Oklahoma State University

Upcoming Events

  February 2012

 ::  17 • 4-H Science Museum Bright Night • OKC
 ::  18 • OSU Horse Judging Day • OSU
 ::  18 • 4-H Pet Fun Day • Tulsa Fairgrounds
 ::  24 • 4-H Science Museum Bright Night • OKC
 ::  26 • Amb. Spring Mtg & Capitol Day Training • 123 AnSci, OSU
Entire Calendar

 
  • Team Goals
  • Officer Profiles

2008-09 Team Goals

• Be effective communicators

• Integrate new team members

• Positive advocate for transitioning to a leadership team structure which will draw upon our rich heritage while providing meaningful leadership experiences while better serving Oklahoma 's counties.

• Support 4-H enthusiasm through Centennial activities.

Team Projects

Centennial

• Each One Reach One - “100” new members per county

• Traveling Workshop – Centennial Alumni Video Production - how to interview, film and edit interviews with Alumni.

• Life in the Time of a ____ ( 1930's - decade) 4-H Member (American Girl) - Historical perspective of what was going on in that decade, what kinds of projects 4-H members did, club meetings, uniforms, service projects based on social needs, etc. Presenter will assume a “character,” wear a period costumes and re-enact the “script/speech” at banquets, 4-H birthday parties, ceremonies, etc.

100 Years of Service - projects – Clubs will report projects through You-tube type video's and they will be posted on the 4-H web site. Each district will get to select and submit their top 25. At 2009 Roundup the top 100 will be recognized. You-tube videos will be shown for the top ___ (number yet to be determined).

Traveling Workshop - Officer Training

Content 2
Matthew Taylor – State Council Chair
Pontotoc County

Personal Goals

  • To continue to develop my organizational skills
  • Be a positive influence for younger 4-H members
  • Develop more time management skills
  • Enhance my communication skills

Professional Goals

  • Visit half of the counties in Oklahoma
  • Develop a 4-H program that can be used to help promote team work
  • Increase contact with 4-H Alumni

Team Goals

  • To keep communication open with the State Council/State 4-H Office/ Oklahoma 4-H Foundation
  • To make a positive difference in the lives of Oklahoma 4-H members and volunteers
  • To reach a new height of enrollment in the Oklahoma 4-H program

Keynote Address: It Builds Character

The purpose of 4-H is not to have 1 st place 4-H projects but to develop blue ribbon 4-H members; members with determination, enthusiasm and character. “It Builds Character” is aimed at showing how 4-H helps develop positive character traits through project work. It challenges 4-H members to develop these traits that will eventually become their destiny.

Workshop: Plainly Speaking

One of the most important life skills that 4-H helps youth develop is public speaking. This workshop highlights the basics of public speaking. From an attention getting introduction through a well thought out conclusion, this workshop includes a hands-on activity that will help stretch the creativity and put new life into a public speaking project.

 

Robert Maples – NE District Representative
Okfuskee County

Cluster 3 : Payne, Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Lincoln, McIntosh and Sequoyah Counties

Personal Goals

  • To become a more confident speaker
  • To sharpen my time management skills
  • To become more organized

Professional Goals

  • To represent my district in their views on various subjects on the State Council
  • To share my passion for the 4-H program throughout the state of Oklahoma
  • To present a positive image for the Oklahoma 4-H Program

Team Goals

  • To keep communication open between the State Council, State 4-H Office and Oklahoma 4-H Foundation
  • To make a positive difference in the lives of Oklahoma 4-H members and volunteers
  • Increase enrollment in the Oklahoma 4-H program

Keynote : A Life in 4-H: It's Really Simple

Come find out the simple man's philosophy regarding involvement in the 4-H program. Through the up's and down's, challenges, and successes…it all comes down to being willing to learn, persevering, and serving others. These three things can help accomplish any goal in the 4-H program.

Workshop: 4-H Livestock Projects: More Than the Show

Explore the world of opportunities outside of the show ring. Participants will gain insight into their livestock projects regarding educational opportunities, promotional methods, as well as examples of community service. This hands-on workshop also includes games and activities as you discover the interrelationship between a 4-H livestock project and other related 4-H project areas.

