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Nationally, many colleges and universities have Collegiate 4-H clubs. In New York State, Cornell Collegiate 4-H is currently the only active club yet we are looking forward to the others who are working on forming new groups soon. The National Collegiate 4-H website tells us, “Collegiate 4-H is an organization that provides its members with [...]

Any Extension staff working with after-school programs are welcome to subscribe to the CCE  4-H Afterschool List Serve by emailing:  .
To write to the list, write to:  cce-afterschool-l@cornell.edu .
Any problems contact Adam Davis or Kim Fleming. Please join us and share your successes!
Participants in “Nurturing 4-H Afterschool Inservice” at Cornell back in March have been added [...]

Warm Welcomes
Please send news of new 4-H Youth Development Colleagues or other notable news to Kim Fleming at kff2@cornell.edu – or we will make it up! This helps keep us all informed and may inspire secret treasures to be shared (mostly with new staff).
Welcome to Susan Carver the new Extension Community Educator in Youth Development [...]

Hey there!
Just wanted to check in to see how everyone is doing with the Give Change, Make Change for youth campaign.  Everyone should have received their change cans (let Adam, afd7@cornell.edu know if you did not).
We have been continuing to work on and add success stories as time allows, and hope to just keep growing [...]

Do you ever have kids interested in cool sci tech projects, but are lacking adult leaders to teach them?  There are certain topics that seem prone to that problem.Â
A solution may be right under our nose.
We have some youth very skilled in demonstrations, and others who like technology.  Put it all together –  and you’ll [...]

By now you must have seen the Career Ex video spotlight on Rensselaer Co’s team of active youth (way to go Rensselaer!).   The activities and discussion that surrounding the pedometer activity at Career Ex were a hit.Â
As a result, 4-H Youth Development will be spotlighting healthy choices at the State Fair this year with our [...]

We need at least one more nomination to honor a volunteer each of the 12 days of the Fair. We’ll make decisions as soon as we have 12 worthy nominations. Thanks to you eleven who found time to write to honor your outstanding volunteer. As always, they are very impressive. Nominate your outstanding volunteer on-line [...]

Some of you are active in Facebook, and for the rest of you — you just may want to check it out.  Facebook is a social networking site…that believe it or not, our National 4-H Leader – Dr. Cathann Kress makes time to dabble in.  4-H has a growing presence in Facebook – a few [...]

Registration materials for the 2007 4-H Public Presentation Statewide Event are posted at: http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/program/events/publicpresentations.php
The County Registration Form and the Individual Registration Form are on-line. The process is similar to last year with each county encouraged to register three presenters in at least two different categories and two alternate presenters in any category. Charge per participant will be $15- [...]

Recently we completed the Why 4-H? Series and posted them to the web. Visiting the Cortland County Fair in the 4-H building it made my day to see these pieces printed out and available for all to see. They are featured on the front page of State 4-H Website or here:
Why 4-H Camps?Â
Why 4-H Fairs?
Why [...]