggy Bank Pageant County Notification Due - Wilson County Extension Office |
February 8
| State 4-H Volunteer Leader Forum Registration Due - State 4-H Office |
| 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor Training - Columbia |
| State 4-H All Star High Council Meeting - Lebanon |
February 15
State 4-H Horse Public Speaking/Demonstration Contests - Cookeville |
February 16
| State 4-H Horse Bowl/Hippology Contests - Cookeville |
| State LifeSmarts Contest - Lebanon |
February 25
| 4-H Alumni Recognition Nominations Forms Due - Regional Offices |
| State 4-H Volunteer Leader Forum - Crossville |
| State 4-H Council Meeting - Crossville |
| G.L. Herrington Scholarship Applications Due - State 4-H Office |
| UTK Block and Bridle Roundup - Knoxville |
March 8-9
| Performing Arts Troupe Congress Rehearsal - Hendersonville |
March 29
| State Finalist/Regional Winners Report to Congress - Nashville |
| Performing Arts Troupe Live Auditions - Nashville |
March 29-April 3
| National 4-H Conference - Chevy Chase, MD |
| Tennessee 4-H Congress - Nashville |
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu
Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08
Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08/08-index.htm
2008 TENNESSEE STATE VOLUNTEER LEADER FORUM
The 2008 Tennessee State Volunteer Leader Forum is just around the corner! Make sure your new calendars have February 29 and March 1, 2008 reserved to attend. For a brochure and detailed information visit the Tennessee 4-H Website, select “Volunteers” and then select “State Leader Forum” or click on the following link... 4h.tennessee.edu/volunteers/stateleaderforum/index.htm.
Following is a tentative list of educational sessions that will be offered. A complete list of all the sessions will be sent at the end of January.
Session Title: "Gearing Up…for a New 4-H Club"
Teaching Team: Lynne Middleton and Matt McCuiston
Session Description: Have you started a new 4-H Community Club? Thinking about starting one next year? Then this session is for you! Participants will learn how to organize a 4-H club in their community and will receive lesson plans to get the meetings going!
Session Title: "Learning Life Skills Through Creative Activities"
Teaching Team: Lynne Middleton
Session Description: Are you bored listening to someone talk about life skills? Want to participate in a hands-on training where you learn about life skills while doing creative activities? Then come to this workshop and learn in a fun-filled environment.
Session Title: "4-H Network News: Creating a Digital Media Club"
Teaching Team: Michael A Shirley
Session Description: Want to make a movie? Would interviewing the Governor interest you? Do you love to take pictures? Are you interested in sharing the 4-H purpose with the world? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you belong in 4-H Network News. This exciting group uses digital media to take the 4-H message to the world through internet, television, and radio productions. Learn the basics to starting an affiliate club in your county.
Session Title: "Water, Water Everywhere and not a Drop to Drink!"
Teaching Team: Sarah Vaden and Kathy Johnson
Session Description: You will leave this class with the information to hold your own Water Fair. The students will learn 1) importance of conserving water, 2) how water effects your health, 3) how an aquifer works, 4) how the water cycle works, and 5) many other water facts. The class will be filled with games and hands-on experiments. The fair is designed to be used with 3rd-5th graders. There are six 20-minute sessions to be taught at the fair. This can be done in cooperation with TVA, your local utility board, Farm Bureau and many other local agencies.
Session Title: "Finding Your Way in 4-H"
Teaching Team: Martin Koon
Session Description: Learn some basics of the GPS in this hands-on workshop. Activities will include games and a brainstorming session on how you can utilize GPS in your county.
Session Title: "4-H Project Groups that work!"
Teaching Team: Glenda Booker, Justin Crowe and Sally Smith
Session Description: Interested in starting a 4-H project group? Don't know where to begin? Not sure of what resources are out there? This hands-on session will highlight three successful 4-H project groups (sewing, consumer education and nutrition, health and fitness).
Session Title: "Making an Impact with Civic Engagement"
Teaching Team: Taunee Whittenbarger and Robbie Casteel
Session Description: Want to learn how to wire a local civic engagement plan that is sure to make a connection with your schools and county officials? Come learn how Cumberland County implemented a two-year plan that included how to become a registered voter, a county-wide scavenger hunt, local history lessons, economic and government facts as well as specific topics for the poster and speech contests and including two large-scale service projects. Also, learn how they took it to the next level by including state, national and even international information (people, places, events) as it relates to the state curriculum benchmarks. Disconnect with ideas to formulate your own county plan.
