Author: Leslie Cooksey

Lauren Preston attends 2018 National Youth Summit on Healthy Living

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Lauren Preston from Fairfield County just returned from a five-day experience at the 2018 National Youth Summit on Healthy Living, held at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD. Lauren played an active role and represented Ohio 4-H well.

Here are some of the things the Ohio 4-H Health Heroes did:

  • Facilitated the “Levels of Community Change” game for a group of adults and youth from 15 states who were participating in Culture of Health training sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • Met with health professionals at the Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Shared the Ohio 4-H Health Heroes “Medicine Cabinet Project” at the Summit’s opening session (attended by more than 300 people from 32 states).
  • Presented 3 sessions titled “What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet?” to a total of 73 people who were attending the Summit.
  • Created and presented an action plan for a “Healthy Living Day Camp” on the Ohio State campus to be held on October 27.
  • Toured some sites in Washington, DC, including the Air and Space Museum and the U.S. Botanic Gardens, and a night tour of 6 memorials (Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial).

If you’d like to learn more about Lauren’s experiences, please contact Leslie Cooksey at the Extension Office.

Ohio 4-H Shooting Sports Camps – Seeking Camp Counselors!

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Ohio 4-H Shooting Sports Camps are seeking camp counselors. The application is on the website here: https://ohio4h.org/families/members/events-opportunties/shooting-sports/4-h-shooting-ed-camp and is due to Christy Clary (contact info below) by March 15th, 2018.

They are looking for great camp counselors. Shooting Sports experience is not required!

Junior Shooting Sports Camp is June 28-July 1st (campers arrive on the 29th) at Canter’s Cave. Youth must be at least 14 years old as of January 1, 2018. Youth must complete all required training. If a youth is not a counselor in their own county but interested, they do have a training opportunity April 20-22nd at the adult instructor workshop. If youth are a counselor in their own county, they do need to fill out an application but will not be required to attend any additional training.

Senior Shooting Sports Camp is July 7th-13th (campers arrive on the 8th) at Canter’s Cave. Counselors must be at least 18 as of January 1, 2018 and not attending SS camp as a camper. This is a great way to keep young alumni who have recently aged out involved! For alumni, a great system has been to have them go through volunteer screening in the county. Training is available April 20-22nd for these individuals also.

Christy D. Clary
County Extension Director
Extension Educator, 4-H Youth Development
College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences OSU Extension Brown County
325 W. State Street, Bldg. B, Georgetown, OH 45121
937-378-6716 Office / 937-378-6646 Fax
clary.42@osu.edu brown.osu.edu

Ohio State Fair Scholarship Info – due April 1, 2018

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Ohio State Fair Applications will be available soon! The applicant must be a high school junior or senior, or a graduate continuing their education at an accredited institution. They must reside in the State of Ohio, and must have been both eligible to be a participant in the Junior Fair (not older than 19 years of age as of January 1, 2018) and must have served as an active participant in both the Ohio State Fair Junior Division and their local County Fair. (This scholarship is not just for livestock exhibitors! Think about all those miscellaneous projects that have been taken!).

Attached is the Ohio State Fair Scholarship information: rules, scholarships available, and application: OSF Scholarship Rules and Application. There will also be an online application; however the website has not been updated with the 2018 scholarship information as of this email. Once it is, the website to find this info is https://ohiostatefair.com/scholarships/.

All applications must be postmarked by April 1, or completed online by that date.

For questions, please contact Stacey French at S.French@expo.ohio.gov.

Ohio 4-H Night with the Columbus Blue Jackets!

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Ohio 4-H will be partnering with the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday, March 22nd, 2018. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the puck drops at 7:00 p.m. Tickets start at $38 in the upper bowl and $65 in the lower bowl and for every ticket purchased, $10-$20 will be donated back to the Ohio 4-H Foundation to be used for 4-H Scholarships!

For more information, please review the informational flyer! What a great idea for a club social all while supporting Ohio 4-H! So many Fairfield County 4-H members have benefited from Ohio 4-H Foundation scholarships – let’s keep that going!

Ohio FFA Foundation Scholarships due March 13, 2018

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This year the Ohio FFA Foundation is awarding more than $27,000 in scholarships to current FFA members through three different scholarship funds. One application for three scholarship opportunities!

  • Ohio State Fair Scholarship: Participation in the Ohio State Fair during the summer is required. This includes livestock showing and/or judging, sanctioned 4-H/FFA project judging, and participating in the livestock skillathon. Be prepared to list in detail how you have participated at the Ohio State Fair including areas of participation and year.
  • Growing America’s Farmer Scholarship: Recipient must be going into production agriculture. Planning to “go farm”.
  • HBPA Scholarship: This year, $25,000 in scholarships will be awarded through the Ohio FFA HBPA Scholarship program. Twenty-five (25) $1,000 scholarships will be awarded.

The application includes three essay questions (500 word maximum for each). Please have your essay responses prepared in another document to copy into the application as you cannot save your work and return later.

Applications are due March 13, 2018 and winners will be notified by April 20, 2018.

Click here to apply and to see the questions and other eligibility requirements.

Remember only one application is needed per student. When completing the application, you can select which scholarships you would like to apply for.

Questions can be directed to the Ohio FFA Foundation office at kmann@ohioffa.org.

Delta Theta Sigma College Scholarship Application – due March 20, 2018

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The alumni and active members of Delta Theta Sigma fraternity on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University are proud to offer scholarships for incoming male freshmen students fall semester regardless of major. Over $10,000 will be offered in this program. Delta Theta Sigma is a professional agricultural fraternity. For more information and to fill out an application go to http://dtsalpha.com. Deadline is March 20, 2018.

Like taking pictures? Submit photos for Teen Leadership Council’s Calendar Fundraiser!

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The Ohio State 4-H Teen Leadership Council is interested in doing a fundraising project that would consist of making custom calendars to sell within the state. In order to do so, we are asking for counties to submit pictures from their county 4-H programs.

Submissions can be made by 4-H staff and volunteers. If the county would like to include their members, they are welcome to do that as well. If any faces of 4-H members or volunteers are recognizable in the submitted photos, please ensure that these individuals have a photo release from your county enrollment records.

If you find a photo that you would like to submit, please email it to Allyson McCurdy at mccurdy.98@buckeyemail.osu.edu by March 1st. Please put the subject as “TLC calendar photos.”

Depending on the amount of the pictures we receive, each month will have an individual photo or a collage of many photos. These calendars would be sold throughout the state by TLC members at various events and hopefully in the individual counties. Thank you for considering participation in this fundraising effort!

Sincerely,

Ohio 4-H Teen Leadership Council, Fundraising Committee

State 4-H Leadership Camp Staff Applications – Now Available!

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2018 State 4-H Leadership Camp Staff Applications are now available!! Interested individuals can view a letter with more information at: http://www.ohio4h.org/camp/leadership-camp titled “2018 Potential Leadership Camp Counselor/Staff Information and Application”. A link to the application is included in the letter.

Please forward this information along to anyone who you think might be interested!  Applications are due no later than April 20, 2018. If you have questions, please let me know!!

Here are some highlights about the opportunity:

  • Individuals 18+ prior to June 1, 2018 who are good leaders, past counselors, or interested in helping may apply
  • Must complete application, undergo selection, and attain background check
  • Applications due: April 20 (due to earlier camp dates)
  • Interviews: Week of April 30th
  • Staff Training Weekend (Camp Ohio): May 11-13, 2018.  Yes this is Mother’s Day weekend, but camp is so early this year, we needed to move training earlier so we could try to have everything ordered before camp!