 

McKinzey Baab – NE District Representative
Tulsa County

Cluster 2 : Pawnee, Osage, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington and Sequoyah Counties

Personal Goals

  • Positive and energetic attitude that draws people to 4-H and develops their love and adoration of 4-H
  • Meet deadlines in a timely manner
  • Attend meetings, events and activities required of my position on the Council
  • Through all I do be a conservative role model for others

Professional Goals

  • Being available with time and talents upon request
  • Recruiting youth to join 4-H so they can learn life skills needed for a successful lifestyle
  • Display effectiveness in 4-H by staying in touch with and keeping counties informed within my cluster
  • Visiting each counties within my cluster to present at least 3 workshops per year

Team Goals

  • Grow as a team – get to know each individual of the 2007, 2008, and 2009 teams
  • Be there for my team - available and supportive of their needs
  • Be caring and honest with the people/team
  • Get along with everyone – encourage a positive atmosphere and ideals for Oklahoma 4-H

 

Charles Maloy NE District Representative
Rogers County

Cluster 4: Nowata, Mayes, Rogers, Muskogee, Cherokee and Sequoyah Counties

Personal Goals

  • Learn how to effectively communicate to different ages of individuals
  • Be more organized in all facets of my life
  • Use good time management to get the most out of every second
  • Learn how to deal with different attitude types effectively

Professional Goals

  • Get all reports turned in a timely manner
  • Keep in contact with all of my assigned counties
  • Present workshops in counties not only in my cluster but outside of it as well
  • Make sure Tyler's cluster is taken care of

Team Goals

  • Always encourage fellow team members
  • Stay cheerful and use my strengths to help other's weaknesses
  • Keep in contact with my fellow team members
  • Do all of my committee work to the fullest extent possible

 

Dakota Riley NE At-Large District Representative
Ottawa County

Cluster 1: Ottawa, Adair, Craig, Delaware and Sequoyah Counties

Personal Goals

  • Be more confident - step out of my comfort zone
  • Be a better leader
  • Learn to be more organized
  • Improve record keeping skills

Professional Goals

  • Set good examples for younger youth
  • Be on my best behavior, representing both myself and 4-H in the best light
  • Recruit 30 new members
  • Present at least 20 presentations during my term

Team Goals

  • Learn confidence by finding the qualities of my 4-H mentors which work best for me
  • Earn respect of each team member
  • To be available to any team member
  • Help others with their projects and committee work

 

Sarah Major NW District Representative
Kay County

Cluster 1: Grant, Garfield, Kay, and Noble Counties

Keynote: Are you worth eight cows?

Sarah shares an endearing story about confidence and helping others discover their self worth. We will explore ways to build up self esteem in ourselves and others as we learn about Johnny Lingo, a man who goes above and beyond what is expected of him to show his loved ones how much he is worth.

Workshop: Teamwork

Team work and Communication are a necessity for success. Through interactive games and activities members will learn effective ways to work and communicate with others.

 

Meagan Rhodes NW District Representative
Major County

Cluster 3 : Woods, Alfalfa, Woodward, and Major Counties

Personal Goals

• Become a better communicator

• Become a better leader

Professional Goals

• Get more people involved at the local and county level

• Work within my cluster to get more youth and adults involved

Team Goals

• Learn to understand and work with other team members

• Read materials and be prepared

James Syzemore NW District Representative
Blaine County

Cluster 2 : Harper, Ellis, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron Counties

Personal Goals

  • To become a better public speaker
  • Represent 4-H well
  • Do my job as a representative by doing things well the first time
  • Be a leader who steps up to any and all challenges

Professional Goals

• Help people and counties in any way shape or form

• Encourage members, volunteers and educators to be active and involved in 4-H programs by sharing information and presenting programs

• Being available and active

• Share the 4-H story with the general public – what it has to offer and what 4-H can do for both youth and adult volunteers

Team Goals

• Do without being asked or told

• Be on time

• Make a positive effort at all we do

• Be a well trusted team mate, who can be counted on

 

Austin Kindschi NW District Representative
Logan County

Cluster 4: Dewey, Blaine, Kingfisher, and Logan Counties

Personal Goals

• Spread the news – what 4-H can do to have a positive influence on your future

• Be on time and prepared

• Believe in myself - enhance my personal skills

• Be honest and true to myself

Professional Goals

• Represent 4-H in a respectable and positive manner

• Spread the story of 4-H to 2,000 people

• Recruit 100 new members

• Collect $1500 for the March of Dimes

Team Goals

• Work together and respect everyone

• Utilize personal skills to achieve team goals

• Leave no one out of the decision making process

• Be ourselves

 

