4-H Tip Sheet
June 2004

Items of Interest:

DISCOVERY DAYS 2004 - We are truly excited that nearly 530 teens and adults will soon be arriving on campus to "Discover Their 4-H Spirit" during Discovery Days 2004. Many new program components have been added to the conference this year and the Discovery Days Action Team deserves accolades for their visionary approach to responding to the voices heard at the 2003 Discovery Days Caucus.

Packets were mailed on May 18th to Extension Offices containing a cover letter, delegate information (housing assignment, class assignments or adult assignments), a sample Personal Schedule, and an updated Discovery Days schedule. This information can also be downloaded from the intranet website: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/DDays/2004/DiscoveryDays.htm

We appreciate your efforts in providing an in depth orientation for your delegates prior to Discovery Days. With a positive 4-H spirit and 100% involvement of delegates in all program components, this conference has the potential of being a highlight of their 4-H year! McNally

Camp Counselor Recognition Program - Thanks to the continued financial support of Kansas Farm Bureau, the revised Camp Counselor Recognition Program has been extended through 2004 on a pilot basis. The emphasis will be placed on local recognition of camp counselors at either the local 4-H Achievement Program and/or the Annual Farm Bureau Meeting. This will provide a unique opportunity for Extension Staff and the 4-H program to build and strengthen the partnership with the local Farm Bureau organization.

Details for the 2004 Counselor Recognition Program will be sent directly to Extension Offices by May 24th. As announced at the 2003 Fall Updates, the Distinguished Camp Counselor Program (i.e., jackets) has been eliminated.  

Camping Groups can and should recognize their camp counselors at some time during 4-H camp --- using whatever ideas, techniques, and strategies they wish. Specially designed certificates will be made available for counties and districts to present to the counselors at the respective functions held later this fall.

IMPORTANT: This is a pilot project and continued support of the recognition program will be based upon the response by counties/districts to engage local Farm Bureau representatives at the respective achievement programs and meetings this fall. McNally

The newly elected Collegiate 4-H officers are: 

Kelly Grant-President
Corey Fortin-Vice President
Kati Neil-Secretary
Rachel Roberts-Treasurer
Heather Baumberger-Public Relations Chair
Gayla Eubank- Officers Training Coord.
Jay St. Clair - Club Days Coord.
Melinda Tebow-Ag Council Rep.
Historians: Angela Sharp and Melissa Ebert
Advisor: Sharon Dobesh
Dobesh

Kansas State Fair Letter--All counties should have received a letter dated May 1, 2004 from the State Fair! This multi-page, multi-colored letter contains VALUABLE information about:

* Gate Admissions
* Parking Hangtags and costs
* Encampment Reservations
* Grand Drive Changes
* 4-H/FFA Livestock Entry Form
* Agricultural Challenge of Champions
* Hay Bale Decorating Contest

Most of this information is also on the State Fair website( www.kansasstatefair.com). This is the only mailing you will receive with this information, so save it or request it from the State Fair if you did not receive it!!!

Please order what your county needs!! The 4-H Department will only provide Gate Admission tickets to those volunteers and Agents who are reported on the volunteer form attached to the Letter you already have dated March 25th!!!! This volunteer and ticket Order Form is due to State 4-H Office by August 1, 2004!!!!

Please file these resources for later use as we do not plan to duplicate these mailings as in the past!! Adams

Updated State 4-H Youth Development Action Plans - Margaret Wheatley said, "I believe we can change the world if we  start listening to one another again." 

We did hear your needs at Spring Action Conference and are currently updating the two state 4-H Youth Development Action Plans to include those needs. 

Also the team of Area 4-H Specialists wrote a sample 4-H Youth Development Plan. We hope this will be helpful to you as you work with your 4-H PDC to develop your plans at the county / district level.  Mack

Marketing Kansas 4-H - Keep thinking Purple Cow. Summer 4-H events and activities provide a multitude of opportunities to market your 4-H program. What "flavor sample" of 4-H do you provide during these events?

Will you try to embrace Seth Godin's Purple Cow theory and share with them how truly remarkable the 4-H program is?

The Purple Cow is an internal way to think of marketing Kansas 4-H - - we are not using a "Purple Cow" in our marketing materials but want you to think how to make 4-H worth talking about, worth noticing, new and interesting in your community.

The Kansas 4-H Marketing Action Team encourages you to make 4-H "remarkable" in your community - make it the Purple Cow of youth development.

