North Dakota 4-H - ShopTalk – January 2013
ShopTalk
January 2013 No. 437
CONTENTS
4-H ONLINE
- 4honline Webinar
- Literature Request Orders and Event Checks Due
AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
- Ambassador Selections
2013 Extension Youth Conference
CITIZENSHIP IN ACTION
- Citizenship in Action 2013
CURRICULUM
- Project Sheets
- Livestock Record Forms
EDUCATIONAL TRUNKS
- Nutrition and Wellness Trunks
- Reading Makes Cents Trunk
JUDGING UPDATES
- Winter judging dates
- Crop judging
- Meats Judging Contest Proposal
- State Crop Show
MISCELLANEOUS
- North Dakota 4-H is now on Facebook!
- nd4hnews.ning.com
- Junior Master Gardener Program
- 2013 Beekeeping Essay Contest Announced
- North Dakota Winter Show Scholarships
- Help Solve Hunger in your Community!
- Join the ND Action Team for Invest an Acre
NORTH DAKOTA 4-H FOUNDATION, INC.
- PLEDGE YOUR HEART TO 4-H: GIVING HEARTS DAY 2013!
- 2013 Raffle is underway! Who will be the lucky winner of the Case IH Scout this year?????
OUTDOOR SKILLS/NATURAL RESOURCE EDUCATION
- Annual Shooting Sports Meeting
- New District Tournaments Indoor Archery 300
- Volunteer Training
- Air Rifle Standing 60 shot
- Upcoming Trainings
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- 4-H Youth Development Professional Development/Curriculum Committees
SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- 2013 North Dakota 4-H Film Festival
- 2013 4-H Aerospace Event
WESTERN 4-H CAMP
- 2013 Western 4-H Camp Schedule
4HONLINE
Dean Aakre, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
701.231.8595
4honline Webinar
Will hold another 4honline webinar - Wednesday, December 19 at 11:00 a.m. central time – repeat of beginning 4honline
I will train smaller groups on specific topics using webinar. Contact me to set up training.
Literature Request Orders and Event Checks Due
There have been a few questions regarding the Items to Order/Pay section of 4honline found on your home screen. This area is for your information only.
After checking to make sure you have ordered the Literature and/or made sure your registrants have made their payments you will need to clear the data. It does not clear on its own.
For Literature orders – Click on the Literature Requests to Order. Select a club from the drop down box provided. Check the box next to the order then click Save Order.
For Event Checks due – Click on Event Checks Due. Click Create select the payment then click Save. It will take you to a Transfers screen where you will click on Submit. A warning window will pop up asking if you really want to submit, click yes.
AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Sharon Query, 4-H Youth Specialist
701.231.5923
Ambassador Selections
The North Dakota 4-H Ambassadors will be holding Selections on January 12th in the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan. If you have any young people who are qualified to apply to be a 4-H Ambassador, please encourage them to do so. They must be between the age of 16 and 22 by January 12 and be interested in making a commitment to the 4-H program. The fillable application is located on the Center for 4-H Youth Development website. They must complete the application and have three references, one being from a County Extension Staff. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at or 701.231.5923. Applications are due December 15, 2012 to the Center for 4-H Youth Development.
2013 Extension Youth Conference
EYC 2013 will be held June 17 – 20 on the NDSU campus – start recruiting!! Watch for PR and registration information to help spread the word to young people in your county.
CITIZENSHIP IN ACTION
Karla Meikle, Morton County Extension Agent
701.667.3340
Citizenship in Action 2013
Join us at the 5th Annual Citizenship in Action Event February 17th & 18th, 2013. Sunday’s events will include the electoral process, running for office and opportunities to network with other youth from around North Dakota. Monday’s events will focus on how the state legislative process works and give you a chance to mingle with representatives and senators from your district.
The cost for the event is $55.00. The event will start with registration at the Comfort Inn in Bismarck at 12:00pm on Sunday, February 17th and conclude at the Capitol on Monday afternoon February 18th.
