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The application for the New York State 4-H Foundation Scholarships is now available on line. We have made some changes for 2007 so please take a few minutes to take a look at the scholarship website. The basic change is that we have eliminated the different scholarship categories. This has been done [...]

An updated list of Division of Nutritional Sciences Extension faculty and staff and a list of major projects in which the Extension faculty are engaged can be found in the attached documents. We hope this will help you stay in contact with DNS faculty and staff during the coming year.
DNS Extension Projects
DNS EXTENSION [...]

Starting with this program year in 4-H we are requiring that all organized 4-H Clubs in New York to be officially issued a charter. To assist you in the process we have developed a web page that will give you all the chartering information available from National Headquarters, a downloadable charter, and applications. http://nys4h-staff.cce.cornell.edu/secure/Chartering.php
Additionally, [...]

The Resource Center, the publications enterprise for Cornell Cooperative Extension has stopped selling publications. In order to keep popular materials available, there has been an ongoing effort to scan and upload publications to DSpace. One of the advantages of this system is that educators can print just the needed pages – or the entire publication. [...]

Volunteers: Our “Extension” of Community is the theme for the 2007 National Extension Conference on Volunteerism. Community is more than a physical place. Community can be a neighborhood or a group of people with a common interest or challenge. It could be Master Gardeners responding to the needs of local citizens or gardeners [...]

Thanks to the many who attended the 4-H Tractor Certification Update! Hopefully everyone planning to hold 2007 Tractor and Machinery Certification Courses is feeling up to speed. This year we do expect all Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H courses to use the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Program (NSTMOP) materials, hold the 24 hour minimum course [...]

4-H Afterschool Resources can be found in the 4-H Resource Directory at: http://www.cerp.cornell.edu/4h/ Search for “after-school�?
Check out “Yea 4-H! An after-school learning experience�? from Texas Cooperative Extension. There are two CD’s. “Yea 4-H: An after-school curriculum for Kindergarten through 2nd grade”, targets K – 2, and is designed for after-school setting, cloverbud clubs, [...]

Thanks to funding from a JC Penney and NFL Charities 4-H Afterschool grant, we are able to offer an inservice for Extension Educators involved in 4-H Afterschool programs. Save the date: March 20 – March 21st from 12 noon to 12 noon in Ithaca. A focus of the in-service will be introducing Cooperative Extension resources [...]

Ann Supa started with CCE in Broome County in July. Her responsibilities include club management, volunteer management and family and consumer science programs. Ann has many years of experience with 4-H. She grew up in the Tioga County 4-H program and has been a club leader in Tioga County for several years. [...]

Got some great pics (with photo releases)? We’d like to encourage you to add your best photos to the Statewide 4-H Photo Gallery http://gallery.cce.cornell.edu/main.php?g2_itemId=235. We now have a way for staff to submit your best photos…and – good news – it is easy!

Go to:http://gallery.cce.cornell.edu/main.php?g2_itemId=235
Click on the album that you would like to submit [...]