New 4-H Clubs Earn Charters

Ten new 4-H clubs will receive official charters this year. In order for these military clubs to be recognized in this way, the leaders must submit complete youth enrollment forms and 10 detailed lesson plans for club activities including processing questions. After enrollments and lesson plans are received, we provide written feedback on a score sheet to the leaders so that they might improve the lessons using ESPGA and emphasizing Belonging, Independence, Generosity and Mastery.

The ten clubs receiving charters this year:
Aliamanu School Age: Theater Club, Up for the Challenge, Pet Pals, Gardening
Bennett Youth Center: Multicultural Club
Helemano School Age: Cooking Club, Theater Club
Camp Walker (Korea) School Age: Community Club, Music Club, Photography Club

If you have questions about the lesson plans or feedback we provide, you can ask Carmen or Claire. thanks!

Oahu Military 4-H Leaders Attend Training

January 14, 2010: 22 Oahu-based military 4-H leaders participated in a half-day meeting and training. Throughout the year the leaders are tasked with promoting their club activities or a specific event so we conducted a hands-on "poster making" session. Utilizing the 4-H Communications Toolkit, we took a train-the-trainer approach so that leaders can help club members understand basic design principles when promoting their 4-H events.

We also began planning for "Spring Fling" 4-H events. Each year in March, during the Spring Break holiday, 4-H clubs host or attend various events to celebrate the end of their 4-H year and accomplishments. More info to come on what the group has planned for this year.

If you have questions or want to know more about military 4-H clubs in Hawaii, Japan, Korea or Kwajalein, you can contact Carmen Golay: military4-h@ctahr.hawaii.edu.

Western Region SET Conference Call

I attended the Western Region SET Liaison conference call today (Jan. 27th) and thought I would pass along some of the relevant highlights:

• There is a new online project, called “Planting Science” for youth interested in botany/horticulture. Two modules are available to teachers/students from Feb. 15 – April 30 – “The Wonder of Seeds” and “The Power of Sunlight”, and while it is for classroom use, some of the information may be applicable to our 4-H work. The target audience is high school. 4-H is a partner in this effort, along with the Botanical Society of America.

http://www.plantingscience.org/index.php

• There is a 4-H Robotics Curriculum in development that will be released this fall and will feature 3 modules with a variety of games and platforms (including LEGO NXT, VEX, TETRIX and the Jump-o-bot).
• National 4-H is sending out a survey to State SET contacts and State 4-H Leaders to determine the needs of each state’s 4-H staff. These needs will be addressed at a conference in D.C. from Dec. 7 – 9, 2010. There are currently no funds to support travel, lodging, fees, etc. for attending the conference, but they are working on getting sponsorship.
• The 2010 National 4-H Youth Science Day letters of intent are due by Thursday, Jan. 28^th. The 2010 theme will be related to water quality/climate change and will be held on Oct. 6, 2010.

https://www.4-h.org/NYSD/2010experiment.php

• We discussed a couple of PBS sites (and TV programs) with some great, downloadable science/engineering activities that I thought some of you may be interested in:

http://www.pbs.org/parents/fetch/index.html

http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/index.html

• There is a very relevant PBS program coming up:

DIGITAL NATION
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, from 9 to 10:30 P.M. ET on PBS

FRONTLINE EXPLORES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN IN A WORLD IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/press/

• And if you want to learn more about using technology with our members, there is a series of free Media and Technology Webinars, presented by PBS Teachers and “Classroom 2.0”:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/

Hawaii's National 4-H Congress Delegates Hula

Congratulations to Hawaii's 2008 National 4-H Congress Delegates. They a great job in their hula performance.

National 4-H Youth Science Day

On October 8, 2008 the 4-H Youth Development Program is launching the first annual 4-H National Youth Science Day to help build America's future science, engineering, and technology workforce. The National Science Experiment, the designated science activity of 4-H National Youth Science Day, will focus on the environment and will use science principles to teach youth across the country about the importance of water conservation.

More details about the event can be found here: http://www.4-h.org/4-HNYSD.html

And you can now check out the experiment itself.

Questions can be directed to Andy Ferrin (301-961-2972) or Allyson McMahan (301-961-2915) at National 4-H Council.

Apparently, we will be able to try out the experiment at Galaxy on Monday evening's "2008 Curriculum Showcase". I'll try to bring home other 4-H S.E.T. materials and ideas from Indianapolis next week.

Aloha! - Tom

Hawaii FLL Training

Aloha Everyone-

Just a reminder - September 6th 8am-430pm - FLL coaches clinic at EB DEsilva Schoool - Hope to see you there!!

4-H.org S.E.T page

I wanted to see if I could link to the 4-H.org home page for Science, Engineering and Technology.

4-H S.E.T.