Tennessee 4-H Ideas: 08-09

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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS
VOLUME 08 - Issue 09
February 29, 2008

IN THIS ISSUE

4-H Scholarship Applications Still Being Accepted
Make It an Honor to Be in Honor Club
Portfolios Due May 1
Searching for 4-H SET Alumni
SUPER Q & A: Part # 4
UTK Block and Bridle Club Lamb Sale and Skill-a-Thon Competition

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 29

TN Piggy Bank Pageant County Notification Due - Wilson County Extension Office

February 29-March 1

State 4-H Volunteer Leader Forum - Crossville

February 29-March 2

State 4-H Council Meeting - Crossville

March 1

G.L. Herrington Scholarship Applications Due - State 4-H Office

March 1

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

March 29

Performing Arts Troupe Live Auditions - Nashville

March 29-April 3

National 4-H Conference - Chevy Chase, MD

March 30-April 2

Tennessee 4-H Congress - Nashville

April 1

Tennessee 4-H Foundation, Inc. Annual Meeting - Nashville

April 11-12

4-H Shooting Sports State Shoot - Columbia

April 12-14

National LifeSmarts Competition - Minneapolis, MN

April 13-18

National 4-H Shooting Sports Workshop - Kerrville, TX

April 21

Performing Arts Troupe Audition Tapes Due - Central Region Office

April 22-24

Statewide 4-H Inservice - Henry Horton State Park

April 24-25

Knoxville Spring Junior Cattle Exposition - Knoxville

April 28

Junior Market Goat Field Day - Woodbury

April 30-May 2

TAE4-HW Annual Meeting - Paris Landing State Park

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

4-H SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS STILL BEING ACCEPTED

4-H scholarship applications are due in the state 4-H office on May 1. (The exception being the G.L. Herrington scholarship which was due March 1.) The following scholarships are still available:

African-American Scholarship
AGR Scholarship
Alan Peace Memorial Scholarship
Barbara O’Neal Memorial Scholarship
Charline H. Powell Scholarship
Earl Knepp Agricultural Scholarship
Farm Credit Scholarship
FarmHouse Agricultural Scholarship
Gilbert N. Rhodes Agricultural Scholarship
Harold Robbins Agricultural Scholarship
Hamilton-Brown Scholarship

Kenneth Ambrose Agricultural Scholarship
Lovelace-McKinney Scholarship
Mary Basinger Elliot Memorial Scholarship
Mary Neil Alexander Scholarship
Mary Stanfill Home Economics Scholarship
Mary Stanfill Memorial Scholarship
TEAFCS Scholarship
TFGA Mary B. Cooper Scholarship
Tennessee Rural Health Nursing Scholarship
Troy & Susie Johnson Memorial Scholarship
W.B. & Imogene Kyker Agricultural Scholarship

Please make your 4-H members aware of these opportunities. A detailed description of each scholarship can be found in Tennessee 4-H Awards and Recognition Handbook or online at 4h.tennessee.edu/recognhndbook/sect06.htm.

Scholarship applications were emailed to each county Extension office last December. If you need a Tennessee 4-H scholarship application form, they are available from the state 4-H office or from the Tennessee 4-H forms page at 4h.tennessee.edu/forms&materials/.

Steve Sutton
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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MAKE IT AN HONOR TO BE IN HONOR CLUB

Honor Club is the first step in Tennessee’s three-level recognition program... Honor Club, All Stars and Vol State. Honor Club recognizes members for participation. Membership does not involve being the winner in any kind of competition. Members receive points just for participating. Any 4-H’er qualifying with the minimum number of points on the application can achieve Honor Club recognition.

How can you make it an honor to be in your county Honor Club? One way to make Honor Club special is to stage an impressive induction ceremony for all your new initiates. Recognize your initiates at an appropriate time in front of their parents, peers, county officials or others they view as important to them.

The Tennessee 4-H Honor Club Recognition Ceremony (EC750) is a step-by-step guide to staging a candlelight Honor Club initiation ceremony. The publication comes complete with a script, list of materials needed and staging diagram. If you do not have a copy in your office, it is available online from the “Forms & Materials” page on the Tennessee 4-H Web site at 4htennessee.edu/forms&materials/. The direct link is 4h.tennessee.edu/forms/acrobat/ec750.pdf.

Honor Club recognizes members for meeting a standard of excellence and recognition is a strategy for helping young people become more capable and confident. Through the acknowledgment, affirmation, and positive reinforcement of members’ efforts, feeling of competence and capability increase and participation continues. An impressive initiation ceremony can be the first step in building that competence and capability in your Honor Club members.