Ashley Fuksa NW At-Large District Representative
Kingfisher County

Personal Goals

• Become more organized

• Increase my activity in surrounding counties

• Improve my leadership skills through team projects

• Increased confidence in contributing ideas

Professional Goals

• Get more involved across the state

• Communicate the different opportunities 4-H has to offer

• Share how 4-H has changed the lives of people

• Share how 4-H develops skills which make youth successful in life

Team Goals

• Be involved in activities across the state

• Learn to use the computer more effectively as a council member

• Reach out to 4-H supporters

• Manage time more efficiently

 

Clint Maxcey SE District Representative
Pittsburg County

Cluster 1: Pittsburg, Haskell, Latimer, and LeFlore Counties

Personal Goals

  • Improve punctuality
  • Improve creativity
  • Improve enthusiasm
  • Build connections with donors outside of my county

Professional Goals

  • Visit all 77 counties
  • Let my delegates voices be heard
  • Speak to all 4 districts
  • Double the delegation to Roundup

Team Goals

  • Maintain communication with team members
  • Grow closer as State Council team
  • Make 4-H more visible

Teach younger 4-Hers about the wonders that come from the world of 4-H

Keynote: Working Together

Anything worth doing is worth doing well so why not work together during this Keynote I hope to pass along the importance of teamwork and w2orking together to accomplish a common goal 

Workshop: The Inner You

You constantly hear people say be yourself, but how can you do this if you don't know who you are. Through this workshop I hope to help you find out who you are and what that means.

 

Kortney Teachey SE District Representative
Pontotoc County

Cluster 3: Pottawatomie, Seminole, Hughes, Pontotoc, and Coal Counties

Personal Goals

  • Improve time management skills
  • Work well with others
  • Increase communication skills
  • To continue being a good role model for younger member

Professional Goals

  • Increase participation
  • Improve team skills
  • Help maintain 4-H relations with people
  • Make 4-H more visible across my district and the state

Team Goals

  • Increase enrollment and participation within my cluster
  • Practice good time managing skills
  • Good communication - the ability to work with others and blend every ones ideas

 

Shane Jemison SE District Representative
Johnston County

Cluster 2: Love, Carter, Marshall, Johnston, and Murray Counties

Personal Goals

  • Keep confidence high
  • Get to know people in my cluster, district and across the state
  • Become a good mentor for my cluster - Johnston, Marshall, Love, Murray and Carter Counties
  • Learn to pack a suitcase well and not over pack

Professional Goals

  • Involve more youth in the 4-H program
  • Be at my best when serving the counties in my clusters, as well as serving my district and state
  • Teach and inform others that 4-H is more than just a “program”, it is a leadership opportunity
  • Be a leader for the “new era” or second century of 4-H, just as the Corn Club set the example in the first 100 years

Team Goals

  • Work together as a great team
  • Continue to make the best better in 4-H
  • Help keep the team focused and lend a hand when needed
  • Keep everyone smiling

 

Maddi Shires SE District Representative
Bryan County

Cluster 4 - McCurtain, Pushmataha, Choctaw, Bryan, and Atoka Counties

Personal Goals

  • Be a more effective speaker
  • Develop skills which will make me an effective workshop presenter
  • Be a good role model for the youth in my cluster
  • To give my role as representative 100%

Professional Goals

  • To increase enrollment in my cluster – McCurtain, Pushmataha, Choctaw, Bryan and Atoka counties
  • Keep public perception of 4-H image as a positive youth group
  • Be known for the quality of my work as a representative

Team Goals

  • Always be on time with meetings, assignments and deadline
  • Keep up my correspondence with every one
  • Always have an open mind

 

Ashlan Wilson SE At-Large District Representative
Hughes County

Personal Goals

  • Improve my organizational skills
  • Discipline myself to complete tasks on time
  • Improve my public speaking skills with practice
  • Maintain a healthy lifestyle and learn to manage stress

Professional Goals

  • Visit every county in my district and get to know volunteers and county leadership teams
  • Be available in the district to present workshops, speak at banquets and attend activities
  • Promote Reading Literacy as a 4-H project which provides a service to others and develops personal leadership skills
  • Encourage young people to become members of 4-H who select and participate in a project area of personal interest

Team Goals

  • To learn about state projects and promote them in the district and state
  • Learn more about working with a team and how to share responsibilities
  • Attend business and committee meetings and participate in activities at the district and state levels
  • Increase my understanding of the 4-H program at the local, county, district and state levels

 

