General 4-H Calendar
- September
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- Enrollments and Re-Enrollments begin
- Record book workshops will be offered
- Record book achievement conferences and reviews
- Applications for awards open
- October
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- Award applications due
- Clover Kids After-School begins
- Nature Club begins
- November
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- 4-H Awards Night
- Re-Enrollments due
- December
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- Market beef weigh-in
- January
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- New member enrollment due
- February
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- Area and State recognition applications due
- 4-H scholarship applications due
- March
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- Market swine weigh-in
- April
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- Coming Soon
- May
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- County Fair entries due!
- Market meat goat and sheep weigh-in
- Livestock ID's due for county and state fairs
- June
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- State 4-H Youth Conference in Ames
- Event Day (Saturday)
- July
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- Indoor judging day (static exhibits)
- Poweshiek County Fair
- August
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- Iowa State Fair
- Record book workshops
Club Resources
- 4-H Online
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New 4-H Member Enrollment
4-H Member Re-Enrollment4-H Member Welcome Packet
Re-enrollments begin September 1st!
Please make sure you are registered on 4HOnline and paid your registration fee via 4HOnline or check (dropped off with Extension).
4H Online (for all 4-H members and Clover Kids to enroll)
Enrollment Instructions
4H enrollments and re‐enrollments will be completed in 4HOnline. Help sheets are available below. Please remember the following pieces of information:For those re‐enrolling DO NOT CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT. Just log into your previous years account and update the information or add additional 4H’ers. If you have forgotten your password, select I forgot my password and a new one will be sent to you. For 4‐H purposes your county is Poweshiek regardless of wha
- 4-H Club Officer Resources
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Club Officer Resources:
President
Vice President
Treasurer (Treasurer Report)
Secretary (Secretary Report)
Reporter
Photographer
Historian - 4-H Club Leader Resources
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Financial Management
Medical Release Forms
Prescription Release Forms
Tips for Conducting Club Meetings: This publication focuses on meeting structure, engaging youth, fun activities to try with your club, the roles of officers, setting boundaries for youth and how to use positive discipline.Vibrant 4-H Clubs: This brochure covers 4-H club best practices, 4-H resources, and group decision making methods.
Pre-meeting Activities: This document contains a list of activities you can try when working with youth to keep them engaged and to promote a sense of belonging and inclusiveness in the club.
- County Council
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Coming Soon
Record Keeping
Yearly Summary (must accompany all record books.)
- Project Area Forms
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Basic 4-H Project Record (grades 4-6)
Experienced 4-H Project Record (grades 7-9)
Advanced 4-H Project Record (grades 10-12)
Project Research Award Application - Livestock Project Record Sheets
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Breeding Animals
Dairy & Dairy Goat
Dog
Horse & Pony
Market Animals
- Market Worksheet Basic
- Market Worksheet Experienced
- 4-H Poultry Project Worksheet
- Laying Flock Worksheet
Rabbit
Safety and Education in Shooting Sports (SESS)
- Why Should We Do Record Books?
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- To learn how to set goals, how to make plans for action and how to evaluated yourself
- To learn skills of organization that can be used now and in the future
- To learn to communicate and summarize
- To learn responsibility by completing a task
- This is a great way to look back on all you have done through out 4-H! We promise one day you will be glad you pushed through and completed these books!
- Record Keeping Tips
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As you work on your record books, particularly your project records, you need to keep in mind the difference between a project and an exhibit.
- Project Areas: This is a specific project area you would like to learn more about throughout your year in 4-H. There are 42 different project areas to chose from. They are: Beef, Dairy Cattle, Dairy Goats, Dog, Bottle Calf, Horse & Pony, Meat Goats, Pets, Poultry, Rabbit, Sheep, Swine, Veterinary Science, Music, Photography, Visual Arts, Horticulture, Crop Production, Child Development, Clothing, Food & Nutrition, Consumer Management, Health, Home Improvement, Sewing, Citizenship, Communication, Digital Storytelling, Leadership, Self Determined, Mechanics & Design, Woodworking, Science, Engineering and Technology, Outdoor Adventures, Safety & Education in Shooting Sports, Environment and Sustainability
- Exhibits: This is an outgrowth of what you learned in your project area. This is what you bring to the County Fair to have evaluated by a judge such as a photograph or a market steer.
- You do NOT have to complete a Project Record for each of your fair exhibits. For example: You may have taken three photographs and a visual arts project to the County Fair with four different Indoor Judging Day Write-Ups. For your record book, however, you only need to complete one Project Record for Creative Arts.
- Helpful Documents
Awards and Scholarships
- Junior & Intermediate (4-9)
- Senior (10-12)
- Make a Difference Award
- Club Awards:
- Friends of 4-H Previous Award Winners
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This award is given out at our year end awards ceremony to recognize adult volunteers, families, or businesses who make a significant contribution in either time or financial support to the Poweshiek County 4-H program. The nominee does not need to be a past 4-H’er, but should have made contributions to the 4-H program beyond the club level.
We thank the following individuals, families or businesses for their contributions through the years:
- 2000 Frances Hall
- 2001 John Waterbeck
- 2002 KGRN
- 2003 Larry Iverson
- 2004 J.O. Parker
- 2005 Myron Widmer
- 2006 Lucille Van Dyke
- 2007 Poweshiek County Farm Bureau
- 2008 Grinnell Herald Register
- 2009 Poweshiek Cattleman
- 2010 Brownell’s Inc
- 2011 Poweshiek County CR
- 2012 Fremont Farms of Iowa
- 2013 Kyle McCuen and Betsy Cranston
- 2014 Pizza Ranch of Grinnell
- 2015 Theisen’s of Grinnell