The New England Club Lamb and Goat Sale is planned for Saturday, May 13, 2006 at the Windsor Fair Grounds in Windsor, Maine (just east of Augusta). Educational events designed for youth interested in sheep and/or meat goat projects will take place in the morning. The sale immediately follows the educational offerings.
This will be a great place to learn something and purchase a lamb/goat for showing this show season. It is also a great opportunity for sheep or meat goat producers in your state to sell some of their best market stock to youth and others.
Visit the Web address below for more details and consignment forms:
http://newenglandclublambsale.homestead.com
The site will be updated frequently to list lambs consigned and raffle items, so please check back often.
If you have any questions regarding the sale or youth program, please contact: Wendy Reinemann, Club Lamb Sale Chair at (207) 785-2978 reinemannbw@peoplepc.com
The University of New Hampshire Dairy club will be hosting a statewide Dairy Day April 22nd, at the Fairchild Teaching and Research Center on the UNH campus. This will be an educational event geared towards members that are 13-18 years old, but all members are welcome.
Registration Form is available in the "What's New" box on the website at http://extension.unh.edu/4H/4H.htm
Dairy Day will provide a chance for leaders and club members to tour the UNH Dairy Facilities, learn about the current research that is being done at UNH, and advance your knowledge of Dairy Science. We will be running six, twenty-five minute workshops. The workshops will be run by current undergraduate and graduate students.
Workshops that will be available to participants:
Calf management How to make sure your calf has a healthy start.
Rumen health yes, you will get to put your hand inside a cows stomach!
Milking Procedures What to do and why it is important.
Life as a UNH Dairy Management Major
Judging and showmanship
Dairy Diseases
Schedule of Events
8:30 9:00 AM Registration. During this time you will be assigned a specific group that you
will travel with through the workshops.
9:00 AM Noon Participants will travel through the workshops set up around the Fairchild
Teaching and Research Center.
Noon The UNH Dairy Club will provide a BBQ lunch for all participants!
We believe that all participants of the UNH Dairy Day will take home a greater understanding of dairy science and what the UNH Dairy Management program future students. Because we are providing lunch, we do need a head count of how many people plan on attending. Please use the form on the attached page to register. Registration Deadline is April 10th.
If you have any questions regarding the UNH Dairy Day please contact The UNH Dairy Club Advisor, Dr. Peter Erickson (603)-862-1909, or myself (603)-568-1404.
Kimberley Morrill
UNH Dairy Club President
Submitted by Wendy Brock
MARCH 23, 2006
4:00PM-4:30PM
CYBERCHASE will join Sally Ride, engineering professionals, college students, parents, counselors, and educators during the Second Annual 24-hour Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering, taking place via telephone and internet conversations. The marathon begins at noon EST on March 23, 2006, and concludes at noon EST on March 24.
Parents and educators can get tips on making math fun for even the youngest students by joining CYBERCHASE Outreach staff, as they discuss how to use the Math in Science & Engineering Activity Guide to get girls excited about engineering, highlighting examples from CYBERCHASE's longstanding partnership with Girls Inc.
Dial-in: 1-866-616-1740
Conference code: 8857616696#
ABOUT THE GLOBAL MARATHON
An outgrowth of "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" and coincides with Women's History Month, the Global Marathon will provide valuable inspiration, information, and recognition for presenters and audiences interested in learning how to communicate effectively with young pre-college women, in getting insights into working with college students, and in gaining useful information for your young professional members. The marathon provides you with a real-time resource to begin discussions with teachers, parents, guidance counselors, and their daughters and students. Additionally the conversations are archived for use throughout the year. There is no charge to participate.
The marathon sessions range from presentations of very specific strategic issues to less formal conversations. Learn about the value of having a mentor or of being one. Are you a volunteer interested in working with Girl Scouts but don't know where to start? Maybe you're a college student wondering how to make the most of an internship or wondering what life is really like in the workplace. If you're a volunteer working with high school girls, maybe they'd like to talk with an engineer from The Gap, Inc.- certainly a brand name they will know - or learn how an engineering degree can be used in medicine or law. Former US astronaut Sally Ride, the first woman in space, discusses "Encouraging Girls in Engineering." JETS will lead "Building skills in spatial-visualization and other areas for success in engineering" and "Girls and math: what are the strategies for success in college math?" There are several sessions on the importance of mentors and even a discussion with a ment!
or and protιgι. College students and young professionals can learn a variety of career strategies from executive women. The audience will have the opportunity for very personal conversations with experts in outreach. They can talk with a high school guidance counselor to learn the most effective way to promote engineering. They can also learn how to work with Girl Scouts - a session especially valuable for those who do not already have scout connections - and gain insight into what middle school girls think about engineering by talking with an all-girl team from the National Engineers Week Future City Competition. Thursday evening there's an online book party for Changing the World: True Stories of Women Engineers, just released during Engineers Week 2006. This is definitely not Oprah's book club.
