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From start to finish, the State 4-H Educators Conference in Rochester was a fantastic event!  Congratulations to the Professional Development Team under the great leadership of Bernie Wiesen and Charlotte Coffman for bringing it all together.  I was particularly impressed with the great workshops, opportunities for sharing, awards presentations, and yes even the turtle ceremony [...]

Counties will be invited to join the next cohort of counties to work with Professor Bill Trochim and his team at the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation to learn how to effectively evaluate program impact. The focus for evaluation this year will be in the area of 4-H SET. Communication about this [...]

In collaboration with the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth we are moving forward with approved funding from the National Science Foundation on a two year pilot project. The project team will develop training and educational resources for 4-H professional educators that can be used to involve students in grades 3-12 in [...]

Nominations due November 21, 2008

Volunteers are, undeniably, the “heart and soul” of 4-H, and in an age when time is at a premium, Salute to Excellence serves as an opportunity to acknowledge our volunteers’ unwavering dedication to the 4-H Youth Development movement.
Each year, state 4-H programs are invited to nominate two outstanding individual volunteers, one [...]

Please help recruit 4-H Choose Health Ambassadors to attend the 4-H Choose Health and More Volunteer Forum November 14-15, 2008. A special track is being developed to prepare teens and adult partners to offer Healthy Living curriculum to 4-H Afterschool or out-of-school programs. Stipends will be available to reduce the registration fee. Contact [...]

Thanks to your recruiting we are over 40 registrants for the statewide 4-H Choose Health and More Volunteer Forum including 15 Choose Health Ambassadors. We expect more attendees and presenters will be signed up in the next couple of days. A list of numbers registered per county will be shared via [...]

As mentioned previously, this year the CCE State 4-H Office is able to offer the $100 scholarship to each CCE Association with at least one volunteer who attended the Northeast Regional Volunteer Forum October 23-26, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Contact Kim Fleming at kff2@cornell.edu  by Friday, November 14th to confirm names and [...]

A toast to Charlotte Coffman and Bernadine Wiesen, co-chairs of the State 4-H Trans4mations Conference and the NYSACCE4-HE Professional Development Committee!  The Planning Committee, under this leadership, pulled together to provide great workshops, wonderful networking and recognition of colleagues, and fine promotion and idea gathering for the 2009 National Association of Extension 4-H [...]

Saturday, October 4th was a good rainy day to be inside for the statewide 4-H Public Presentation event at Cornell. Ninety presenters were registered with 35 counties represented.  Many thanks to all staff registering and preparing youth to attend. Special thanks to Educators and adult and teen volunteers who help the event run [...]

What a pleasure to host a group of new staff with 4-H Youth Development responsibilities on October 22-23, 2008 on campus. In September, you read about most of them. Here’s the October list with the rest of them. Read more about them on this blog and get them involved. I appreciate and welcome [...]