
4-H Friday NewsBlast
02/10/2023
FEBRUARY IS NEBRASKA 4-H MONTH!
Mark your calendars and make plans to celebrate 4-H Month this February! Put your hands to larger service on Saturday, February 11, or Sunday, February 12. Let 4-H volunteers know they are appreciated on Tuesday, February 14. Thank our donors and sponsors on Tuesday, February 21. Show our local 4-H professionals some appreciation on February 28!
Cass County Creative Cats Club
Cass County Clovers Club
Hamma Lamma Slammers Club
2023 Cass County Communications Event - NEW and IMPROVED! April 16 @ 2pm - Cass County Fairgrounds
2023 Cass County Communications Event will include: Prepared Speech, Public Service Announcement (PSA), Illustrated Presentation, Impromptu Speech and Video Communications as well a Clover Kid class! Registration is in 4HOnline using the events tab. More info: https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/cass/cass-county-fair/
Nebraska 4-H Foundation Scholarships
Thanks to the Nebraska 4-H Foundation and our generous donors the Nebraska State 4-H Camp has scholarships available for the 2023 season!
Visit https://4h.unl.edu/camps-discounts to apply.
Chic Days March 25, 2023
Chick Days is an annual educational event for small and back-yard poultry producers and youth to learn more about the poultry industry.
This years event will be held from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., on March 25, 2023 at the Department of Animal Science, 3940 Fair St., Lincoln, NE.
More info: https://animalscience.unl.edu/2023-chick-dayshttps://animalscience.unl.edu/2023-chick-days
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀Be sure to get enrolled! 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Just log in your account using last years information, be sure to make any changes or updates to emails, phone numbers and addresses, select the project areas you are interested in, answer all questions (there are only 2 required questions under the health form.) and be sure to hit the submit button. Here is the link https://v2.4honline.com/
Email Tammy @tcavanaugh2@unl.edu with questions.
If you prefer to complete your YQCA training online, please email Tammy @ tcavanaugh2@unl.edu for a code. Free codes are available to Cass County 4-H youth showing livestock at the Cass County Fair.
Please email your certificate to Tammy when you have completed the training.
More info: https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/cass/yqca-2022/
Hippology Academy is back for 2023!! One of our most popular online course offerings will start on February 6. This course offers six topics, taught by Extension Horse Experts from all over the country. If you select the Silver option, you have access to a forum to have conversations, ask your questions of the Professor of the Week. Topics this time around: Colors and Markings, Digestive Anatomy, Respiratory and Cardiac Anatomy, Evaluating Pastures, Hoof Anatomy, and Pasture Related Diseases. Experts are from Universities of Florida, Purdue, Rutgers, Texas A&M. and Penn State University. Hoping you can join us.
https://catalog.extension.org/product?catalog=HippologyBronze
https://catalog.extension.org/product?catalog=HippologySilver
National 4-H True Leaders in Equity Institute Scholarship
National 4-H True Leaders in Equity Institute Scholarship
Presented by National 4-H Council and CHS Foundation Inc.
Request for Applications Deadline: FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023, 5:00 P.M. EASTERN Contact: Jillian Baker, Sr. Account Manager, National 4-H Council, JBAKER@FOURHCOUNCIL.EDU, (301) 961-2814
More info: True Leaders
Power of Red Visit Day February 23, 2023
All high school students and their families are invited to attend the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) Experience the Power of Red Visit Day on Thursday, February 23rd. This is a free event that enables students to learn more about careers and opportunities in our College as well as meet current UNL students, faculty and staff. The day will begin at 9 am in the East Campus Union and wrap up with lunch and a scholarship drawing by 12:30 pm. Students can learn more and register at casnr.unl.edu/visitday.
NDA Annual Poster Contest
From the food we eat, to the clothes we wear, agriculture positively impacts all of us. To highlight and celebrate agriculture’s many contributions, NDA is sponsoring a student poster contest.
NDA’s annual poster contest is in its 20th year and is open to all Nebraska students in 1st through 6th grades. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Nebraska Agriculture.”
Read more:
https://nda.nebraska.gov/.../NDA's%20Annual%20Poster...
