e4hconnect

4-H youth often enjoy presenting, technology, talking with people, directing projects, video-editing, and developing their own projects.  So, we are asking 4-H kids across NYS to create media projects that can be shared via the web.  Information about this project can be found at: http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/Media4YOUth/Howto.htm
Note that it doesn’t HAVE to be video…maybe members want to [...]

4-H Career Explorations Conference: http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/program/events/CareerEx.php What a great way to connect 4-H’ers to Cornell staff, faculty, students and campus! We have 482 participants registered. For the record…Rensselaer County has the most participants registered (37!). Please note that the registration link allows you to review your applicants…Please do check your delegate list.
This week ahead – we [...]

Cornell Reading Project: http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/Reading%20Project/CCECornellReadingProject08.php There are still 1,000 books left for distribution in this year’s Cornell Reading Project – first come – first served. Thanks for your help in creating a common community reading experience and supporting out-of-school reading time.   This is a great way to help schools feel connected to Cornell University and CCE.  [...]

 We’re looking for Educators to identify teens in their county who would be interested in being 4-H Choose Health Ambassadors.
The 4-H Choose Health Ambassador Program is the “teens take action” piece of the 4-H Choose Health initiative, Cornell Cooperative Extension’s commitment to reducing the incidence of childhood obesity.Â
Please see attached document for more in-depth details about [...]

It’s the end of April and I am finally catching up on some new colleagues who have joined us this late winter and early Spring. Many of them also attended the April New Staff Introduction and our “Giving Them Our Best” 4-H Orientation. If you don’t know these new colleagues and neighbors – read more [...]

236 teens and adults attended STARR 2008! Participants indicated that STARR was the best ever!  STARR 2008 Planning Committee is to be commended for putting together a spectacular weekend of learning, activity and fun! We had beautiful weather, cooperative and very involved teens, lots of helpful hands of adult volunteers and Extension Educators, and phenomenal workshop [...]

State Fair Premium book has not yet been printed or posted to the web.  Mary Ellen Daino is waiting on computer operations to do their job so she can post it to the web. Counties will be notified as soon as it is up and running.
Key Leader Program – click on Key Leader Program to find [...]

We received this offer here in the state office:
I was in 4-H as a child and I remember we made Booboo bears for Children’s Hospital. I currently work at the Hunter’s Hope foundation and part of our fundraising activities is selling Boyd’s Bears. In short, we have a large number of Chuck Woodbury [...]

The 2009 National Extension Volunteerism Conference (NEVC) is scheduled for  April 27 – 30, 2009. The conference will be held at the General Butler State Resort Park in Northern Kentucky, 30 minutes from the Cincinnati airport and major amenities. 

Over the past decade, Extension volunteer specialists and professionals from the nation’s Land-Grant University system have held [...]

Rochester NY, October 15-18 2008
You don’t have to be a chameleon to help transform NY 4-H. Simply propose and present a workshop, a poster, or a community service project.
Workshops: Five 1-hour workshop sessions will be offered over October 16 and 17. Select your track:

Branching Out – curriculum adaptations, new audiences and partnerships, diversity issues, extension [...]