Cherokee County 4H & Youth

Cherokee County 4-H

4-H Clubs in Cherokee County

2012-2013 4-H Enrollment Process
Click on this link to find out how to enroll in 4-H in Cherokee County. 
4hOnline Enrollment Site

"4-H Highlights" Newsletters
        March/April 2013

4-H Weekly News
from the State 4-H Office.  Keep up-to-date on events, grants, forms, fair info, and fun!  Updated weekly.

 

"New 4-H Member Memo"
A newsletter for new 4-H families.

Welcome to 4-H - A "How to" Guide for 4-H Families

4-H Project Areas (NEW)
Click on this link to find 4-H "Hot Sheets" with project information and exhibit ideas and "Exhibit Tip Sheets" that explain what the judge is looking for and other suggestions for preparing your exhibits. 

4-H Livestock Identification OnLine (NEW ONLINE PROCESS)
   Help Sheet for identifying Cherokee County 4-H Livestock in 4hOnline    
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COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) and Livestock Premises ID Number Information

FAIRS 
      2013 Cherokee County  Fair - July 18th through 21st 
              Schedule
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Livestock Showmanship & Judging Contest Info

Copyright Permission
Instructions on obtaining permission to use copyright materials and sample letter,
pdf or Word format (Look under "Exhibitor Resources.")
Frequently Asked Questions:
    
General
     Communications
     Clothing

4-H Name and Emblem Regulations

Scholarships & Grants

State Awards & Opportunities

Iowa 4-H Youth Conference, Animal Science ROUND-UP, & CSI:  Crops

Cherokee County
4-H Rules
 (adopted October 2006)

Statewide Resources

  • Provides opportunities for youth to develop skills they can use now and throughout their life, empowering them to reach their full potential working and learning in partnership with caring adults.

  • Statewide updates posted each Thursday afternoon by the State 4-H Office. Check it out every week to keep up-to-date on events, grants, forms, fair info, and fun!

  • Join a 4-H club where you can learn about your interests while having fun, improving your communication skills, and serving your community. These are resources to make your club experience even better.

  • Your adventure in 4-H starts here. Choose from nearly 50 project areas and discover your skills, talents and interests.

  • Discover the world of animal science from breeding, nutrition and general care to food safety and management. Find statewide forms, trainings and activity sheets here.

  • Every June, 1000 teenagers converge on the Iowa State University campus for 3 days of speakers, workshops, mixers, dances, a banquet, and community service activities. If you've completed 8th-12th grade, you're eligible to attend. Non-4-H members are welcome.

  • Youth and teens can discover opportunities to be recognized for personal growth, project learning, leadership and citizenship. 

  • Clover Kids is a FUN 4-H program for children in kindergarten through third grade. Children participate in hands-on activities designed to build many life skills!

  • Takes service to the next level. It builds civic skills, improves social behavior, increases youth engagement, strengthens communities and improves academic achievement.

  • Addresses youths’ basic needs through the eight essential elements: caring adults, safe environments, inclusive settings, and opportunities for mastery, service, self-determination, planning for the future and engaged learning.

  • Provides financial resources to develop and deliver quality 4-H youth programs and opportunities throughout the state of Iowa.

  • An ideal year-round getaway for families, corporate retreats, team-building experiences, 4-H clubs and more, situated on 1,100 acres of wooded bluff and native prairie in the heart of Iowa's Des Moines River Valley near Madrid.

  • Challenge your mind by exploring the world around you with hands-on science experiments and solve problems using engineering design principles and the latest technology.

  • Iowa 4-H Volunteers are motivated by positive purposes in helping youth become caring, competent, and contributing members of their family and communities. Discover the resources you need to be most effective.

  • Provides opportunities for youth to demonstrate, learn and apply project and communication skills. Every year the 4-H Exhibits Building features well over 3,000 exhibits and Livestock shows engage more than ## youth.

  • A partner and leader in providing positive youth development through out-of-school programming. Outreach priorities include curriculum development, staff training, and partnership development.

  • A unique partnership between AmeriCorps and Iowa's Promise. The vision is that all Iowa youth have safe and supportive families, schools and communities and that they are healthy, socially competent, successful in school and prepared for a productive adulthood.

  • When you just don't know who to talk to, Teenline can help.

    • 1-800-443-8336
    • 1-800-735-2942
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