Oahu 4-H - Newsletters

I hope you all had a festive Halloween! Thank you to all who volunteered this past month with Germ city, selling watermelons, and Health Rocks. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Our first annual event of the 4H year is approaching soon, which is the Fashion show. Be sure to check the website for updates in the newsletter and the Fashion show link on the left.

The food show will also coming up soon, so prepare your recipes! Read more about information on the food show in this newsletter.

We will also be needing clubs to serve as committees for these events.
I hope to see you all at fashion/food show workshops!

Please save your dates for the annual 4-H Fashion, which will be held on December 7, 2008, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Art Auditorium on the University of Hawaii campus. The judging and show will be held all in one day. We will have a light lunch of Subway sandwiches. We are asking each club to bring homemade desserts cut up into serving pieces.

We are asking clubs to prepare a short 3 - 5 minutes entertain to present after the modeling and before the awards. The Farrington 4-H club will coordinate this portion of the program.

A workshop on how to apply make-up and facial care will be held on Friday, November 14, 2008 at UGC from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Please let me know by November 10 if your club will be participating. While the workshop is being conducted we will have a meeting with all committees.

The information on the Fashion Show will be posted on the website real soon. The registration forms are due on Wednesday, November 26, 2008.

Decorations- Just Us 4-H Club
Judges and Entertainment- Farrington FCCLA 4-H club
Registration and line up- Pot of Gold
Awards and scores- Erlene and Gail
Program- Warriors

As of now, the 4H 2009 Food Show is scheduled for January 24th, 2009. The food show will be held at the Pearl City High school Cafeteria that evening. The theme for this years food show is an Asian theme, which will consist of dishes that are Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Thai.

I will keep you all updated through e-mail/this newsletter on further information concerning committees, forms, and workshops.

Did you know that thousands of various kinds of robots are employed for jobs which are too dirty, dangerous or dull to be suitable for humans? Robots are widely used in manufacturing, assembly and packing, transport, earth and space exploration, surgery, weaponry, laboratory research, and mass production of consumer and industrial goods. Robotics has a growing field of specialists, and sparking an interest in youth early on could lead to excellent career choices or a very fun hobby!

Come join the fun and learn how Robotics can be an interesting and educational addition to your Science or Technology 4-H club. Myla Gumayagay, Site Facilitator for Keaukaha Technology and Resource Center in Hilo will be leading participants through work with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education NXT Base Set, which she has utilized in projects with youth on the Big Island.

Training is sponsored by UH Cooperative Extension 4-H program and is FREE to all participants. The training will be held from 9-1pm at Bldg 505 Bonny Loop, Fort Shafter (the School-Age and Teen Center building.) Bring your robotics kits if you have them, but you are invited to come even if you don’t; this hands-on learning experience will be useful for future robotics projects.

For more information or to RSVP (by Nov 17th please!) contact Carmen Golay, Military 4-H Program Assistant at 956-4125. *Sponsorship into Fort Shafter is available if you RSVP by Nov. 17th.

