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A new document, the Guiding Principles for 4-H Youth Development, is now up on the 4-H website on the staff side at:
http://nys4h-staff.cce.cornell.edu/documents/GuidingprinciplesFinal_000.pdf
The Guiding Principles was developed as an internal planning document for use by staff and others involved in program development, such as committees and advisory groups, for CCE 4-H Youth Development programs. It is [...]

A new task force has been formed that will take a closer look at the 4-H Club delivery system in New York.  Members of the task force are by district:

Western:  Angela Northern, Bev Mancuso
Fingerlakes:  Stephen Billings, Jennifer Jensen
North Central:  Jody Maneely, Dawn Miller
South Central:  Megan Tifft, Mel Schroeder, Dinnie Sloman
Capital:  Chrys Nestle, John Bowe, Alexa [...]

“Celebrate Urban Birds” , a citizen science project from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, invites families to go outside, describe their environment, look for 16 focal bird species, and report their observations to help scientists. Beautiful posters in the free activity kits make bird identification appealing and easy and forms are provided for reporting data. [...]

There has been an unanticipated change in the Cornell Reading Project for 2008. It seems that there were some reprint problems with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, requiring a decision to change the book that will be read this summer. In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s two hundredth birthday next year, the Cornell Ready Project [...]

Are you a former 4-H’er working in pharmaceutical research, environmental science, engineering, biological or chemical science, aerospace, technology, or plant and animal science? National 4-H Council is looking for 4-H alumni to feature in an upcoming promotion. Take a moment to fill out a short 10-minute survey! Click here or visit www.fourhcouncil.edu to access the [...]

Sophie Huntington, Outreach Coordinator for the Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell Educational Resources for International Studies (CERIS) has asked that we share info about their upcoming Global Climate Change Workshops with local teachers and youth educators. For detailed information and to register see http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/calendar/index.asp?id=9678
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We’ve been advised that the Focus Program – Birds, Technology and the Arts was not on the on-line registration.  That has been fixed.  All should be well!  Thanks so much for helping to make this an awesome program.  Please do let me know if you have questions (or find glitches).  Please register your kids by [...]

Soon to be arriving in your mail box is the new Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences poster and the latest college
catalogue. A large number of 4-H youth apply to CALS each year to continue their education in Agricultural, Environmental and Nutritional
studies. These tools plant the seed and help youth access Cornell University [...]

Have you trained volunteers or 4-H members using the sample presentation video links? Are you using the Evaluation Forms for all five categories of presentations? Does the Evaluator’s Guide with state event guidelines help train Evaluator’s for your district event? All of these are currently posted on the Public Presentation State 4-H Staff website at: [...]

As you know, the NYS 4-H Public Presentation Event will be held on October 4, 2008 in Morrison Hall on the Cornell campus. We are in the midst of finalizing a new contract to continue working with the wonderful Dianne Walter, our NYS 4-H Public Presentation Coordinator.  Our new contract will focus Dianne’s energy on [...]