Sam Durbin SW District Representative
Canadian County

Cluster 1: Canadian, Oklahoma, Cleveland, McClain, and Grady Counties

Team Goals

  • Avoid conflict with other members of the team
  • Follow through with assigned tasks
  • Look both the pros and cons of any idea brought to the table
  • Provide appropriate comic relief to tense situations

Professional Goals

  • Be on time to meetings/events and activities and turn assignments in on time
  • Contribute creative ideas when planning and conducting 4-H activities
  • Stay in touch with the counties in my cluster and district
  • Prepare and present an outstanding leadership workshop

Team Goals

  • Avoid conflict with other members of the team
  • Follow through with assigned tasks
  • Look both the pros and cons of any idea brought to the table
  • Provide appropriate comic relief to tense situations

Keynote: The Simplest Exercise

In this interactive keynote, 4-H members will learn the importance of smiling and how this "strenuous" workout can make someone's day. This will also help them realize that smiling is crucial to performing workshops, speeches and project work. They will receive examples of how to relate the four “H's” to smiling and learn simple ways such as jokes that will help them to teach others and themselves to become, well, happy!

 

Workshop: LOL: Getting Laughter Outta' Leadership
Here you will learn the importance of humor while in a leadership position. We explore the four laughing styles and absorb the fact that each one affects the people surrounding them. We will learn how laughter changes relationships between friends and how to give good compliments and the appropriates times for sharing the compliment.

 

Aerial Smith SW District Representative
Cleveland County

Cluster 3 : Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, and Garvin Counties

Personal Goals

  • Have a positive impact on the 4-H members I meet in my cluster and district
  • Perfect my time management skills
  • Improve my public speaking skills
  • Create better relationships with those that I work with and serve

Professional Goals

  • Maintain a positive relationship by being an effective communication link between the state 4-H program and the counties in my cluster and district
  • Make 4-H more visible in my cluster and district
  • Be a reliable member of the state council

Team Goals

  • Recognize the needs and abilities of all team members
  • Leave a positive mark on the Oklahoma 4-H organization
  • Start and finish my term with a positive environment between members

Keynote: Every Choice

We are all faced with decisions and opportunities.

Through this keynote 4-H members will learn how choices affect others! Each day we effect others more than we could ever realize and in this keynote we explore what it means to make “choices.”

Workshop: Communication: Designed To Engage

Through this interactive workshop 4-H members will learn the skills necessary to be a good communicator in a fun and exciting environment. Using tools like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and 2x4 wood planks we can all learn a lot about communication.

 

William Kime SW District Representative
Jackson County

Cluster 2: Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman, and Kiowa Counties

Personal Goals

  • Improve speaking skills
  • Be an involved 4-H member at the local, county and district member
  • Develop my leadership skills
  • Develop friendships
  • Learn to put prepare and present a good presentation
  • Time management - practice budgeting my time wisely
  • Meet deadlines

Professional Goals

  • Be a good leader for youth and volunteers in my district
  • Make the 4-H program more recognized within my cluster and district
  • Develop an e-scrap book for my cluster and district
  • Encourage 4-H members in the SW district to develop their leadership skills and run for office

Team Goals

  • Be informed and prepared when making presentations within my cluster
  • Learn to work with others as an effective member of the team
  • Meet team goals and project deadlines

 

Taler Sawatzky SW District Representative
Custer County

Cluster 4 : Roger Mills, Beckham, Custer, Washita, and Caddo Counties

Personal Goals

  • Be available to 4-H members in cluster and district
  • Improve time management skills
  • Complete projects on time and with 100% of my effort
  • Maintain a strong relationship with members in my local club and county program

Professional Goals

  • Always project a positive 4-H image in all that I do
  • To work with council members, district officer and 4-H members to achieve goals
  • To be an active and responsible team member
  • To become a better presenter/speaker

Team Goals

  • Complete team service projects within my cluster
  • Develop a good working relationship with all team members, advisors, and staff
  • To recognize when to be a leader and when to be a follower as we work on projects
  • Be open to the ideas of fellow officers, and council members

 

Julie Bragg SW At-Large District Representative
Cleveland County

Personal Goals

  • To become more self confident
  • Speak up my ideas
  • Smile
  • Make my representative duties a priority

Professional Goals

  • Be a great role model for younger 4-H'ers
  • Continue to develop organizational skills
  • Practice good time management by being on time
  • To make the best better

Team Goals

  • Great teamwork
  • Support team members
  • Get our work done by deadlines
  • Love what we do

 

 

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