We are asking each county attending to have a tabletop display centered on “Join the Revolution of Responsibility” that showcases North Dakota 4-H members’ service learning projects.The display will be part of the 4-H Showcase that takes place from 11AM to 1PM in the Great Hall of the Capitol building.
CURRICULUM
Brenda Vertin, Administrative Coordinator
701.231.7259
4-H Project Sheets
The curriculum committees have completed their work on the North Dakota
4-H project sheets. Each project sheet has information on project levels, activities, events, exhibit ideas, and resources. Please invite your 4-H families, volunteers and staff to view them on our website at:
Livestock Project Records
Livestock project records are being revised. Each record will be fillable online or printable. The forms have many fields that calculate automatically. The forms can be found on our web site at:
- Sheep or Beef Breeding Project Record -
- Swine Breeding Project Record -
- 4-H Dairy Record -
- Market Animal Project Record -
- Beef Breeding Project Lifetime Record – coming soon
- Sheep Breeding Project Lifetime Record – coming soon
EDUCATIONAL TRUNKS
Julie Garden-Robinson, Food & Nutrition Specialist
701.231.7187
Nutrition and Wellness Trunks
The Food, Culture and Reading 4-H trunk and the Eat Smart! Play Hard! 4-H trunk provides many activities for 4-H clubs, classrooms and afterschool activities.
- Eat Smart! Play Hard! 4-H trunk has been updated to reflect the MyPlate. New items include MyPlate Food Bingo, MyPlate Pursuit Jr., Healthy Helpings: MyPlate Activity Mat and fitness dice. The trunk is filled with games and equipment to emphasize healthy eating and physical activity. The resource binder is filled with additional ideas and snack recipes.
- Food, Culture and Reading 4-H trunk contains the recommended books for each unit, laminated Nutrition Facts cards for the activities, laminated cards for the Play Milk Group Challenge Game, Dairy Council cardboard food models, chopsticks, equipment for a few of the physical activities and Food and Culture Bingo. A binder with activities and additional resources including a world map is also included.
A special thank you goes to Macine Lukach for her work on this project.
If you have any questionsplease contact Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist/ Healthy Lifestyle Committee Leader or Macine Lukach, Extension Agent.
Reading Makes Cents Trunk
Reading Makes Cents is a collection of 53 experiential activities developed around exemplary children’s literature that has money as a theme.
Each activity relates to a theme and highlights a specific financial concept, value, or practice (e.g. saving, spending, sharing, earning, borrowing, lending and managing). The literature, concepts about money, and activities were selected to appeal to children in grades 3-5.
All books are identified as one of two levels; level one book’s are appropriate for beginning readers and level two books for more independent readers.
The design of the curriculum features hands-on, exploratory activities that can be completed in an afterschool setting; however, the curriculum could also be used in a traditional 4-H program, with home-schooled youth, or in a school enrichment program. Because parental involvement is essential to teaching children about money and encouraging literacy, take-home activities available in English and Spanish (8-10 for each book level) are included.
There are two Reading Makes Cents trunks that will be at the Ag Communication Distribution Center and the other one will be in Stark-Billings County.
JUDGING UPDATES
Dean Aakre, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
701.231.8595
Winter judging dates
Please share your dates for winter judging activities.Information will be posted on the web site. Here are the dates I am currently aware of:
January 5 – Bismarck State College Roundup
February 2 – Wyndmere
February 8 – Little I NDSU – link to registration form posted on nd4hnews.ning.com
February 9 – Kindred
February 23 – Oakes
March 2 – West River Beulah, and Lisbon
March 8 - Crops judging and hippology at NDWS Valley City
March 9 – Livestock judging at NDWS Valley City
April 12-13 – Horse Quiz Bowl and public speaking, hippology and horse judging at NDSU
No changes have been announced for the make-up of judging teams. Rules regarding number of participants on a team and counties combining to make a judging team are still the same for the state 4-H judging contests.
