Please find the 4-H enrollment instructions for new families and returning families for our new 4-HOnline 2.0.
4-H Enrollment Instructions: 4HOnline.v2.Family.Enrollment.Guide for Knox County
Please find the 4-H enrollment instructions for new families and returning families for our new 4-HOnline 2.0.
4-H Enrollment Instructions: 4HOnline.v2.Family.Enrollment.Guide for Knox County
Please see a few updates below that pertain to 4-H and Junior Fair:
Adding Animals to 4HOnline and FairEntry
We know that some of you and your 4-H members have been experiencing difficulties with adding animals to the 4HOnline profiles today. Because there was an issue (which is now resolved) and we do not want to cause unnecessary stress to anyone during already stressful times, we are going to allow an extension with getting animals input into 4HOnline through Monday at 12 Noon. We will then do a roll over in the system Monday afternoon to FairEntry. On Tuesday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), we are holding an in-person help session for FairEntry and work out any kinks we may see and open it to everyone on Wednesday morning. We are wanting to make this as seamless as possible and with all of the bumps in the road it unfortunately has delayed us again slightly.
Miscellaneous/Food & Nutrition/Rocket/Clothing Judging
Jana is still moving forward with a face to face judging on Wednesday, July 15 for these projects. This year there will be no displays in the booth building. But as long as members have their project judged on July 15 they will receive a premium by mail after the fair. Your members can also take a home project and take the project again next year without any penalty.
Livestock Interview Judging
This will take place on Monday, July 13 and Monday, July 20 from 1 to 6 p.m.
Thank you for your continued support and patience,
Andrea, Jana, and Samantha
Andrea has designed a help sheet to help you upload your animals into your 4HOnline profile. It gives you step by step instructions for all of the animal species exhibited at the fair.
This step is required for the following projects:
This step is highly recommended (easier for you to complete entries in June) for the following projects:
Full Help Sheet: Adding Animals to 4HOnline
Andrea has put together a short video on how to utilize the Animals/Livestock tab in your 4HOnline profile. This can be used by all animal projects that are exhibited at the fair: market and breeding. This also gives you the capability to add pictures of your animals and upload any appropriate paperwork that might be required. The information that you input in this system will roll over to the FairEntry system in June for you.
Please follow this link to watch the video:
Well today marks a week that we have been working from home and trying to balance work and home life. It has proved to have a few challenges but I am sure all of you are feeling those as well. But like we had stated early on, this does not change our focus that we are here to help you and give your our support any way we can. You are still able to call us and Sarah Chain, our newest Office Associate, will be answering the phone and directing messages to either Jana or I during our normal business hours of Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We have our computers at home and can be reached by email.
I know there are STILL so many unanswered questions. Jana and I received an update this week that we are having to cancel, postpone or switch things to a virtual status until May 15 now. That also means that as volunteers you can not have face to face club meetings/horse ride-outs until that point. We are so very sorry for this! And unfortunately, as with everything lately, that could change again. So many things are out of our control. This is a mandate from the Ohio State University Extension Administrative Cabinet. Just remember we are all in this together and all counties in Ohio are having to abide by the same mandates.
Virtual Update: Jana, Samantha, and I decided that it might be helpful if all of you had an opportunity to talk to us virtually and ask any questions that might still not be answered for you or if you need help with trying to navigate from this point forward. We are going to set up three Zoom sessions next week: Monday March 30 at 2 p.m., Tuesday, March 31 at 10 a.m., and Wednesday, April 1 at 6 p.m. You will all be sent the log-in information for those sessions on Friday afternoon.
From our State 4-H Leader, Kirk Bloir: The move to virtual meetings seems to be working for many of our families, but we recognize it doesn’t work for everyone due to accessibility issues in parts of the state. We are continuing to explore options and will share more in the next few weeks. In the meantime, there are tip sheets for club leaders with options and ideas for holding virtual club meetings at go.osu.edu/4hadvisorinfo; we will continue adding information to this site.
4-H Project Books: We will not be able to do project book distribution next week due to the “Stay at Home” order from Governor DeWine. The State 4-H Office will be sharing plans with us at the beginning of next week and how we will be able to proceed. We do ask that you continue to prepare your book orders. You can submit it by mailing the form, emailing it to us, or sticking it in the mailbox at the bottom of our steps at our office. We will ask at this point that if we can move forward with this, that no individual book orders will be taken, only club orders.
4-H Enrollment: Jana and I have decided to stick to the latest Knox County 4-H Enrollment deadline of Monday, April 27 at Midnight. Please encourage members to be working on their 4-HOnline profiles and getting that complete (we still have ~400 inactive members from last year that have not completed profiles for 2020). If they need help, have them reach out to me and I can guide them through that process. Also, that means we will accept new members until April 27 as well. Club paperwork will not be due until April 27.
Quality Assurance: Quality Assurance is still going to be a requirement for junior exhibition in 2020 per the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA). Knox County has extended the training deadline to complete this from June 1 to July 1. So here is our plan:
Hog Tags: Obviously, with the April QA sessions being cancelled, the opportunity to purchase hog tags at that time has gone away. Here is the plan to still get your hog tags and meet the appropriate deadlines:
Broiler Orders: Samantha and I talked at length yesterday and felt that it is in the best interest of everyone if we keep the established dates for Broiler Pool orders. All members who have and will still be enrolling with the Market Chicken project will get an email directly with the order form and where to send that by the May deadline.
As always, please check our blog, Facebook, and website for continual updates.
As always, please feel free to reach out to us with questions and concerns.
Update: COVID 19 Update March 26
Our 4-H colleague in Hardin County has put together YouTube videos that walk NEW and RETURNING families through enrolling for 4-H on 4HOnline. These were designed to help get members enrolled virtually. She does mention the Hardin County phone number a couple times, but other than that, the information is all pertinent.
https://youtu.be/5NU0M9bYzoo New Family Enrollment
https://youtu.be/fEiXK1vfHvU Returning Family Enrollment