Steve Sutton
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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PORTFOLIOS DUE MAY 1

Level I and Level II portfolios are due from each county in the state 4-H office by May 1. Please use the following address:

State 4-H Office
2621 Morgan Circle, Room 205
Knoxville, TN 37996-4510

If you want to bring your portfolios to the TAE4-HW Annual Meeting at Paris Landing State Park, April 30 - May 2, we will be glad to transport them to the state 4-H office for you. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Steve Sutton
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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SEARCHING FOR 4-H SET ALUMNI

Do you know a former 4-H'er working in pharmaceutical research, environmental science, engineering, biological or chemical science, aerospace, technology, or plant and animal science? If so, National 4-H Council is looking for 4-H alumni to feature in an upcoming promotion. Please take a moment to make them aware of a short 10-minute survey! You can visit www.fourhcouncil.edu to access the survey and learn more about the 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology (4-H SET) program.

Daniel Sarver
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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SUPER Q & A: PART # 4

Here are some more questions that have come in over phone and email. Please continue to send questions regarding enrollment!

Q.	I have entered my TNCEP volunteers in SUPER. There is an question regarding an application. Where do I find one specific to FCS?
A.	Extension volunteers working with youth need to complete a 4-H volunteer application, and it should be approved before they work directly with youth. There are two 4-H forms you can use. 1) F809 is a longer application and used when volunteers have community clubs, work with judging teams, have a project group or will be spending the night at a 4-H event such as camp, 4-H Roundup, 4-H Congress, etc. 2) F832 is a short application used when volunteers meet youth in school clubs, work with youth on a project in the presence of a number of approved adult volunteers or an agent, help with a specific 4-H activity every year that does not require an overnight stay such as fair exhibit, judging competition, etc. All volunteers should also have references checked (F811) and a signed F833: Agreement and Standard of Behavior. These requirements are part of our efforts to provide a safe environment for youth and adults during an Extension program, event or activity.

Q.	I am updating our Extension volunteers on SUPER. In our Blue Ribbon program we included classroom teachers where 4-H meeting were held and principals of the school as either direct or indirect volunteer leaders. Should we enter these in SUPER as volunteers?
A.	Enter people that render some type of service (work) to Extension and do not receive pay. An individual entered as a volunteer in SUPER has liability coverage through the university. School personnel present a different situation. If they are providing the service during school hours, it is part of their work activity, and it is not done regularly, you can count their involvement through SUPER delivery module. If you are interested in capturing their efforts as a volunteer in 4-H and be counted in the Annual Enrollment Report, they should be enrolled in SUPER as a volunteer.

Q.	Once the 2007 Annual Enrollment Report was generated, how are we supposed to report the rest of the year? Do I need to go back and redo activities to 2008 even though they took place in 2007 school year?
A.	A report was generated for 2007, but a roll-over did not take place. All data is still in the system in an active mode. Continue to enroll and enter data on 4-H members and volunteers in your county. You can use 2008 as the date. The next 4-H Annual Enrollment Report is due August 1, 2008. All data on members and volunteers for 2007-08 should be entered by this date. A roll-over is scheduled for August 15 for all the files in SUPER Enrollment module. This means all youth and adults entered in SUPER will become inactive to start the new year. Tip: When entering an activity for youth in the same club, use the list feature in the enrollment module to create the club membership list. Click on the name of a youth, add the activity and go back to the list and select another youth. Continue down the list instead doing an individual search.

Carmen Burgos
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
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UTK BLOCK AND BRIDLE CLUB LAMB SALE AND SKILL-A-THON COMPETITION

The UTK Block and Bridle Club Lamb Sale will take place Saturday, April 5. Viewing will begin at 1:00 p.m. with the sale starting at 3:00 p.m. The sale will be held in the Brehm Animal Science Arena. At this time it looks that there will be 35-40 quality lambs for sale. If anyone is interest in selling lambs or has any questions, please email Ryan Hensley at rhensle5@utk.edu or call 865-679-1862.

The Skill-A-Thon competition will begin at 11:00 a.m. The competition will be divided into three age divisions: 4th-6th grade, 7th-8th grade and 9th-12th grade. The winners in each division will be awarded a $75 voucher to be used toward the purchase of a lamb in B&B Club Lamb Sale, second place individuals will receive a $50 voucher and third place will receive a $25 voucher. Dwight Loveday will be assisting in the planning of the Skill-A-Thon competition. This is a great opportunity for the 4-H'ers to practice for the Skill-A-Thon and earn some money to purchase their lamb.

Ryan Hensley
Club Lamb Sale Co-chair
UTK Block and Bridle Club
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
~ Henry C. Link