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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 04 - Issue 11 IN THIS ISSUE 4-H All Star Select State Officers And Service
Theme UPCOMING EVENTS March 18-27
March 27
March 28-31
March 30
April 20-22
May 1
May 1
May 5-7
May 4-5
May 6-7
May 13-16
May 14-15
May 18
May 18
May 20
May 20
May 25-26
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ Online version of Ideas: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas04/ Ideas index: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas04/04-index.htm 4-H ALL STARS SELECT STATE OFFICERS AND SERVICE THEME On March 5-6, 58 youth, volunteers, and Extension staff gathered in Cookeville for the annual 4-H All Star High Council meeting. Four members of the Tennessee Youth-Adult Partnership (TYAP) training team–Alishea Ziegler, Chris Cherry, Justin Crowe, and Donna Bradley–facilitated workshops on building effective youth-adult partnerships. Alice Ann Moore, Assistant Director for 4-H Youth Development, gave a 4-H update. Volunteer leader Delores Johnson spoke about the history of All Stars. The youth and adult members of High Council met as district groups and in committees to make recommendations on the future of All Stars. New state officers were elected and installed on Saturday. The new officers are listed below. (Please note that the officer titles are in the process of being revised, and the new titles are in parentheses.)
During the business meeting, the High Council members selected the 2004 service theme: ACTIVE (Activities in the Community That Involve Volunteers Everywhere). All Star groups across the state are encouraged to conduct service projects in line with this theme. Stay tuned for information on other exciting updates from 4-H All Star High Council. Lori Jean Mantooth 4-H ENROLLMENT UPDATE: MORE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS??? Where do I report Honor Club, All Stars, Sigma Lambda Chi?
Jill Martz 4-H SERVICE LEARNING STANDARD AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDE Watch this week’s county mail packet for two great service learning resources: An Asset Builder’s Guide to Youth Leadership and the 4-H Service Learning Standard and Best Practice Guide. The 4-H Service Learning Standard and Best Practice Guide grew out of the first three years of Tennessee’s service learning initiative. It outlines the critical components of a service learning project and highlights successful projects (“best practices”) from across the state. Service stories include projects from Grundy, Marion, Campbell, Haywood, Cheatham, Monroe, Giles, and Sevier counties. The guide is intended to aid 4-H’ers, volunteers, and staff in sustaining service learning at the county, district, and state levels. Request extra copies of the guide from the state 4-H office or download a PDF file at www.utextension.utk.edu/4h/sos/acrobat/4-H%20Service%20Learning.pdf. Lori Jean Mantooth ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROMOTIONAL BROCHURE The promotional brochure for Junior High 4-H Academic Conference is available in a PDF format at www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/acadconf/brochure04.pdf. This is the only source for the brochure. Please print them as ended from the Web site. Steve Sutton COFFEE COUNTY IS STATE LIFESMARTS CHAMPION The Coffee County 4-H Honor Club LifeSmarts team won the Tennessee State LifeSmarts Contest Saturday, March 6, in Lebanon. Team members are Bradley Anderson, captain, P. J. Shrader, Mikenzie Brown and Dera Shelton. They are coached by Michelle Matthews, Coffee County Extension agent. The state winning team will compete in the National LifeSmarts contest in Chicago, IL, April 24-27, 2004. The Brighton High School 4-H Science Bowl Team, defending state champs, placed second in the contest. Members of that team are Courtney Nute, captain, Tiffany Parrott, Hannah Pashall and Wesley Channell. Their coach is volunteer leader Jinx Rasmussen, a teacher at Brighton High. Team members will receive $100 savings bonds for their showing. The Jackson County Smart Ladies coached by Rita LaFever and the Marion County Challengers coached by Sherry Prince placed third and fourth in the contest. Other teams that competed in the state contest included Brighton High School 4-H Gold coached by Tim Hicks, Brighton High School 4-H Green coached by June Rasmussen, Marion County 4-H and Marion County High School Annihilators coached by Vicki Lofty, Hamblen West High School INCS coached by Susan Gratz, Marion County High School Exterminators coached by Sherry Prince, Madison Clovers coached by Sharon Tubbs and Putnam County 4-H coached by Melissa Henry. The modified double-elimination contest featured 21 rounds of competition between teams. Teams were well prepared for the contest and several matches were extremely close with some ending in tie breakers. All participants received goody bags containing LifeSmarts T-shirts, items from UT Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS), UT Institute of Agriculture and Cracker Barrel Country Stores. UT FCS provided decorations and refreshments. Many volunteer leaders and Extension personnel helped to run the contest. Sponsors for the contest