Friday, May 19, 2023

Volume 4 Issue 16

Friday 4-H Nugget

Greetings 4-H Community,

Many thanks to our volunteers, families and supporters on our county-wide flower fundraiser last month. Below you will find the top 5 selling clubs. Congratulations to you all. There is a lot of planning and happenings over the next couple of weeks. One of the big ones is that FairEntry will be opening up at the end of the month.

It is important that every 4-H member completes FairEntry so that we know what you are bringing to the county fair. We are trying to get all of our tags for exhibits printed ahead of time so please help us out!

All the best,

Robby Kelly & Sthele Greybar

Extension Educators

4-H Projects - New Things to Know!

Fair Entry

It is super important that all 4-H projects (including Mini 4-H) be entered into FairEntry prior to you bringing the exhibit to the fairgrounds. FairEntry opens May 24. You will receive instructions on how to add your projects to the system. This is critical to our success in July when we need to judge thousands of 4-H exhibits. Please take time to do this. Our office would really appreciate it.

Entry Cards

We will use different entry cards this year. They are very similar to what is used at the Indiana State Fair. As such, you do not need to leave space in the lower right-hand corner of your poster project like you normally would. The project will NOT be scored lower if the entry card covers part of the poster. The Indiana State Fair does not mark down for this either.

State Fair Check-out Date

New this year, we will no longer be checking-out state fair projects during our fair! State fair project check-out will be on Sunday, July 30 from 2pm-5pm, during the same time as the rest of our project check-out. State fair eligible exhibits will be transported down to Indianapolis the following day, July 31 to be judged and displayed.

Area X Performing Arts Contest Results

Each year, the top five acts from our local Performing Arts Contest have the opportunity to compete with the best from our area/region. This area/region includes 10 counties ranging from Elkhart County all the way to Lake County.

Elkhart County 4-H won all 5 of the top placings! Great work 4-H’ers! Feel free to view all our local 4-H’ers acts on the Purdue Extension Elkhart County YouTube channel here.

Below are the results for the 2023 Area X Performing Arts Contest:

1st Abram Korenstra - Elkhart (95) performs at 4-H Round Up
2nd Sophia Grubbs - Elkhart (87) performs at 4-H Round Up
3rd Stevie Plank - Elkhart (86) performs at State Fair
4th Maya Narayan - Elkhart (84) performs at State Fair
Alternate Kaeli Borke - Elkhart (75)

Animal Science Day Camp

Are you in 3rd-8th grade? If so, and you want a hands-on experience learning more about livestock production then join us for our Animal Science SPARK Club! This will be a hands-on event open to anyone even if you are not in 4-H or a livestock club.

Flyer

Registration Form

Communications Contest

All participants will compete live, in-person, during the Elkhart County 4-H Fair on Sunday, July 23, 7:30 p.m. at the Heritage Park Stage. Entries are due July 7.

Each youth should register for the Elkhart County Communications Contest using this form. You can choose to participate in any or all of these categories: