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2025 Licking County 4-H Project Judging Appointment Registration

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Licking County 4-H Project Judging will take place on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at CTEC (150 Price Rd, Newark, OH 43055). All still projects (clothing, food, and special interest) will be judged on this day. Members must register for a judging appointment by 9:00am on Monday, July 7, 2025. You will need to complete a survey for each project that needs judged.

Before completing the registration, please review the list of which projects are being judged by each judge. You will need to know which judge will be judging your project before you complete the registration. You can view the list by Project Number or by Project Name. Once you know which judge number you will need for each project being judged, please complete the registration by visiting: http://go.osu.edu/licking4hjudging. Once you have completed the registration, within a few minutes you will receive an email with a summary of your response. If you do not see the email in your inbox, please check your spam/junk folder as that is where automatic responses often end up. If your child has more than one project to be judged, you will need to complete the survey for each project.

If you have more than one project, please pay attention when scheduling that you do not select the same time slot so that we avoid having members scheduled to be at two judges at the same time. We encourage you to make sure there is at least 1-2 time slots between your appointments to allow you time to leave your first judging appointment to come gather your project for your next judging appointment.

If you find that you need to change your judging appointment or you will no longer be attending judging, please reach out to Adrienne Anderson at anderson.1410@osu.edu so that we can open that appointment up for another member.

If when you go to register, all of the appointments for the judge you need are full, please reach out to Adrienne so we can add more judging appointment slots.

We look forward to seeing you at project judging!

Youth Fly Fishing Workshop

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Sponsored by Land of Legend Fly Fishers

When: Saturday, June 28th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Fackler’s Pond – 2400 Montgomery Road, Newark, Ohio 43055

Learn About:

  • Fly Casting
  • Fly Tying
  • Gyotaku Printing

Limited to 15…. Registration Required Lunch Provided

Please provide your t-shirt size

Register with: Lisa McKimmins at lisa.mckimmins@gmail.com or 614-565-8509

If a participant is younger than driving age, an adult must stay with him/her

Paid for through a generous grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Vet Exploration Day at The Ohio State Fair

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Calling all aspiring veterinarians! Join us for “Vet for a Day” with Ohio Veterinary Medical Association at the Ohio State Fair on Thursday, July 31st from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.!

This half-day experience is perfect for high school students in grades 9-12 who want to get up close and personal with the animals on display at the fair. You’ll follow a unique agenda, taking you around the fairgrounds to learn about a variety of animals and what it takes to care for them.
The program concludes with a college fair, giving you the chance to meet representatives from state institutions offering veterinary education.

It’s a fantastic opportunity to explore your future in this exciting field!

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity. Register now and kickstart your journey towards a career in veterinary medicine!

Register HERE.

Local Teens Receive State 4-H Awards

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The 2025 Ohio 4-H Achievement Awards were presented earlier this month at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus.

Local 4-H members received the following awards.

Henry Keller from Alexandria was selected to serve as an Ohio delegate at the 2025 National 4-H Dairy Conference. Keller, 17, has been a member of 4-H in Licking County for nine years. He enjoys showing dairy feeders, steers, and hogs, and he likes participating in the Steer Pool at the Hartford Fair. Keller has also volunteered as a camp counselor for three years. He is a junior at C-TEC in the electrical trades and is the son of Joe and Jennifer Osterholt.

Alexis Reimer from Newark won the Family Life and Child Development Achievement Award. Reimer, 16, has been a 4-Ever Friends 4-H Club member for nine years. She is on the Licking County Food and Fashion Board, is the president of her club, and was chosen to participate in the Ohio 4-H State Leadership Camp. Reimer is a junior at Newark High School and plans to attend college for accounting. She is the daughter of Andy and Bettrina Reimer.

Autumn Wampler from Marengo won the Goats Achievement Award. Wampler, 18, has been a 4-H member for 10 years and has taken a variety of projects including goats, lambs, cattle, rabbits, poultry, and self-determined projects. She is also a four-year member of the Hartford Independent Fair Board and is currently serving as a Junior Advisor. Wampler is a graduated, homeschooled student and is the daughter of Adam and Jennifer Wampler.

Ohio 4-H Achievement Awards are presented annually to individuals for outstanding work in their project area. Youth recipients will also have the opportunity to travel to Atlanta in November to represent Ohio at National 4-H Congress. The evening was hosted by the Ohio 4-H Foundation, with 32 youth receiving 2025 honors

Ohio 4-H is the youth development program of Ohio State University Extension, the outreach arm of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. In 2024, over 154,000 Ohio youth participated in clubs, groups, and special interest programs.