2023 Cass County Summer Camp/Workshop Award Application
Don't forget to get your Summer Camp/Workshop Award Application complete and turned in! You can drop these off at the Extension Office or email them to Tammy @ tcavanaugh2@unl.edu You can find the application here: 2023 Summer Award Application
Nebraska 4-H Livestock Achievement Program - 2023
Excited to announce another year of the Nebraska 4-H Livestock Achievement Program. This additional opportunity for livestock project youth, is designed to promote all educational aspects of 4-H livestock projects including selection, production, leadership, and exhibition by recognizing youth striving to improve in their livestock project knowledge and leadership.
For more information about the program or the process, go to: Livestock Achievement Program | Nebraska 4-H (unl.edu)
COMPANION ANIMAL CHALLENGE
NEBRASKA 4-H DOG ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
2023 FONNER PARK STATE 4-H HORSE EXPOSITION
Spring Rabbit Show - Lancaster Event Center
S.O.A.R. Workshop Series
COME LEARN WITH CARLA - HORSE CLINICS
2023 HORSE JUDGING SCHOOL
The annual Nebraska 4-H Horse Judging School is coming up on Saturday, February 25. All horse show judges, aspiring judges, judging team coaches, and youth are invited to learn about Hunter Under Saddle, Horsemanship, Reining, and 4-H Horse Show Rules and Guidelines. Learn more and register at cvent.me/NX7qrR.
4-H HORSE STAMPEDE
- The Nebraska 4-H Horse Stampede will be held Saturday, March 25, in Lincoln. This event features a variety of horse contests that do not require live animals, including public speaking, demonstration, quiz bowl, art, and photography. Registration is due by Monday, March 6. Learn more at 4h.unl.edu/horse-stampede.
2023 Special Agronomy Project Tepary Beans
Sign up for your seed packet using the events tab in 4HOnline (you need to be enrolled in 4Honline first) by Feb 14, 2023. Email Tammy @tcavanaugh2@unl.edu with questions.
One packet per family please!
ALL High School Seniors!!!!! 👩🎓👨🎓
It's never to early to start your scholarship applications! There are several scholarship opportunities for you as a Cass County 4-H member! Here is the link to local and state scholarship opportunities for you! Due March 1, 2023
https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/cass/4-h-resources/#tab3
Please contact Tammy @ tcavanaugh2@unl.edu with questions.
Frontier Cooperative is offering a scholarship for students entering a college or technical school to further his or her education in agricultural-related studies.
Applications are due March 10, 2023!
More info & apply: https://www.frontiercooperative.com/careers/scholarships
2023 Summer Camp Registration is OPEN!
Shout Outs!
Let us know if your Cass County 4-Her's is doing great things! Just email Tammy @tcavanaugh2@unl.edu the details and of course pictures! We will put "shout outs" in the NewsBlast and possibly on our social media.
Joke of the Week 😁
4-H Calendar
4-H Calendar
- February 1-28, 2023 - Nebraska 4-H Month🍀
- March 25, 2023 - UNL Chic Days🐔
- April 16, 2023 - Cass County Communications Event (Speech & Presentation Contest)
- June 15, 2023 - State 4-H Enrollment Deadline
- June 15, 2023 - YQCA Certificates due.
- June 15, 2023 - Animal ID forms due.
- June 21-22, 2023 State PASE & Life Challenge Contests - Lincoln
- June 23, 2023 - State 4-H Communications Event - UNL East Campus
- Aug 9-12, 2023 Cass County Fair
Nebraska Extension Cass County
Lauren Stohlmann, Extension Educator and Unit Leader, lauren.stohlmann@unl.edu
Carol Waters, Extension Educator, cwaters3@unl.edu
Tammy Cavanaugh, 4-H Staff, tcavanaugh2@unl.edu
Sandy Prall, Office Manager, sprall2@unl.edu
Email: cass-county@unl.edu
Website: www.cass.unl.edu
Location: 8400 144th Street, Weeping Water, NE, 68463
Phone: 402-267-2205
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLCassCounty/
Twitter: @UNLCassCounty
Cass County 4-H