Show your spirit of Making a Difference in One Day by ordering a 2018 One Day 4-H T-Shirt. T-Shirts are available for PRESALE ONLY. T-Shirts must be ordered by September 21, 2018 and will be shipped to your county office in time for the One Day 4-H Event on October 13, 2018. Shirts can be ordered individually by members and volunteers at: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/events/oneday/

 

This year, we have a new event to kickoff National 4-H Week in Texas. Texas 4-H Day in Aggieland will be October 6, 2018. There are several opportunities with this event: 

1) Order football tickets as a group and attend the Texas A&M vs Kentucky football game. Tickets are $30. Click here to order football tickets. Enter the promo code Texas4H.

2) Be part of the Texas A&M College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Texas 4-H “Going Green” tailgate 3 hours prior to game time. This is a very fun and FREE event for your 4-H families and volunteers to join. RSVP for the tailgate here. A fun opportunity for 4-H attendees to mingle with college faculty, students, donors, and alumni, as well as other 4-H’ers who attend. Food and entertainment are provided.

3) 4-H youth, their families, volunteers, and all who would like to join are invited to a prospective student session with faculty and students in the College of Ag & Life Sciences. This is a great opportunity for youth of any age to mingle with faculty and students… and it’s FREE! RSVP to the prospective student session here. 

4) Order a TAMU COALS/Texas 4-H Going Green Tailgate T-shirt. This information will be sent out on the blog once we have details from the college on price, order link, etc. Please watch the Practitioner’s blog and the Texas 4-H Facebook page for this information: https://texas4-hpractitioners.blogspot.com/

Participants do NOT have to be involved in all four parts of the day, i.e. if a family wants to tailgate but not go to the game, that’s perfectly fine, or vice versa. 

Join us for the 9th Annual Coastal Bend Classic on December 1 & 2, 2018!!!

This year the event has been expanded to two days. Clinics and showmanship contests will be held on Saturday, December 1 and shows will be held on Sunday December 2. All Texas 4-H and FFA members are invited to participate. Registration opens late September. Visit the event webpage often for up-to-date information: https://d114-h.tamu.edu/events-and-contests/coastal-bend-classic/

2018 District 11 Crossroads will be held Thursday, November 8 through Saturday, November 10, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Express in Huntsville, Texas. Crossroads is a career development and youth leadership program for 8th-12th grade youth that introduces them to various career and higher education opportunities. We have four great sessions planned sponsored by the Department of Agriculture at Sam Houston State University: Body in Motion, Animal Science, Forensic Science, and Engineering Technology. Check our our website for more information: https://d114-h.tamu.edu/events-and-contests/crossroads/

Registration is available September 1 – October 12, 2018 for $175.

Late registration is available October 13 – November 2, 2018 for an additional $25 fee.

 

Congratulations D11 youth for achieving the following State Recordbook results! Youth placing first have earned a trip to Washington DC!

Samantha Henke –  Lavaca County – 5th Place – Agricultural Sciences

J. Burns Cowley – DeWitt County – 3rd Place – Beef

Jayna Grove – Nueces County – 1st Place – Citizenship & Civic Education

Madeleine Gulding – Nueces County – 2nd Place – Clothing & Textiles

Laurece Silcox – Colorado County – 8th Place – Communication & Expressive Arts

Mollie Goetzel – Nueces County – 11th Place – Companion Animal

Clayton Boeker – Washington County – 2nd Place – Consumer Education

Lisa Seidenberger – DeWitt County – 5th Place – Entomology

Hannah Bludau – Lavaca County – 2nd Place – Family Life

Emma Grahmann – Lavaca County – 5th Place – Food & Nutrition

Joshua Wigley – Nueces County – 1st Place – Gardening & Horticulture

Justin Ficklen – DeWitt County – 3rd Place – Goat

Luke Bludau – Lavaca County – 6th Place – Health

Reagan Hoelscher – Nueces County – 1st Place – Horse

Hannah Chumchal – Wharton County – 1st Place – Leadership

Connor Himly – Washington County – 3rd Place – Natural Resources

Wyatt Daughtry – Bee County – 8th Place – Personal Development

Briana Villarreal – Nueces County – 1st Place – Photography

Reagan Fox – Nueces County – 3rd Place – Plant & Soil Science

Amber Orsak – Wharton County – 5th Place – Poultry

Zane Wanjura – Colorado County – 1st Place – Public Speaking

Mallory Grimes – Matagorda County – 4th Place – Rabbit

Parker Mason – Washington County – 4th Place – Recreation

Reid Bentke – Washington County – 3rd Place – Science, Engineering & Technology

Megan Frerich – San Patricio County – 2nd Place – Sheep

Rachel Wynans – Washington County – 9th Place – Shooting Sports

Marshall Mahalitc – Wharton County – 9th Place – Swine

Rylee King – Nueces County – 3rd Place – Veterinary Science

Kaden Simon – DeWitt County – 7th Place – Wildlife & Fisheries

For complete results: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018_Recordbook-State-Winners.pdf

 

This October, 4‑H and Google will launch an exciting National Youth Science Day challenge, Code Your World, which invites kids to get involved in computer science through hands-on doing. NYSD will be held on October 3 and local activities can be held then or any other date.

Code Your World is a four-part computer science (CS) challenge that teaches kids to apply CS to the world around them through hands-on activities. Developed by Google and West Virginia University Extension Service, it includes a computer-based activity on Google’s CS First platform and three unplugged activities that bring coding to life through games and interaction.

Code Your World uses games and hands-on fun to teach kids important CS and computational thinking concepts, and is perfect for first-time and beginner coders ages 8-14.

To learn more and to order your Challenge Kit for your school, club, after school program or home (pre-sale ends August 8 to save $2/kit): Learn More about 4-H NYSD and Code Your World.