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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE Azukaru UPCOMING EVENTS
October 4-10
October 8-11
October 16-17
October 17
October 25-29
November 6-8
November 9
November 27-December 1
December 5
December 5-6
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/09index.htm Azukaru is another one of my favorite Web sites! Azukaru is like iTunes for experiential games. You can find, buy ($3 to $5), manage and use activities from great authors! There is no other site on the Web that packages professional activity content with practical functionality. Check it out at www.azukaru.com. Lori Belew BEDFORD COUNTY 4-H’ER SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP ROLE AT NATIONAL CONGRESS Grant Davis from Bedford County has been selected to the 2009 National 4-H Congress youth leadership team. Grant was chosen from candidates from across the United States based on an application and video tape reflecting his citizenship, leadership and speaking skills. He will be serving in key leadership roles during the Congress in Atlanta. Grant is attending National 4-H Congress as a state winner in the plant science project. The Congress will be held November 27-December 1, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. We congratulate Grant on his selection and know Tennessee will be well represented. For more information on National 4-H Congress and the Tennessee delegation, please visit the Web site at 4h.tennessee.edu/natcong/index.htm. Steve Sutton CSREES NAME CHANGE TO NIFA BECOMES OFFICIAL On October 1, CSREES became the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Suzanne Le Menestrel, Acting Director, 4-H Youth Development has also announced a name change from “National 4-H Headquarters” to “4-H National Headquarters.” This new name places an emphasis on the 4-H organization and underscores the leadership that USDA provides to the 4-H organization. Steve Sutton ENERGIZING TENNESSEE 4-H OFF AND RUNNING We have just completed the training workshops for Energizing Tennessee 4-H this year. Thanks to the 51 counties who participated and for all the enthusiasm and fun! We are looking forward to some great programming. A big thanks goes to Ramona Nelson and the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Energy Policy for providing the workshops. Correction! Please add McNairy County to the list of counties involved in the Energizing Tennessee 4-H program for 2009-10. Daniel Sarver FREE DAIRY DVD AVAILABLE FROM SUDIA “Milk on the Mooove: From Farm to You” is an educational video that has been specially designed for youth from kindergarten to 5th grade. With most youth today being four generations removed from a farm, it is essential to educate them about the dairy foods they consume. Through this educational video, educators are able to take youth on a tour of daily dairy processes from the farm to their school lunchrooms. It shows how dairy farm families care for their animals, take advantage of modern technology and play an important role in providing young people with safe and wholesome foods. Contact The Southeast United Dairy Industry Association, Inc. (SUDIA) to receive your FREE copy of this DVD. Digital versions are also available at www.southeastdairy.org and YouTube.com. Call Camilla Ellis at 1-800-928-6455 or email her at cellis@sedairy.org to order a copy. Steve Sutton FREE LEADERSHIP RESOURCES AVAILABLE For those of you who have a special interest in leadership and leadership activities or who are just looking for new icebreaker materials, please allow me to introduce you to Training Wheels. Training Wheels is a leader in the team-building industry and prides itself in creating quality, affordable activities, books and trainings for those seeking experiential resources ... very important for 4-H! I visit their Web site often to get facilitation tips. I also receive their free e-newsletter a couple of times each month. When I signed up for their newsletter, I received several free activities that I have been able to use with 4-H. I wanted to share this resource with you as well as one of the free icebreaker activities that was included in this month's e-newsletter. The icebreaker is entitled "As If ..." and can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/attach/AsIfIcebreaker.pdf. Visit www.training-wheels.com to learn more! Lori Belew JUNIOR HIGH RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITY Many counties do not take advantage of the Junior High Continuing Service Award provided by the Tennessee 4-H Alumni, Inc. The award is to recognize junior high 4-H members who have:
Each county may recommend two members. In addition to these two members, you may recommend one member for each 100, or major fraction thereof, junior high 4-H members in your county. This number is based on the junior high enrollment on July 1 of the current calendar year. You should recommend your recipients to us on the Tennessee Junior High 4-H Continuing Service Award Nomination Form available from the state 4-H office or the 4-H forms page at 4h.tennessee.eud/forms&materials/index.htm. Each recipient will receive a Tennessee Junior High Continuing Service Award certificate. There is no cost to the county. A member can receive the award only one time. Steve Sutton Kids’ Science Challenge is a free nationwide competition for 3rd to 6th graders funded by the National Science Foundation. 4-H kids can have fun learning the principals of science and engineering while seeing their ideas come alive. Along with an exciting competition, KSC offers a suite of online projects, activities and curricula designed to national science education standards; as well as fun and educational videos, games, interactive learning opportunities and an extraordinary group of kid-friendly scientists and engineers. Students learn about the work of a select group of scientists and engineers on KSC’s Web site: kidsciencechallenge.com. Kids submit their own problems and experiments to these scientists and then winning ideas are chosen on the basis of originality, do-ability and grasp of scientific principles. Competition winners visit and collaborate with the scientists to see their ideas turned into realities. Kids, parents and 4-H leaders can follow this process online. The competition runs from October 1, 2009 - February 28, 2010. The first thousand entrants receive a free Science Activity Kit. 771 kids from all over the country entered last year’s KSC competition. Daniel Sarver MARSHALL COUNTY DAIRY TEAM BACK FROM HARRISBURG The Marshall County 4-H dairy judging team represented Tennessee in the All-American Dairy Judging Contest in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Team members were Andrew Jordan, Allison Scott, Caleb Whaley and Ross Strasser. The event was held at the Farm-Show Complex on September 19. Marshall County previously won the right to represent Tennessee at this contest at the State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest last month at the Wilson County Fair. The Marshall County team was recognized for individual and team honors during the awards ceremony. Andrew Jordan was 5th high individual in Jerseys, 14th high in reasons and 9th high individual overall. The team was 9th high team in Guernseys and 11th high team overall. While in Pennsylvania, the team toured and visited Amish Country in Lancaster and Strasburg as well as Hersey where they got to taste test chocolate candy. The team also toured Gettysburg National Battlefield on their way home. They were accompanied to Harrisburg by coach Jenny Stasser and county Extension agent Trent Jones. Trent Jones The Spokesperson e-newsletter is a free service that subscribers can anticipate receiving two-to-three times a month. The content varies from an Activity of the Month, a Book of the Month, a Non-Prop Activity of the Month, and great facilitator tips and tools. You will receive fresh ideas and innovative activities to enhance your facilitation skills and practice. Each person who signs up is entitled to a copy of the free e-book, Playing With a Full Deck. It has nine (9) sample activities from Michelle Cummings’ book, Playing With a Full Deck, 52 Team Activities Using a Deck of Cards. The link for this book will be emailed to you when you subscribe to the newsletter. Lori Belew THIRD QUARTER HONOR CLUB SUMMARY Go to 4h.tennessee.edu/honorclub/howmany.htm for a summary of the 2009 Honor Club initiates through September. The Central Region leads the state with 160 initiates. Moore is the top county in the state with 21 initiates; followed by Grainger and Knox with 18; and Sumner and Warren with 14. Nocona Canady, one of our student assistants, is working with Honor Club this year. If you have Honor Club applications to be approved, be sure to use a summary form to list the applicants and allow enough time for her to review and approve the applications in time for your initiation ceremony. Steve Sutton If you are a 4-H member and think you know where the 4-H bear is this week, please email the specific location to jcrowe3@utk.edu. The first person to guess correctly will win a prize which will be mailed to you. Be sure to include your name, complete mailing address and telephone number in your email. This week’s location can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/images/cloverbear4.jpg. Justin Crowe THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
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