LAST CHANCE: 2025 Animal Adventures Program

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Animal Adventures is part of a statewide, 4-H initiative to connect young people with disabilities, who also have a love for animals, with opportunities to get involved with local 4-H programs. Through Animal Adventures, participants with disabilities will be paired with 4 H and FFA mentors to learn about an animal of their choice. After a meet and greet, they will work together to exhibit or “show” the animal at the 2025 Hartford Independent Fair. The show will be held at 6:30 p m on Sunday, August 3rd at the B Carr Pavillion on the Hartford Fairgrounds. Animal Adventures welcomes youth between the ages of 8 and 19. Participants do not have to be supported by the Licking County Board of Developmental Disabilities, but must reside within the Hartford Fair District: Licking County, Knox County (Hilliar, Milford, Miller Townships), or Delaware County (Berkshire, Harlem, Porter, Trenton Townships).

EXHIBITOR (youth ages 8-19)
•Complete registration by June 20th at https://go.osu.edu/AdventureExhibitor

MENTOR (Junior Fair Exhibitor Dairy Feeder / Dairy Heifer / Goat / Poultry / Rabbit / Sheep
•Complete registration by June 20th at https://go.osu.edu/AdventureMentor

ADULT VOLUNTEER
•Email Lisa McCutcheon (mccutcheon.46@osu.edu) to be placed on a contact list!

Volunteers Needed For Ohio State Fair Skillathons

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Volunteers are still needed to serve as Ohio State Fair Skillathon facilitators! You will work with youth to facilitate a skillathon station. Entry passes, snacks, and meal tickets will be provided for anyone who volunteers. Please visit the link to register: https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8uCgoIHKovT0NOm

REMINDER: FairEntry Help Sessions

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We will be offering three help sessions for those who may want/need help with making entries. Two help sessions will be held at the Hartford Fairgrounds in the Junior Fair Board Office and one will be held at the Licking County Extension Office in Newark. If you plan to come to one of the help sessions, please be prepared with list of items on the flyer HERE or listed below.

REMINDER: 2025 Hartford Fair Entry Information

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All Hartford Fair entries must be completed through the FairEntry portal again this year. The portal will open on Sunday, May 25, 2025. Please follow the Hartford Fair Entry Instructions when making your entries. Entry deadline is Friday, June 27, 2025.

Please note:

  • The Hartford Fair Entry Portal can be found by visiting: http://hartfordfair.fairentry.com
  • Please be sure to review the Hartford Fair Premium Book to ensure you know which Classes and Lots you will be making entries for before you start that process.
  • All 4-H families must use their 4-HOnline Credentials (email and password) to log into FairEntry. If a member creates a new account in FairEntry, they will be unable to make entries in Junior Fair Departments as those departments require them to be enrolled in the appropriate 4-H project in order to make entries.
  • All FFA members making entries in livestock departments will submit their own entries. Those entering projects in the FFA Building will do so through their advisor.
  • Please make sure that you add all entries to each exhibitor in your family before you submit the entries and continue to the payment portal.
  • REMINDER: All youth planning to participate in Showmanship MUST make an entry for their Showmanship class. Even if a member isn’t sure about whether they want to do Showmanship or not, they should go ahead and make an entry for it.

Photo IDs

NEW THIS YEAR: Members will upload their photo for their Fair ID as part of their entry process in FairEntry. There will be a question early in the process that will ask you to upload a photo. PLEASE NOTE: the system does NOT require you to upload the photo (which means you can accidentally skip this step). We had to make it optional, otherwise it would require it for everyone making entries, including those making just Open Department entries who don’t receive Fair IDs. If you skip this step and do not upload a photo, you will not have a Fair ID. Also, photos for IDs must be uploaded into FairEntry by the deadline of June 27th. All photos will be pulled from the entries at this point and sent for printing so that we have the IDs back to us in time to pass them out in the days leading up to fair. Late photos will not be accepted.

Your photo for your Fair ID must be either a jpeg or png file. The photo should be of the member’s head and shoulders with a light colored, neutral background. Exhibitors should not be wearing hats, sunglasses or bandanas in their photo. Please see examples of photos that don’t meet the criteria and one that does:

Glitches and Issues

As we’ve discovered recently, FairEntry does occasionally have glitches that can occur. If you run into issues please reach out to Adrienne at anderson.1410@osu.edu. Sending screenshots of the error you are receiving can be very helpful in figuring out what is going wrong. Please do NOT wait until the last minute to complete your entries as that gives us less time to help you solve the issue. PLEASE NOTE: Lisa and Adrienne will be at 4-H Camp June 17-21 at 4-H Camp Ohio. Please realize that we have limited access to emails during this time and will not be able to respond quickly in most cases.

FairEntry Help Sessions

We will be offering three help sessions for those who may want/need help with making entries. Two help sessions will be held at the Hartford Fairgrounds in the Junior Fair Board Office and one will be held at the Licking County Extension Office in Newark. If you plan to come to one of the help sessions, please be prepared with list of items on the flyer HERE or listed below.