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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 05 - Issue 36 IN THIS ISSUE 2006 State Radon Poster Contest UPCOMING EVENTS September 9-18
September 9-18
September 15
September 19
September 23-October 2
September 24
October 1-2
October 2-8
October 6-9
October 15
October 15
October 17
October 30-November 3
November 25-29
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas05 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas05/05-index.htm 2006 State Radon Poster Contest Information for the 2006 State Radon Poster Contest is now available for all family and consumer sciences agents and 4-H agents. Packets with the contest information will be sent by county mail to every county the week of September 19th. The contest will be held in conjunction with National Radon Action Week, October 16-22 which is a part of National Home Indoor Air Quality Action and Awareness Month. The poster contest is sponsored by the Healthy Indoor Air for America’s Homes program and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. County Extension agents are encouraged to promote this contest to different groups such as school art and computer classes, 4-H clubs and home school programs. If a county participates, the county should coordinate its own contest by October 7. Up to three winners from each category should be selected from the county contest and then sent on to the state competition by October 14. The posters will then be judged on the state level October 22. Youth, ages 9-14, will be able to compete in one of two categories: a computer-generated poster, or a non-computer generated poster. Posters are to be 11 x 17 inches on white drawing paper. The drawing can be either horizontal or vertical. Posters could be drawn in crayon, colored pencil, paints or markers. Computer-generated posters not only will be submitted in hard copy format (8.5 x 11 inches paper acceptable), but will also need to be saved electronically in .jpeg or .tif format. Posters should be the student’s original design from one of the six topic areas: 1) Radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S., 2) Test your home for radon now!, 3) Test and fix your home for radon, 4) Radon is a radioactive gas that might be in your home - test today!, 5) Radon resistant new construction protects your home and your health; and 6) For important radon information, call the National Radon Hotline at 1-800-SOS-RADON. First through third-place state winners in both categories will receive a gift card and a plaque for their state winning efforts. All participants in the contest will receive a certificate, radon test kit and some type of radon mementoes. The contest is coordinated by Martha Keel, Housing and Environmental Health Specialist, Family and Consumer Sciences, the University of Tennessee. Other partners of the event are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation-Air Pollution Control: Radon. For more information, contact Dr. Keel (mkeel@utk.edu) or Jacki German (jgerman@utk.edu) at 865- 974-8197. Martha Keel ENTRIES DUE FOR STATE FALL JUDGING EVENTS State Fall Judging Day will be Saturday, October 15 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Registration will be at 1:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Hollingsworth (Plant Science) Auditorium with the competition starting at 2:00 p.m. An awards banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. Competition will be for senior teams in dairy products judging, forestry judging, outdoor meat cookery, plant and seed identification and poultry judging. Junior high competition will not be offered on the state level. The dairy products, plant and seed identification and poultry judging contests are non-qualifying events. There is no limit as to the number of teams that may participate from a county. Participants in the forestry judging and outdoor meat cookery contests will be determined by regional events. The top four (4) forestry teams per region and the top three (3) outdoor meat cookery teams (plus any of the four specie winners if they were not a member of a regional-qualifying team) will advance to state competition. In order to prepare for the judging day, we need to know how many are coming. There is a preregistration requirement for dairy products, plant and seed identification and poultry judging teams. We must receive a COMPLETED Entry and Score Form (F615) for each team and/or individual participating. Please send this information to Steve Sutton, State 4-H Office, 2621 Morgan Circle, Room 205, Knoxville, TN 37996-4510 by October 3. Forestry and outdoor meat cookery teams will NOT have to preregister. Your regional office will submit the entry information to the state 4-H office. There is no need for regional-qualifying teams to complete an Entry and Score Form. Those will be completed for you and given to the specialists prior to the event. Your completed forms will be your reservation for the awards banquet on October 15. Cost for the meal is $8.00 per person. This includes contestants, coaches, parents and other guests. You may pay at the registration table as you arrive. Counties will need to be responsible for any meals not cancelled by October 10. Guest reservations should come in with your team’s entry form. Extension staff meals will be taken care of internally. Steve Sutton LOOKING INTO LIFE SKILLS AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES There is still time to volunteer to be a Healthy Lifestyles pilot county. If you will be conducting programming in one of the following areas or feel one of them is applicable to the youth you work with, contact Jill Martz in the state 4-H office.
More information about expectations and deadlines for pilot counties can be found in the September 2, 2005 issue of Ideas. Jill Martz LOOKING INTO LIFE SKILLS AND SUMMER CAMP The summer of 2005 was the first opportunity to test out the Life Skills Evaluation System (LSES) in the junior camp setting. Summer camp evaluations focused on citizenship (BG) and responsibility (BG). Program assistants at the four 4-H centers were asked to collect data through random surveys so your camp week or cabin may or may not have participated. It is exciting to view the results and analyze the findings. From this data we can congratulate ourselves on the areas where we did well and plan improvements where results may not have been as strong as we would like. If you look at the summaries by location you will notice little variation in the results. This suggests consistency in the curriculum and camp setting. A score of 1.00 would indicate a camper response of “definitely false” while a response of 5.00 would indicate “definitely true.” The citizenship items show that campers “weren’t sure” (a response of 3.00) about the statements and could indicate minimal focus on them or that they did not apply to the curriculum. The ten responsibility items all have a rounded mean of 4.00 or higher indicating the campers find the statements “probably true” or “definitely true” in describing themselves. From this analysis, you could share with others that the Tennessee 4-H summer camp program for grades 4-6, involving more than 5,500 youth, contributes to positive youth development by enhancing the life skill of responsibility – and leads to competencies critical for adult success. Beginning Citizenship
Beginning Responsibility
Jill Martz SRLF WORKSHOP AND FUNSHOP DETAILS RELEASED Tennessee 4-H Youth Development is pleased to announce that the workshop and funshop dates, times, locations and descriptions have been updated on the Southern Region 4-H Leaders Forum (SRLF) Web site at www.4hsrlf.org or directly at www.4hsrlf.org/index.htm. Please share this information with the entire 2005 delegation to SRLF. Please note that these assignments are tentative until the final program is printed. Several of the sessions have changed since the initial release of this information. All presenters are encouraged to review the details regarding their session and notify Patrick Hamilton of any changes at 865-974-2128 or via email at patrick@utk.edu. Patrick Hamilton THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than
the brain cell it occupied.
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