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Education Sessions 2
Partner with Marathon Kids and host a Color Me Green 5K Run!
Session ID
C1
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
This session will help volunteers and staff learn how to host a Color Me Green 5K Run. The Color Me Green 5K Run event will provide you with a statewide service learning opportunity specific to the improvement of health. Youth and adults will partner together to organize and execute a 5K run in your community. Past successes and challenges will be discussed and each participant will be given a CMG Host guide.The session will start with taking the participants on a run/walk.
Speaker
Anne Iaccopucci
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Becoming a Global Citizen
Session ID
C2
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Stretch the way you think about yourself and others and explore opportunities for youth to think globally and act locally to make a difference in the world they live in. Connect your 4-H club to cultures around the globe and help your youth develop valuable lifeskills. Participants will be actively engaged in hands-on activities that teach how we are all inter-related through the global economy.
Speaker
Kevin Wright
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Bullying: What it is & How to be a Supportive Ally
Session ID
C3
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Pending
Speaker
Dorina Espinoza
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ROCK your Reasons!
Session ID
C4
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
In this workshop, participants will experience a wave of change in their approach of oral reason through direct, hands-on activities. No matter which career you choose, effective communication is a must to be successful. Reasons will assist you in organizing your thoughts and presenting them in a confident, precise, and logical manner. Ease the stress and fears of oral reasons. This workshop will be constantly moving and captivating as we all ROCK Your Reasons!
Speaker
Callie Ward
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Helping Youth Through Conflict
Session ID
C5
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Focus will be on how to help youth handle conflict by teaching staff and volunteers: How to identify and classify conflicts and difficulties including; know their personal triggers and how to keep calm in trying situations; learn strategies for effective conflict management including resources and support. This session will help volunteers learn ways to deal with conflict in order to be a positive role model and mentor to youth when they are dealing with their own difficulties.
Speaker
Jamie Morris
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Open Up to Performing Art
Session ID
C6
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
In this workshop we will learn an experiential technique to encourage critical listening and see how that technique fits in the context of a full-day event or ongoing club program. A central feature of this workshop will be learning the Notice, Feel, Remind, Wonder framework and journaling activity. Includes small group discussion questions, a quiz on concert etiquette, ideas for seeing arts performances for free or little cost, and reflection questions.
Speaker
Wendy Hein
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Lessons from the Barn: Engaging Animal Science Curriculum for Adult and Youth Leaders
Session ID
C7
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
In this workshop, a lesson from “Bio-security in 4-H Animal Science,” will be highlighted as well as other state recommended animal science curriculum. This session will bring current animal science training to participants and provide examples of how to include youth on both sides- as leaders and as learners - through a practice and discussion time. Participants will jump right into an activity, then discuss what happened – using the five senses- and finally analyze what’s important, why does it matter, and what’s next. The session emphasizes the importance of working with youth to practice and guide the lessons.
Speaker
DeAnn Tenhunfeld
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Breaking On the Shore: How you as a teen can bring new programs to your community
Session ID
C8
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
4-H teens will learn how to bring new 4-H programming into their communities through new and existing venues (e.g., out-of-school, after school, community clubs, SPIN clubs). Tools and activities from the Youth Experiences in Science (YES) curriculum will be used as they are taken through the planning and implementation stages of starting a teens as teachers program in their local communities.
Speaker
Car Mun Kok
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4-H Soccer: Winning Outreach & PYD Goals
Session ID
C9
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Learn about this program's challenges and successes in engaging new audiences which not traditionally part of the 4-H program. Participants will learn: 1) Strategies for recruiting and training volunteers, 2) How to recruit and engage youth participants, 3) How to secure facilities for practice and games, 4) Strategies in developing partnerships with schools, soccer clubs, parks & recreation, etc.
Speaker
Cristian Curiel
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Project 4-H20
Session ID
C10
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Learn about Project 4-H2O, which is a project that combined nutrition with 4-H youth development, which took 4-H programming into new areas and gained access to new funding opportunities.
Speaker
Charles Go
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#MillennialProblems
Session ID
C11
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
This workshop will teach leaders how to better engage with millennials and recent alumni in the 4-H program. We will show leaders how to implement new opportunities for young adults, episodic volunteerism, at the local and higher levels of the 4-H program.This session will give attendees an opportunity to learn how to better utilize the recent alumni population of 4-H. It's a small change to engage this group of alumni but it has big impact to these alumni and to the youth members that they can now mentor.
Speaker
Sarah Lloyd
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Creating Change Through Youth-Driven Service-Learning Projects
Session ID
C12
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Workshop participants will be introduced to two successful 4-H programs that incorporate service-learning projects and create partnerships between youth and adults throughout various communities. The workshop will provide Extension professionals with the opportunity to participate in a variety of hands-on examples of service-learning projects, as well as be given one year’s worth of service-learning plans that can be easily replicated to fit individual community needs.
Speaker
Shannon Cromwell
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Needed: Your Feedback on Volunteer Opportunities in the West!
Session ID
C13
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Providing epic opportunities for volunteers in the Western Region may mean that we need to change the way we do things. Give us your best thinking on how to make learning for volunteers relevant, valued and accessible to most. (Session limited to 20 people, offered multiple times).
Speaker
4-H Western Region Volunteer Specialists
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Unlearn to Learn (and Instruct)
Session ID
C14
Day/Time
Saturday 1030-1200
Description
Deer Ears, Owl Eyes, Fox Walking and the Blindfolded String Walk are doorways to the Quiet Mind. Understanding the profound benefits of focusing on, or taking away, one of our senses to enhance the remaining senses helps us to slow down, concentrate and bring our awareness to the present moment – ultimately creating a fertile ground for learning, understanding and empathy. Corresponds to Earth Seasoned Lesson Plans: Autumn #5 and Spring #4
Speaker
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