Good luck with your summer programming and let us know what your marketing needs are.  Mack

State 4-H Geology Field Trips - June 11-13, Northern or Southern Flint Hills! Registration is due by May 24th!  Headquarters for northern trip will be at the Alma High School with motels in Wamego or Manhattan. The southern trip will headquarter at Flints Hills School in Rosalia with motels in El Dorado. Registration is due by May 24, so get the form and other information from the State 4-H website and plan to attend one of these great collecting locations!!  For more information:  http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/Geology/04GeologyFieldTrips.htm
Adams

Share your pictures of 4-H events. If you have not checked out our new look on the Web, take time to do so now. http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/  Notice the changing pictures in the middle of the page under the title “This is Kansas 4-H.”

If your county has pictures you have taken at 4-H events and those pictured have signed a photo release form (MG-35 Rev), submit them to Cheryl Thomas at the State 4-H Office, 201 Umberger, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-3404. JPEG images may be submitted as attachments to cthomas@oznet.ksu.edu. Photos will not be returned and use of the submissions is not guaranteed. Thomas

"Kansas 4-H Centennial Website now on-line" - I am pleased to announce that the Kansas 4-H Centennial now has a website home with the receipt of this May Tip Sheet. Thanks to Office Professional Cheryl Thomas for working on this for the past year or more. Note also that it is still a work in progress. We will be adding an option to encourage and allow agents, leaders, members and others to send in ideas that they will be celebrating in their clubs and counties across the state. This will serve as a cafeteria of ideas that can easily be shared at the local level.

Use the following link to access this website: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/4Hhistory.htm/KSCentennialPage2.htm
Keep checking it periodically for updates, and let your 4-H families know it is now available. Fisher

District Horse Show Dates -
June 18 - South Central - Kingman
July 8 - Southeast - Yates Center
July 8 - North Central - Salina
July 8 - Southwest - Garden City
July 6 - East Central - Lawrence
July 7 - Northeast - Lawrence
July 7 - Northwest - Oakley

Because all of the general guidelines are listed in one place in the book, it is important that exhibitors read all of the rules and regulations before exhibiting. Adams

North Central Regional 4-H Volunteer Forum - Important!!! Please mark this website as a great place to gather information pertaining to the 2004 North Central Regional 4-H Volunteer Forum:  http://www.four-h.purdue.edu/ncrvf
The Forum takes place November 11 -14 in Indianapolis, Indiana. If you are seeking opportunities for your volunteers to receive outstanding training and exposure to new ideas that can strengthen your 4-H program, then you will want to consider recruiting some folks to attend the Regional Volunteer Forum. 

This annual gathering of 550+ volunteers from 12 states and three Canadian provinces features many workshops, informal sharing sessions, keynote speakers and lots of fun! Hard copies of the registration booklet will be shipped to each Extension Office in mid May --- but in the meantime, you can obtain up-to-date information from the website. McNally

Strengthening Nutrition Education through Experiential Learning - Strengthening Nutrition Education through Experiential Learning is finished and in a PDF file that you can download off the FNP website under news and announcements or the 4-H website under resources. This is an expansion of the Professor Popcorn, 4^th grade lessons to help youth be a more active participant in their learning.   This curriculum can be used for 4-H groups as well as FNP youth. 

http://www.humec.ksu.edu/fnp/resources/curricula/FoodPyramid.pdf  or

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/PDFfiles/strengtheningNutritionEducation.pdf 

If you have any questions, please contact me. cfink@oznet.ksu.edu Fink

Ambassador Action Team - The Kansas 4-H Ambassador Action Team is soliciting applications for the team. Application forms were included in the participant registration packages for the recent 4-H Ambassador Workshop. If your county had participants in the workshop, please remind them to consider applying to the team. 

Even if your county did not have anyone at the workshop, we would welcome applications.

Applications are on the web at the following url:

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/PDFfiles/04applactteam.pdf. 

To use this application for the Ambassador team, folks will have to write in

Ambassador team as it is not on the list of teams. Applications are due June 1, either to the State 4-H Office or directly to Rod Buchele, Extension Specialist, 4-H Youth Development, SW Area.  Buchele

State 4-H Contact Change---Due to Rod Buchele's work with the Photography Action Team, it became apparent that Rod should be the State 4-H Contact for all Photography questions and will work with the Action Team to facilitate all of the photography activities at the State Fair. Pat McNally will now be chair and coordinator of the Demonstrations and Illustrated Talks at the State Fair.  Adams

Use the following link on the 4-H Website for the order forms. Scroll to order forms and click on the appropriate form. http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/4h/subpage4HForms.htm
Hinshaw

4-H Master Calendar
April - December 2004

All educational programs and materials available without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

The information here is maintained by the State 4-H Office and Staff.  The administrative assistant contact is Kathy Zimmerman at 785-532-5800 or e-mail kzimmerm@oznet.ksu.edu