Six after school programs and four teen centers on Oahu have kicked off the 2008-2009 4-H year with a wide variety of clubs and interests. Aliamanu Military Reserveration (AMR) school-age program has six project clubs including Hawaiiana, Camp Adventures, Bike Safety, Volleyball, Health & First Aid and Cloverbuds. Teens at AMR will be working on club projects in gardening, cooking and quilt-making. Out at Schofield Barracks, Bennett Youth Center has eight project clubs which include: Photography, Fine Arts, Citizenship, Music & Drama, Cloverbuds, Que Rico! (Latino Culture), Veterinary Sciences and Robotics. Teens at Schofield will be focusing on three project areas including Nutrition & Fitness, Service-Learning and Science & Technology. School-age 4-Hers at Helemano Military Reservation will be working on projects in Science, Exploring the Treasures of 4-H and also doing Cloverbuds, which is especially geared towards kindergarten, first and second graders. Outside of Hawaii, other military reservations that the Cooperative Extension supports are located in Japan (Camp Zama), Kwajalein Atoll and also four Army sites in Korea. Kwajalein 4-Hers will be focusing on Citizenship and learning more about club structure, while Navy sites in Japan and Korea begin forming 4-H clubs this year.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force partnerships with national 4-H are an important part of both school-age and teen center programming in Hawaii and around the world. Youth who must move with their active duty military parent(s) can count on being able to join a 4-H club and continue learning in a project area or switch project areas as interests change. The familiar sight of the green clover, 4-H pledge, and meeting structure may help young people settle in more quickly and make friends when frequent moves change other parts of their lives. 4-H has, for more than 100 years, been a building block in the lives of young Americans. Dedicated leaders and other caring adults make it possible for youth to become smart (head), caring (heart), productive (hands) and active (health) members of communities. We look forward to seeing all the wonderful projects young people at the school-age centers and teen centers produce this year!

4-H Trading Cards

We are a Light Horse Club in the province of Alberta in Canada. Our members have selected to 'trade 4H cards' with other 4H clubs around the world. We would like to invite you to 'join hands around the world' by submitting your Club card. The 4H cards will be displayed on our website (http://mhlh4h.homestead.com/TradingCards.html) with a working link to your own site.

Please make your card 199 pixels wide x 275 pixels high and submit to me at labbies@shaw.ca for inclusion into our Trading 4H Cards around the world. A sample is attached.

"The Secret Life of Bees" is based on the novel by author Sue Monk Kidd. Ms. Kidd is a 4-H alumna who credits her 4-H club experience in entomology and reading as a positive force in her life and career: "Wouldn't you know-- my history with 4-H has to do with books and bugs. So perhaps it is not completely surprising that I grew up not only to read books, but write them, and that one of those books was about the secret life of the Apis Mellifera."

You can find out more about the film, read Ms. Kidd's full story, follow her on a special backstage tour, and view special souvenirs by visiting www.4-H.org. "The Secret Life of Bees" was released on October 17 to great reviews and is in theaters everywhere now.

Have you and your kids worked together on a project that helps the environment? We want to hear from you! Maybe your family started a recycling program in your school or turned a vacant lot into a community garden. Enter the 2009 FamilyFun Volunteers Contest: Green Edition and tell us all about it. Five families chosen by the editors and HandsOn Network will each win $5,000 for the nonprofit of their choice, courtesy of The Walt Disney Company. We also want to hear about your familys best, most creative, and most successful Green Tips: simple ways you and your kids have changed your lives to reduce your impact on the planet, such as switching to reusable lunch containers or starting a "walking school bus" to get kids to school.

The 25 families whose green tips are chosen for publication will each receive $100. Go to http://FamilyFun.com/v http://FamilyFun.com/volunteers olunteers for official rules and submission instructions. The deadline is November 30, 2008

For years Wild Ones® members and chapters have worked with schools and nature centers to plant and maintain natural landscapes in these centers of learning. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the use of natural landscaping with native plant species as an ecologically better alternative to traditional landscaping practices. Schools, nature centers and other nonprofit organizations may apply for a grant annually. Projects must emphasize involvement of students and volunteers and increase the educational value of the site. Creativity in design is encouraged, but must show complete and thoughtful planning. The use of and teaching about native plants and the native plant community is mandatory. Funds will be provided only for the purchase of native plants and seed. For additional guidelines, visit http://www.for-wild.org/sfecvr.html

4-H Clover Corner News
For additional articles on 4-H youth development nationwide, check out the National 4-H Clover Corner News at http://www.4hblogs.org/ccn/

If you have a disability and require special assistance during any of our planned 4-H activities, please call the applicable County Extension 4-H Youth Development Agent two weeks prior to the event.

We welcome your story ideas and 4-H job listings.
Please e-mail them to nakatsuk@hawaii.edu

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