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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE 4-H Enrollment: Beginning Another Great Year! UPCOMING EVENTS August 24-29
August 27
September 11- 20
September 11- 20
September 19
September 19
September 25-26
September 25-October 4
October 1-4
October 4-10
October 8-11
October 16-17
October 17
October 25-29
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/09-index.htm 4-H ENROLLMENT: BEGINNING ANOTHER GREAT YEAR! Congratulations! Reports were completed and the 2009 annual enrollment rollover took place August 17. I have been asked about the rollover and cannot explain it any better than what Joseph Donaldson did in his email sent August 17. Joseph Donaldson explains that the statewide rollover deleted all inactive enrollees (not just 4-H) and changed the status of all active enrollees to inactive. The purpose of the annual enrollment rollover is to improve efficiency. The first efficiency gain is deleting contact information for individual enrollees who are no longer involved in Extension programs. Second, the rollover provides an excellent way to check participation lists, including mailing lists, for accuracy. Finally, the rollover establishes a standard re-enrollment process for the coming year that provides accurate counts for various annual reports.” What now? Enrollment data for the new year can be entered. All of your old clubs are still in SUPER. If you have new clubs or any changes in the clubs you used last year, please make additions/changes before you start activating enrollees. To make club changes, go to the enrollment module, click on “Manage” and make the changes you need. When enrolling youth in grades 5 and above, think re-enrollment. In other words, make sure the youth was not enrolled last year. If you are in the enrollment module already, click on “Search” from the subtopic bar, then enter the youth’s first or last name, select “all inactive records “ and click “search” first. If you find the enrollee’s name:
If the youth is not found, click on “enroll” from the subtopic bar and proceed to enroll as a new member. You are now compiling data for the 2010 reporting year so please use 2010 for all new activities and awards entered . If you have questions or would like help with reporting and data management strategies, contact me and I will be happy to work with you. Now is the best time to establish the procedures needed to facilitate accurate reporting in a timely manner. If the person entering data in SUPER has not completed any training in using SUPER, this is the time to bring them up to speed and either request training or have them view the videos Joseph Donaldson has developed and posted to online.utk.edu. If you or the person that is assisting you, have not received any training in Excel talk to your county director or regional staff about receiving training in Excel. Utilizing Excel once reports are generated from SUPER can provide a number of shortcuts and save time. Wishing everyone a great 2010 4-H year! Carmen Burgos Are you ready for some football? If so, then please make plans to attend Ag Day on the UT agriculture campus and then join other 4-H members/supporters for 4-H Night at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, September 26! Tickets are currently available online at 4h.tennessee.edu/4hfootball/. Please promote this opportunity to your 4-H members and supporters! Tickets are $40.00 (plus a $2.50 processing fee). Your ticket price includes an $8.00 meal voucher. Seats are limited so please encourage parents/4-H members to order their tickets early. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. For more on Ag Day go to www.agriculture.utk.edu/news/releases/2009/0907AgDay.html. Justin Crowe DELTA FAIR YOUTH PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION The Delta Fair in Memphis is sponsoring a youth public speaking contest, Saturday, September 12, 2009, beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the Agricenter Amphitheater (located inside the Agricenter. The speech should be written by the participant and be related to the theme “Go Green.” For example, the benefits of going “green” at the Delta Fair, school, home, community and etc… The divisions and speech time limits are as follows.
Note cards may be used, but contestants should not read their speech to the judges. Contestants will be judged on the following criteria: eye contact, professional attire or Sunday dress, preparedness, introduction and conclusion, and organization of speech. No visuals aids should be used. Awards will be given to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each division. The deadline to register is Thursday, September 10. The registration from can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/attach/deltafair.doc and should be mailed or faxed to:
If you have any questions, please contact Becky at 901-752-1207. Steve Sutton LAND JUDGING MANUAL AVAILABLE ONLINE We have had some questions recently about the availability of the Land Judging Manual (PB727). This is an online publication only and can be downloaded at bioengr.ag.utk.edu/Extension/ExtPubs/LandJudgingGuidePB727.pdf. Steve Sutton Recently, a team of 4-H agents interested in learning more about civic education attended national Project Citizen institutes. Extension agents Jennifer Balding, Bradley County; Meagen Brown, Meigs County; Karen Nelms, Grainger County; Sarah Rogers, McMinn County; and Sarah Vaden, Anderson County attended a week-long institute in Boise, Idaho along with Extension specialist Justin Crowe. Dickson County Extension agent Renee Badon attended an institute Louisville, Kentucky. These individuals applied for and received scholarships to attend these conferences. As a result of being trained in Project Citizen, a curriculum designed to teach middle school and high school youth to become civic change agents in their community, these agents received a free classroom set of curricula and additional resources to help enhance their county 4-H citizenship program. Plans are currently underway to offer one-day Project Citizen trainings around the state. These trainings will be offered this fall. If you are planning to complete an IAA in 4-H Civic Minded Leadership, then the Project Citizen curriculum would be beneficial to you as it is a recommended curriculum in that action agenda. Justin Crowe TENNESSEE 4-H LIVESTOCK SKILLATHON TEAM SELECTED Six individuals have earned the opportunity to represent Tennessee in the National 4-H Livestock Skillathon Contest hosted by the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky. First and second place individuals from the 11th-12th grade division of the skillathons at the Tennessee Junior Livestock Beef and Sheep events and the Tennessee 4-H Market Hog Show have qualified for the state team. Kayla Kimes (Clay County) and Sarah Norman (Williamson County) earned their team spots from the swine skillathon; Montgomery Dempsey (Shelby County) and Amanda Cain (DeKalb County) won the beef skillathon; and Hannah Wolters (Maury County) and Samantha Satterfield (Macon County) qualified through the sheep skillathon. The team will be coached by Randall Kimes (Clay County) and Carol McDonald (Smith County). The team will be trained through a Web site with training materials and several team training sessions prior to the contest. The national contest consists of individual tasks and team activities. Dwight Loveday TENNESSEE DELEGATES RETURN FROM NICE CONFERENCE Lindsey Clayton from Warren County and Morgan Beaty from Blount County recently represented Tennessee at the 2009 National Institute on Cooperative Education (NICE) Conference. The conference was held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, July 25-29. Lindsey Rochelle from Hickman County and Erika Betschart from Warren County returned as student leaders to the 2009 NICE conference, because of their outstanding involvement in the 2008 conference. The conference provides delegates with a deeper understanding of cooperatives. Participants learned how cooperatives differ from other business forms and heard cooperative success stories in both the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. Attendees also got to serve as managers of a simulated cooperative store, competing with other stores in their market area for sales and profit. These teams also analyzed case studies, developed their own student-run cooperative and participated in team-building and leadership development activities.The closing session recognized teams that were top performers in various conference activities. Lindsey and Morgan were selected for this honor as result of being state finalists in Level II citizenship and leadership competition at Tennessee 4-H Congress earlier this spring. Their trip was sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Cooperatives. Steve Sutton THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK People are like holidays. Do others see you as Christmas, or more like Tax Day?
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