Session Title: "County Shooting Sports Program 101"
Teaching Team: Taunee Whittenbarger, Randall Cooper and Pat Daley
Session Description: Come learn how Cumberland County started its first shooting sports program. Find out how the program started, how volunteers were recruited, where funding came from, what we accomplished and what we are planning for this year. Questions welcome.
Session Title: "The 4-H Portfolio - A Door for Opportunities"
Teaching Team: Steve Sutton
Session Description: At times youth (and adults) feel lost as to how to develop a 4-H portfolio. During this workshop each part of the portfolio will be explained and strategies for success will be presented. Participants will learn how to put a portfolio together and why developing a portfolio can provide numerous opportunities for a 4-H member.
Session Title: "Youth-Adult Partnerships: Growing Teens the 4-H Way"
Teaching Team: Marisa Lemley and State 4-H Council members
Session Description: Participants will have the opportunity to hear about strategies for working with teens from teens. This promises to be a fun filled session!
Session Title: "FUNd Raising with 4-H"
Teaching Team: Mark Gateley
Session Description: Fund raising for 4-H means opportunities for both youth and adults to make a difference in the quality and expansion of the 4-H program… when done the right way. Accountability is an important lesson to teach our youth .Guidelines and procedures to ensure that the whole funding process is positive will be presented. Different methods for developing funding for the 4-H Youth Development program will also be presented. Participants will receive handouts and have some great hands-on experiences. |
This is an event you will want to attend. An effort will be made to have all handouts on a CD for those attending the forum.
Registration forms are due February 8, 2008. Sending your registration in on time will allow us to plan and be prepared for you. If you have questions, please contact me either by email cburgos@utk.edu or by phone (865) 974-2128.
Carmen Burgos
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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LAST CALL FOR 4-H BEEKEEPING ESSAYS
Just a reminder to everyone that essays for The Federation for the Preservation of Honey Bees, Inc.’s essay contest are due in the state 4-H office no later than February 1, 2008. The contest was first announced in the August 31 (Volume 07:Number 35) issue of your Tennessee 4-H Ideas newsletter and a copy of the rules can be found online at 4h.tennessee.edu/beeessay/. The contest is open to all active 4-H members. Please encourage your 4-H’ers to participate.
Steve Sutton
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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THE LEADERSHIP SERIES
Over the past several months, I have been compiling, writing, modifying, etc. a number of leadership modules. These resources are a collection of materials that have been used by others in past programs or developed by me for class or other work-related projects. They have been used with both youth and adult audiences to teach the basics of leadership.
Throughout the next few weeks, I want to share these with you for use in your 4-H youth development programs. Each of these activities highlight a different aspect of leadership. They are simple activities that require very few… if any… materials. They are designed in a step-by-step format that provides a list of materials needed, detailed instruction, and background/objective information. In many cases, there is an evaluation and/or follow-up included.
The first activity in The Leadership Series is entitled Leading with Legos and can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08/attach/Leading_with_Legos.pdf. The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate that there is not just one aspect of leadership that is more important than another. As leaders, we each have different areas of strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes we need to adjust our leadership preferences and styles depending on a particular situation.
I hope you enjoy the activity and find it useful. Watch for another leadership activity to be included in next week's edition of Ideas. If you have any questions, ideas or suggestions, please contact me at lbelew@utk.edu.
Lori Belew
Extension Assistant
4-H Youth Development
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TENNESSEE 4-H CONGRESS ESSAY CONTEST
Each delegate to Tennessee 4-H Congress will prepare an essay of no more than 500 words on the theme: “Tennessee 4-H: Wired for Success.” Each region will submit one essay for state competition. A state winner will be chosen from the three regional winners. Essays will be judged on the following scale:
* Subject matter content - 50 points
* Grammatical composition - 30 points
* Originality/creativity - 15 points
* Neatness - 5 points |
Regional winners receive a pen and pencil set and a $50 savings bond. The state winner receives a desk set. The awards are donated by Jenny Yeary, Eastern Region secretary (pen and pencil sets and desk set) and the Former University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture Workers Association (savings bonds).
Steve Sutton
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
~ Zachary Scott
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