include Memphis Consumer Credit Association, Inc., Tennessee Consumer Finance Association, BanCorp South and Charles and Frances Darnell. Be sure to check out the LifeSmarts Web site at www.lifesmarts.org or the Tennessee LifeSmarts Web site to at www.utextension.utk.edu/fcs/lifesmarts/lifehome.htm to find out how you can participate in LifeSmarts next year. Denise Brandon ELECTRIC CAMP REGISTRATION SITE UP AND READY The 4-H Electric Camp registration site is up and ready for use. The URL is http://ext1.ag.utk.edu/4H/electricRegist.nsf. The process is similar to that used for State 4-H Congress. Simply take the information from the registration cards filled out by your 4-H’ers and enter it on the registration site. Registration and payment will be through the district offices. Your district office will share additional information regarding due dates for payment and registration completion. Registration cards are available from the forms page at www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/forms&materials/. Steve Sutton 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, you can order it from the mail room. Just ask for it by publication number. 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 ORDER 4HCCS PROJECT MATERIALS EARLY FOR BIG DISCOUNT Tennessee 4-H bought into the National 4-H Curriculum Cooperative (4HCCS) last spring. As a member state, you are able to order materials during April at a 35% discount. Orders are due by May 1. Their catalog is posted on the Tennessee 4-H Web site at www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas04/attach/2004CCSCatalog.pdf. You may also order online at www.n4hccs.org. 4HCCS was formed around 10 years ago by a coalition of state 4-H directors so that high quality, experientially based, jury reviewed curricula could be developed nationwide and kept at a low cost. There are a wide range of animal science, family and consumer science, and broad category curricula available. They include three levels of difficultly and a leader guide. Tennessee currently has three individuals serving on 4HCCS design teams. Nelle Wyatt of the UT College of Veterinary Medicine and Rebecca Gold, Moore County 4-H member are serving on the dog review design team. Melissa Henry, Extension agent in Putnam County is a member of the cat review design team. Steve Sutton RECEIVE UP TO $1000 FOR A SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL
YOUTH SERVICE DAY PROJECT Youth Service America and Youth Venture are teaming up for the first time to help make every day National Youth Service Day! In conjunction with NYSD, April 16th-18th, they’re offering grants to enable young people to engage in community service and make a difference in their world. YSA Youth Venturers are young people who identify a need in their school or community and dream of making a difference. With the help of a team, they develop an idea and launch their own civic-minded organizations. YSA Youth Venture teams have tutored children, helped clean up the environment, and started clubs and small businesses that serve the needs of their community. Youth Service America and Youth Venture want to give you the tools to make dreams a reality. Twenty start-up grants of up to $1000 each will be available to young people (ages 12-20) who want to create new, civic-minded organizations, clubs or businesses (“Ventures”). These Ventures must be youth-led and designed to be a lasting asset to the community. Deadline for grant applications is March 22, 2004. All applications must be sent to Youth Venture by this date. Grant winners will have access to a variety of resources from Youth Service America and Youth Venture including:
Remember, to be eligible for a YSA Youth Venture Start-Up Grant, your project must be:
To learn more about how you can participate in National Youth Service Day, visit www.YSA.org/nysd. To obtain more information about the grant, visit www.youthventure.org/ysa. Lori Jean Mantooth STATE FARM ANNOUNCES PROJECT IGNITION Car crashes are the #1 killer of our youth. State Farm wants students and teachers to get involved in helping to resolve this issue by creating a service-learning, public awareness campaign on teen driver safety. How? Project Ignition, a joint project presented by State Farm and NYLC, invites students grades 9-12 and teachers or project coordinators, to create a great new project on teen driver safety. 25 school projects will be selected to receive a $2000 grant to complete their project in the fall 2004-2005 school year. If you receive one of the 25 $2000 grants to be given to schools across the nation, you'll have time to complete your project and submit it to a national judging panel - this time for up to $5000 to travel to Long Beach, CA for the 2005 National Service Learning Conference. There, you'll present your project before a national audience and celebrity judges, and one school will receive a grant of $10,000 for best in show. It's a great opportunity, and just a click away. Visit www.sfprojectignition.com, read the rules, download the application and mail your entry by April 15, 2004. Lori Jean Mantooth THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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