Nursing Home Concert Opportunity

Come share your musical talent with Val Haven Nursing Home in Peru. There are two opportunities to perform some music or share whatever talent you have with Val Haven.

Sign up to "perform" either on Tuesday 25 January or Wednesday 26 January. The time slots are from 2-3pm. We will visit with the residents for the remaining time.

Anyone in the group is welcome to come and listen even if they prefer not to share.

You are welcome to play any instrument (including your voice), dance or recite

Fundraising Opportunity

4H has a new fund raising activity that is really simple. Bring your old printer cartridges to the 4H office and tell them you are turning them in for the recycle fund raiser. The 4H office will recycle them and receive money for everyone you turn in. You can also recycle old cell phones. If you can't get to the 4H office, please bring them to the group. Make sure to put a sticky note on it with your name so that you get credit.

Public Presentation Sign Up

Clinton County Public Presentations will be held on Saturday February 26. the registration dead-line is Feb 14, but to ensure everyone is getting a time as close to their desired time, PLEASE provide the sign up info by 31 January 2011.

First year members may do a club presentation. Please contact Melissa for more information.

To sign up, you need send Melissa the  following information:

Time slot in rank order (1-4)
9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30

Room Type
1) Nervous Presenters: You are a nervous presenter  of ANY age. You want to ask the room to clear out when it is your turn.

2) Regular: You want the regular experience with other Cloverbuds or JR/SRS.

3) Competition: (JRS/SRS only)
Option 1: Regional Horse Communications: You want to compete and possibly get selected for regionals and for state levels. You must give your presentation on a horse topic only.
Option 2: District Communications: You want to compete against other kids from 5-6 counties. You can give a presentation of ANY topic, including horse.  If you are a SR you want to go to the State level competition held at State fair--for this competition, all kids who are 13 fall under SR level.

4) Indicate if this presentation is to earn horse or small animal/livestock points. You must speak on the species to earn a specific species point. (Rabbit presentation only earns you a rabbit point)

* note you can compete in both regional and district BUT you must give your presentation twice
*you can give multiple presentations if you desire


Presentation Type and Title: 
Cloverbud, Demonstration, Illustrated Talk, Impromptu, Recitation, Dramatic Interpretation

Members who are 13 and older and have given at least 3 presentations are asked to consider being a teen evaluator.

Engineering Tech Challenge

Its time for sign up for Engineering Tech Challenge. Anyone in Grades 5-12 may participate. It is an opportunity to compete in a project that teaches the engineering design process. Clinton and Essex County will be hosting a separate event for kids in Grades 3-4

You can read more about it here: http://techchallenge.thetech.org/the_challenge.cfm

We will form teams of 2-6 kids for each of the grade groups: Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6, and Grades 7-8

FROM the TECH CHALLENGE WEB SITE:

This Year's Challenge

Create a device that can collect plastic from the ocean without harming marine life. 

Rules

• Teams can have 2-6 members.
• Each team's unassembled device must fit into a 4 X 4 X 4 foot box.
• Teams then have 2 minutes to assemble their device.
• The goal is to remove 2 (two) 2-liter bottles and 3 (three) bottle caps from the test rig in 3 minutes or less.

Learn more about the rules.

Test Rig

Your device must remove plastic from a model called a test rig. Like the real Pacific Gyre, the test rig contains both plastic trash and marine life (or, at least, models of plants and fish). It does not have water in it. You will have three minutes to remove three bottle caps and two bottles from the test rig.
Learn more about the test rig.

Judging Criteria

Judges will award points for the following:

• Device Performance-How much plastic did your device remove? Did it harm any sea life?
• Engineering Process and Journal-How well did your team document its ideas and efforts? How well did you follow the engineering design process?
• Style and Presentation-How creative were your costumes? How clear and concise were your explanations?
• Other categories to be determined on event day, such as teamwork.

To learn more about judging criteria, click here.

We will be competing via TELECONFERENCE as the competition takes place in California. We will be piggy backing on with the set-up through Essex County's 4H STEM team (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)