Crop judging
Information will remain the same as last year. FFA is still planning a review of their event and since so many train with FFA; we will let that review happen before considering any adjustments in the 4-H contest. If you know of good sources for weed mounts or crop market factors, please share that information.
Meats Judging Contest Proposal
Dr. Robert Maddock introduced 4-H meats judging during the fall 4-H training and animal science training at the Western 4-H camp in Washburn. He is still working on how and when to best fit a contest into existing opportunities, however he has indicated that June is looking like the best time for the event.
State Crop Show
The state crop show is held as part of the North Dakota Winter Show. Please encourage 4-H youth in your county to participate in this event. There are separate 4-H, FFA, and open divisions. Top exhibits in each lot advance to the championship division. Now is the time to begin cleaning a sample – two quarts for most crops, one quart for small seed crops like flax, canola, alfalfa, etc. Wouldn’t it be great to have at least one sample from every county?
MISCELLANEOUS
North Dakota 4-H is now on Facebook!
North Dakota 4-H is on Facebook. Check out pictures and upcoming events or post your own comments and pictures. If you have any questions, please contact Holly at or 701-231-7251.
Dean Aakre, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
701.231.8595
nd4hnews.ning.com
As the new 4-H year starts, you are encouraged to post questions and information on the web site. The site is open to anyone, but you must join the site to post information. Please check it out.
Junior Master Gardener Program
I am still collecting information/reports on your 2012 JMG projects. If you received a JMG grant for 2012, please post a report on your program on the web site or send it to . We expect to offer grants for 2013, however, to improve efficiency, expect some slight modification I the application, reporting and request for reimbursement. Watch for announcement in early 2013.
2013 Beekeeping Essay Contest Announced
The Foundation for The Preservation of Honey Bees, Inc. has announced the topic for the 2013 essay contest. The topic is “Reducing the Usage of Bee-Killing Pesticides in my Community.”
The contest is open to active 4-H members only. Essays should be 750 to 1000 words and be on the designated subject only. 4-H members wishing to enter the contest must submit an electronic file by February 1, 2013. North Dakota is permitted to forward one essay to the national contest. State winners will receive a book on honey bees and beekeeping. National winners receive cash prizes of $250, $500, or $750. Contact the Center for 4-H Youth Development for a complete set of the rules and guidelines if you have an interested 4-H member.
North Dakota Winter Show Scholarships
4-H members are invited to apply for scholarships from the North Dakota Winter Show. To be eligible, an applicant must be a resident of North Dakota, a senior in high school, meet criteria of academic standing, have enrollment plans at a college/university in North Dakota and demonstrate leadership character and citizenship. Each year the NDWS Foundation will award up to two scholarships in the amount of $250 each.
Application deadline is February 15. Read the guidelines completely before completing your application. Applications are available at:
Katie Tyler, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
701.857-7677
Help Solve Hunger in your Community!
North Dakota, as a Great Plains state, is not immune to poverty and food in-security issues. A report published by the Center for Rural Affairs at Lyons, Nebraska, cites that rural poverty is a significant issue in many areas of the plains states and one of the signs of living in poverty is food insecurity. This is particularly evident when one considers USDA’s definition of food insecurity as a “lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active healthy life for all household members or limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods”.
Join the ND Action Team for Invest an Acre
The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, an organization that strengthens food security for vulnerable populations at home and abroad, recently launched the Invest an Acre program – a collaboration that includes, ADM, Monsanto, and Feeding America.In partnership with Invest an Acre, 4-H will establish pilot projects with 4-H programs in five key states engaging thousands of 4-H members and volunteers in community-based food-security and hunger-relief projects.
The Center for 4-H Youth Development will engage youth, adults and communities in partnerships through mini grant applications for up to $1,000 through local Extension offices. A youth and adult ND Invest an Acre Action Team will help drive the project. Help involve 500 youth and 100 adult volunteers in community-based, culturally relevant food security/hunger relief projects, resulting in 10,000 hours of volunteer service in North Dakota! Join the Action Team today!
