Butterfly Videos from National 4-H Training
9:42 AM
See the links below and use 4hseturban as the password for each.
The Butterfly Disaster
The Butterfly Detective
Monarch Butterfly Migration
Fly Away – The Story of Two Migrating Monarchs
What if There Were No Biodiversity?
Let Your Dreams Have Wings
Where Did All the Monarchs Go?
The Life of a Dying Monarch
Press Release!
8:48 AM
(Oakland County, MI) One of Eight Sites to Lead New
National 4-H Science Program
National Launch of SET in Our Community – A Digital Storytelling Project
[Oakland County, MI (December 7, 2009)] – Oakland County 4-H Youth Development is one of eight sites selected to pilot a new 4-H science program, called Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) in Our Community – A Digital Storytelling Project. In the project, 4-H youth will create short films that explore science in their communities and enter them into a national contest.
“We are excited about these eight teams and the great plans they have to engage youth in the exploration of the science involved in timely and important issues in their urban communities,” said Chad Ripberger, Project Director, 4-H SET in Urban Communities. “We believe that filmmaking will be a powerful way for youth to express what they have learned about key issues and what they believe can be done at community and personal levels.”
Jason Scott, Oakland County 4-H Program Coordinator; Richard Reeves community partner; along with Blake Muligan and Faith McGhee, 4-H youth participated in the national kickoff of the project at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD, October 14-16. At the event, youth discussed numerous public issues at the project kickoff – including water quality, industrial pollution, urban forestry and wildlife habitat, and renewable energy sources and technologies.
As the local project leadership team, the 4-H youth and staff will partner with Richard Reeves to involve 20-30 youth in the production of 6-10 short science films – between now and August of 2010. The teams will identify and research the science involved in issues in their community, document it through film, and deliver presentations to groups of local leaders and decision makers. At the end of the program, Oakland County 4-H will showcase the efforts of the youth by screening their films and selecting the top three to enter a national 4-H science film contest. Youth will use new resources available on the 4-H Filmmaking Workshop and Studio website - http://projects.4-hcurriculum.org/curriculum/filmmaking/.
The program is serving as the pilot project for a new 4-H initiative, 4-H SET in Urban Communities, and will help develop professional development resources
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for local 4-H professionals working in urban communities. The eight pilot sites are Atlantic City, NJ; Baltimore, MD; Denver, CO; Indianapolis, IN; Houston, TX; Murfreesboro, TN; Pontiac, MI; and Spokane and Vancouver, WA.
SET in Our Community – A Digital Storytelling Project and the 4-H SET in Urban Communities initiatives are funded by the Noyce Foundation. The Noyce Foundation is a sponsor of the National 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology Program to prepare one million young people to excel in science, engineering and technology and expose them to a multitude of potential SET careers. Through new 4-H SET clubs, camps and after-school programs; innovative curriculum and SET training for 3,500 4-H professionals and 500,000 volunteers, Noyce Foundation is helping 4-H build a pipeline of our nation’s future scientists and engineers.
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About 4-H
4-H is a community of six million young people across America learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. National 4-H Council is the private sector, non-profit partner of National 4-H Headquarters (USDA). The 4-H programs are implemented by the 106 Land-Grant Universities and the Cooperative Extension System through their 3,100 local Extension offices across the country.
About the Noyce Foundation:
The Noyce Foundation is interested in significantly increasing the number of youth in the United States who pursue professions in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). It believes that providing large numbers of young people with out-of-school, engaging, quality, hands-on science, engineering, and technology experiences will stimulate a larger percentage to pursue STEM careers and enhance general STEM knowledge. The Foundation’s goal is to support the informal science community in developmental initiatives that address gaps that exist in outcomes measurement, research and evaluation, program scale up, leadership development, and policy issues.
Contact
4-H: Oakland County
4-H Program Coordinator: Jason Scott
4-H Program Coordinator Email: jscott@msu.edu
4-H Program Coordinator Phone Number 248-858-0892
4-H Program Coordinator Email: jscott@msu.edu
4-H Program Coordinator Phone Number 248-858-0892
Meeting Poll
11:42 AM
Please Click on the link Below and fill out the poll by entering your name and filling out the meeting button for each day!
Ideas for Films
11:30 AM
Hey gang feel free to post your Film Ideas for our project this year! I will help us prioritize them by time and resources available. Please change this post as needed!
- 4-H Robotics Team (December 12th) (Our Team Qualified for the State Finals and this would be a great way to document the hard work that they did in order to get there.) State Qualifying Competition is in Flint, MI
- 4-H2O Water Quality Day in (April 2009)
- 4-H using technology as a resource
- SCRUBS club Cat Project (December 2009-?)
- Lathurp Village Children's Garden (March?)
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