For those interested in conversations outside U.S. borders, we have presenters from Scotland, China, Canada, UAE, Italy and Germany. There are also sessions being conducted in Spanish.
Visit www.eweek.org for the most current topics listing and schedule. We'll talk to you soon!
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The 2006 Teen Conference Brochure is now available online!
Visit our home page at: http://extension.unh.edu/4H/4H.htm
Registrations with all forms are due to the State 4-H Office by May 9, 2006.
Members should contact their county office for County deadlines and information.
For more information, please contact Michele King at 862-2199 or by email at michele.king@unh.edu
Spring Cleaning and Reflection on Current Practice
As I gear up for the upcoming camp season, I am reviewing much of our camp practice, especially in regards to risk management. I believe the most effective part of the experiential learning cycle is to reflect on past experience and use that “new” knowledge to inform and create new behavior and or practice. There are many factors that affect the learning of our members, and these factors change over time, some become more important, some less, then cycle back to being more important. We owe it to our participants and leaders to take an active approach, to put our 4-H Motto in to organizational practice. —To make the best better--
Recently, we have had changes to our Shooting Sports program because someone reviewed our state laws and found a statute from 1973 that concerns our program but we were unaware of it. The American Red Cross and American Heart Association are changing the practice of CPR because of new information; new recommendations also strongly support greater implementation of AED programs in public locations like airports, sports facilities, and businesses. The guidelines also reinforce the importance of planned and practiced response to cardiac emergencies by lay rescuers. The American Medical Society is recommending that children have a health history and physical within one year instead of two before attending camp. The HIPPA Laws affect our electronic transmission of participant health information. These are just a few of examples of areas of intersection of new knowledge affecting our current camps programs.
I would encourage you to take a moment and review current practice in your area.
Many folks may know of, or heard, the holiday dinner story where the child asks there parent why the are having lamb and why the parent is cutting the end of the leg off the lamb before putting it in the oven. The parent does not know, it is just something that he has always done, so to get the answer the child goes to her great grand parent, and asks “Why do we cut the end of the leg off the lamb?” and the great grand parent does not remember so they both go ask great great grand mom, and she sitting in the other room thinks for a moment and says “Because, the lamb would not fit in the small pan I had.” This generational story can be applied to club practice, leader training, and our collective mental model of why we do something the way we do it.
Taking a moment, like that child in the story, and actively check in with our leaders and find out how and what they are doing this spring. What have they done recently, are they taking on any new projects in there club? Have there been any changes in leaders in the club? Who is the project leader, what experience do they have, have they lead that project in the past? Do they have a first aid Kit available? Are they going to drive the youth to the event, do they have insurance?
Just like that child I think we can learn much and inform our practice on with all of our areas by taking a moment and reviewing our practice to make the best better.
Here is a place to start: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/4H/4HVol/redurisk.pdf
The brochure listing workshops and registration form for this years Conference is up on the
4-H web site at; http://ceinfo.unh.edu/4H/4HPubs/SpcsReg.pdf
Please inform your 4-H families of this opportunity. Early bird registration is $6 per person if mailed by 3/13, $8/person after that.
National 4-H Council Request:
Are you interested in being involved with a national opportunity? At National 4-H Council, we are looking for five to ten youth to be involved in providing feedback for an online survey review process. There will be a one hour conference call within the next few weeks, in the evening at a time that fits your schedule. The purpose of the conference call is to discuss the youth focused online survey that we are putting together with a web firm called the5wits. We are still working on the details but are trying to gather interested 4-H members to be involved. If you are interested, please contact Gretchen Hilburger via email or telephone (information below) no later than Monday, March 6, 2006. We recognize this is quick and apologize for the short notice, but need your input as quickly as possible.
Thanks in advance, and I look forward to hearing from you.
~Gretchen
Gretchen A. Hilburger
Marketing Communications Coordinator
National 4-H Council
7100 Connecticut Avenue
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Phone: 301-961-2829
Fax: 301-961-2974
Email: ghilburger@fourhcouncil.edu
The 2006 Salute to Excellence application and guidelines are now
available at http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/SaluteToExcellenceProgram.aspx
Staff must submit complete nomination packets to the state office electronically by March 24th for consideration. New Hampshire will then submit one volunteer in each category.
No late entries will be allowed. Letters of support must come electronically so that the State 4-H Office can submit to National electronically.
National 4-H Council has redesigned the nomination and application process. Based on input from the system they are implementing a new regional nomination process where two volunteers will be awarded from each region; and from the eight, two national awardees will be chosen. Regional awardees will be recognized at their Regional Volunteer Leader Forums in fall 2006 and the national awardees recognized in spring 2007 at National 4-H Conference. It is our hope that this new process will attract greater participation and gain visibility for our valuable 4-H volunteers.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Audrey Adams at
aadams@fourhcouncil.edu.