If you, an adult volunteer, or a youth you know would like to become a member of the ND Invest an Acre Action Team, please scan:
Or go to
*Local Extension Agent will be notified of all applications from their county.
More information on the grant application will come soon!
NORTH DAKOTA 4-H FOUNDATION, INC.
Mylie Lavold, ND 4-H Foundation Development Director
701.231.8569
PLEDGE YOUR HEART TO 4-H: GIVING HEARTS DAY 2013!
Dakota Medical Foundation (DMF) and Impact Foundation have selected the ND 4-H Foundation to participate in the 2013 Giving Hearts Day, a 24-hour online fundraising event that will be held on February 14, 2013.
Contributions of $10 or more will be matched (up to 4,000).
To support North Dakota 4-H and have your donation matched, simply go to impactgiveback.org on February 14 and click on the Giving Hearts Day “Donate” button. Scroll to ND 4-H Foundation.
With your help, the ND 4-H Foundation can raise a tremendous amount of funding to support our mission. If the ND 4-H Foundation is one of the top ten organizations to receive the most online contributions, we will receive additional funding from DMF!
Save the Date and Spread the Word! This is a one-day only opportunity to double your gift in support of ND 4-H youth development programs!
(Promotional materials will be available to counties to help promote this day of state-wide giving)
2013 Raffle is underway! Who will be the lucky winner of the Case IH Scout this year?????
Counties can sign up anytime and start selling tickets. Ticket sales go through August 2013 so there is lots of time to raise money and awareness for 4-H at both the county and state levels! We have set a goal of raising $40,000 this year. $40,000 for 4-H!!! We can do it TOGETHER!
OUTDOOR SKILLS/NATURAL RESOURCE EDUCATION
Adrian Biewer, 4-H Youth Development Specialist
701.231.6184
Annual Shooting Sports Meeting
The state program meeting was held in Jamestown. The agenda included the 2013 indoor winter archery event, district matches, state matches, national training, program review, and future program plans. New program information includes a FITA archery event was added to the spring match for seniors only. This is a pilot event and completes the 3 event archery match that is required in the national match. Air rifle will remain a 3 position match. The spring match will be held at the Western 4-H Camp near Washburn tentatively the first weekend in May. The date will be announced after the first of the year.
The summer match is tentatively scheduled to be in Bismarck at the same locations as last year. The match will be all three shotgun events and field archery. The date is TBA in late August as we are waiting for the state shooting associations etc. and ranges to set their schedules.
New District TournamentsIndoor Archery 300
In response to parents wanting more participation opportunities in addition to the state matches, the program is holding the first version of district archery tournament on January 19 at the Burleigh County Extension Office. The divisions are bare bow and freestyle in the three age divisions. Bare bow is recurve and compound bows with no sights or release. Freestyle division is the use of sights on the bows in addition to a release with the compound bow. No magnified sights can be used. See attached sheet.
Please register using 4honline at
Tournament limit is 100 and 4-H members only.
Volunteer Training
It is the plan that there will be locations within each district that hold one tournament a year. We are not limiting it to indoor matches or a single discipline. Those volunteers or staff interested in learning how to organize and manage a tournament can participate in a training session at the office on January 18 at 7:00 pm. and will work the tournament the next day.
The session will provide materials for planning a tournament and the tournament will allow the participants to experience the different job tasks so they can understand everyone’s roles. You do not have to be a certified instructor to work a tournament.
You can register for the training by emailing me at by January 12. Cost is FREE.
If your county is interested in hosting a district tournament in the next year, please contact me.
Air Rifle Standing 60 shot
Ramsey County is planning an air rifle match on March 16 in Devils Lake. The match will be 60 shot standing. Equipment will be available to use. If enough participants request, we will have the shooting equipment such as shooting stands and rifles on site for the match. Request them from me or you can use one of Ramsey County air rifles for a small fee. (They are probably sighted in real good!)