Ctr 4-H Youth Development
Shotgun is one of the most enjoyable disciplines of the 4-H Shooting Sports program, and it continues to grow in participation every year. Around our state, 4-H participants break thousands of clay targets with practiced accuracy and their favorite shotguns.
Young people are attracted to this sport for several challenges it offers: 4-H’ers might hope to achieve a personal goal of consecutive targets hit, or perhaps they desire top recognition in their district event. Both are worthy of their time and effort.
The 4-H State Invitational Shotgun Events are some of the most fun and eye-opening events that we have in the 4-H Shooting Sports program. It is definitely a departure from the Clover Clay course that is seen at the local and district levels of competition. At these events, participants are faced with three different shotgun “games,” all designed to give 4-H’ers a more advanced competition and a small introduction to what they might see at the national championship.
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mariah Morgan remembers inquisitive 8-year-olds, just learning how to program beginner robots for 4-H projects. The rest of the world now sees one of them as a team of champion programmers.
Wait For It, the Rankin County 4-H robotics club, just earned top honors at the FIRST Tech Challenge at Minute Maid Park in Houston. FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology."
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi 4-H offers a unique way to celebrate the unofficial Star Wars Day, May 4, by encouraging support of the state 4-H Robotics Program.
May 4 is recognized for its connection to the famous movie line, "May the force be with you."
"May the Fourth has become a day to celebrate science, technology, engineering and math," said Mariah Morgan, an assistant Extension professor with the Mississippi State University Extension Center for Technology Outreach.
JACKSON, Miss. -- Before Carson Keene sold his grand champion Duroc hog at the Dixie National Sale of Junior Champions, he had a conversation with his family about where the proceeds should go.
The 12-year-old 4-H'er and sixth-grader at Presbyterian Christian School in Petal had known for several months that his 6-year-old schoolmate Noelle Carter was awaiting treatment at Batson Children's Hospital for liver cancer. He decided to donate the auction proceeds to Carter's family.
“Our school was raising money, and I wanted to try to do something, too,” Keene said.
4-H Fashion Revue Rules
- Competition is open to all 4-H'ers age 8 to 18 years old who were selected as county winners in a competitive Fashion Revue.
- Contestants may enter only one outfit.
- Entries should be on an official entry form and postmarked by the first Monday in October of the current year to the 4-H Department.
- No limit to number of entries.
- Each category will have a Junior and a Senior Division.
MADISON, Miss. -- Jaclyn Anderson admits her strong suit is not math or science, but that did not stop her from providing a robotics class for children at the Rebecca Baine Rigby Library in Madison.
“I really wanted to have this program for the kids,” said Anderson, youth services director with the Madison County Library System. “We had done a very basic class two summers ago, but it wasn’t a hands-on class because we didn’t have any robots or computers or computer software. We just showed them how to build a circuit.”
