Michigan 4-H Today

Special Edition   

Workshops 

The forum will feature 50 workshops covering a wide variety of 4-H-related subjects. To give you an idea of just some of what will be included, there will be workshops on:

 4-H club management

• There's an app for that
• Cake decorating
• Foods
• Games and activities to involve members
• Putting science in livestock projects
• Photography
• Rabbits
• Robotics
• Growing 4-H Science
• Service learning
• Sewing
• Technology
• 4-H on the web
• And so much more!

Speakers 

Michelle Cummings - Well-known speaker, author and leader in the team- development industry, and founder of Training Wheels - will deliver the keynote address, Leadership and the Trust Factor.

Barbara Stone - Kansas 4-H director - will share the Promise and Power of Positive Youth Development and excite volunteers about implementing positive youth-development practices.

Lisa Lauxman - USDA's director of the Division of Youth and 4-H - will remind listeners that There Is No Place Like 4-H as she tells stories of 4-H successes.

Tours 

In addition to many local Wichita attractions (such as elite shopping areas, Sedgwick County Zoo, The Exploration Place, museums and art galleries) that forum participants can visit on their own, there will be 3 guided tours forum attendees can take:

1. Space Over and Under - This tour will take participants to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and the Kansas Underground Salt Museum.
2. Western Heritage - Those going on this tour will visit the 44-foot statue, the Keeper of the Plains, the Mid-America All-Indian Center, the Old Cowtown Museum and Old Town.
3. For the Guys - Tour New Holland and the Kansas Aviation Museum.

Contact Information 

Michigan 4-H Today is a bimonthly newsletter for all those interested in 4-H Youth Development programs including its members, parents, volunteers, staff, alumni and retirees. It is published by the Michigan State University Extension 4-H Youth Development office and it is distributed online.

Please contact Michigan 4-H Today:

Priscilla Martin, Editor

Room 240

446 West Circle Drive

East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: 517-432-7635

Email: pjmartin@msu.edu

Fax: 517-353-4846

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