Focus on Youth
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News for OCES staff working with youth 4-H
is a community of young people across America learning
leadership,
citizenship and life skills.
http://agweb.okstate.edu/fourh
November, 2005
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Dear
Extension Educators, 4-H Youth Development:
Oklahoma was represented at
NAE4-HA in Seattle, Washington the first week of
November by about a dozen OAE4-HA members. It was a
good meeting but certainly did not top the national
meeting held in Oklahoma City in 2004. Many people
were still wearing their 2004 NAE4-HA conference
shirts!
A number of Oklahoma members
received recognition. Congratulations go to the
following:
Cathy James and Tracy Branch
– Achievement in Service Award
Karla Knoepfli & Greg Owen
– Distinguished Service Award
Charles Cox – 25 Year
Award
There are many categories of
national awards where Oklahoma 4-H Educators excel,
including:
USDA/Army 4-H Youth
Development Salute; Excellence in 4-H Club Support,
Educational Technology; Excellence in Teamwork,
Natural Resources/Environmental /Stewardship; J.C.
Penney 4-H Afterschool; Excellence in Teen
programming; and Annie E. Casey Family awards, to
name a few. I encourage each of you to select an
award category in which to make application next
year. Show pride in your programming efforts and
apply for these prestigious awards.
Sincerely,
Lynda Harriman
Assistant Director
4-H Youth Development
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Registration forms and information for the
Kansas City conference can be found at
This years’ conference will be held
March 8-11, 2006, at the Kansas City Airport Hilton, Kansas
City, Missouri. Registration forms and payment are due to the
State 4-H office prior to December 9, 2005. If you have
questions, please contact Tracy or Judy in the State 4-H
office.
Sponsored by Chesapeake Energy Corporation
The following is information about a new
program at the OYE. I hope that some 4-H members will seek to
win this program. It would especially be nice to have
some 4-H members win the jackets which they are planning to
present at the FFA Convention. It would be nice to see some 4-H
members recognized at the FFA Convention!
What is it? The Academic All-State
Program is a new program offered through the Oklahoma Youth
Expo and Chesapeake Energy Corporation. This program is
designed to provide leadership opportunities as well as
prospective internship possibilities to a select group of
Oklahoma Youth Expo scholarship applicants.
Who qualifies for selection? The
Academic All-State Program will consist of 16 members chosen
from the top 30 OYE scholarship applicants. Only the top 30
scholarship applicants, as determined by the OYE scholarship
judging panel, will be considered for selection. All 30
applicants selected for interviews will receive a minimum of
$2,000 OYE scholarship. Fourteen of the 16 students
chosen as members of the Academic All-State Program will each
receive a $5,000 scholarship while the top two members will
each receive a $10,000 Express Ranches Scholarship.
How will members be selected? During
the month of January, the Oklahoma Youth Expo judging panel
will interview the top 30 scholarship applicants in order to
determine the 16 students who will receive the honor of being
named to the Academic All-State Program.
What is required and what opportunities
are available? The 16 students chosen for this honor will
assist the Oklahoma Youth Expo during their freshman year in
college with promoting the OYE and its Scholarship Program.
Students will be involved in public speaking and public
relations opportunities and the Advanced College 101 Program.
Members of the Academic All-State Program will also have
the unique opportunity to closely experience Oklahoma’s
Legislative Process and will have their registration fees
covered for their attendance to the Agriculture Future of
America Leadership Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri.
Finally, those selected for this honor will be presented
with an All-State leather jacket, provided by the sponsorship
of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, during a general session of
the Oklahoma State FFA Convention.
We would like invite you to check out the
new 4-H website. We have kept the same information with a brand
new look. You may notice we have tried to reorganize and
streamline the site for your convenience.
However, the old web address will still
take you to the same place.
If you find any mistakes we have made in
this transition, please let us know.
Congratulations to Alan Vandeventer on
receiving this grant for Oklahoma. Thanks also for his
contributions and leadership for other staff with military
installations.
CSREES National 4-H Headquarters, U. S.
Army Child and Youth Services (CYS), and U. S. Air Force Family
Member Programs (FMP) continue their commitment to provide
military youth around the world the opportunity to experience
4-H clubs. Military 4-H Grants provide funding through State
4-H Military Liaisons, to counties for establishing 4-H clubs
on military installations and for integrating these clubs with
4-H programs. This funding also provides 4-H opportunities to
youth of National Guard and Reserve members who are more
geographically dispersed.
4-H Headquarters, Army CYS, and Air Force
FMP have collaboratively provided more than $2 million over 3
years to support 4-H clubs in 31 states and U.S. Territories.
While the Army and Air Force have made the commitment to cover
all curriculum and registration costs for their youth in 4-H
programs, this grant funding is used for staff, enrollment
materials, 4-H programs, 4-H media, newsletters, travel for
state and county staff to installations, and training for
military 4-H leaders.
The states and territory receiving grants
in 2006 include:
Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas,
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, and
Washington.
Due to a problem with the tag
manufacturer, the deadline for sheep and goat nominations has
been extended. All sheep and goat nominations must be
postmarked on or before Monday, December12, 2005. Sheep and
Goat Nomination Kits are to be requested on or before December
1, 2005.
Please review the Oklahoma Youth Expo
scholarship Web-page. This page has been updated to reflect new
scholarship opportunities as well as a change in the deadline
of the Grand River Dam Authority Scholarship. All Scholarships,
with the exception of the Harley Custer Memorial Scholarship,
must be postmarked on or before December 15, 2005.
If you have any questions or concerns
regarding the information above, please feel free contact Show
Manager Melissa Eisenhauer, (405) 235-0404.
No. 149—Judging Rangeland for
Livestock and Wildlife Values Manual (slt. update) is now available to order. This
manual is $2 ea. shipped to Oklahoma county Extension offices.
No. 510—Small Animals
“Cats” Manual (no
charge) provides excellent information on background,
breeds, training, food, health care, and suggestions for
leadership/citizenship activities in a 4-H cat project.
No. 545—Breeds of Swine 4-H Quiz Gram
FS (no charge) is available to
order and is a good learning tool to help 4-Hers to learn
various swine breeds. This fact sheet will also be available on
the website.
No. 541—Horse Quiz Gram FS is also available to order and can be
printed from the 4-H website “Literature
Online.”
Wood Working Fact Sheets are now on Literature Online. The fact sheets inform how to make wood block
bookends, hot pad holder, bird houses, doghouse bookends,
fishing rod holder, making a spice shelf, building a dog house,
and gun cabinet.
No. 696—4-H Shooting Sports Education
Project Manual ($1.25 ea.) is
available. These shelved manuals are ordered from Indiana Coop
Ext 4-H and used by counties in Oklahoma per county request.
This manual provides additional information for the growing 4-H
Shooting Sports Program.