Public Presentation Day

Public Presentations which have been held in March will now be held in January and Horsebowl and Hippology will be held in March (exact date TBD).

Please mark your calendar.
Saturday January 18 Public Presentations Day: Clinton Community College

**Thursday January 2: 4H Public Presentations Clinic--learn to give a good presentation and brush up on techniques
**Thursday January 9: 4H regular meeting --business meeting and public presentation practice in smaller groups-- I would like to have teens with lots of experience work with small groups of kids. I would also need an adult with each group.
**Thursday January 16: (optional) Service project-- share public presentations with the 3rd Age day care as well as perform or sing or just visit and sit in the audience. We can be a little flexible this day with time based on who wants to attend.

I also hope to have one of our seniors teach anyone interested in how to use presio-- the wave of the future. :-)

So now is the time to think about your topic for public presentations. If you are 13 and above and you have given 3 county level presentations, you are welcome to be a teen evaluator. As a teen evaluator, you can choose to not give a presentation but still get credit for presentations. If you are a first year family or member (Henry, Samuel, and Hannah) you can choose to do a club presentation anytime before May.

When you pick a topic-- pick something you LOVE....remember there are many types of presentations. With the new award system, when applying for project medals at the end of the year, you get a medal when you have been in a project area for AT least two years and earned the minimum number of points. You get points for giving a presentation in your project area. So you may chose to pick a presentation in an ares you are working on a medal.

Or if you are in an animal project, if you do an animal presentation, you earn a point for that animal (except for dairy cattle). You need points to show animals at fair---1 point for small animals (cats, dogs, rabbits, poultry, pets) and livestock (beef, sheep, goat, pig) and 4 points for horse/mini-horse. You also earn points when applying for a high point award for end of the year animal awards.

If you are a junior or senior in HS, you can meet the criteria by going to a college interview.

If you are a confident speaker, you may wish to try impromptu this year....you do not have to prepare--no poster no power point or presio needed. Just sign up for impromptu and show up on presentation day. You will be given three possible topics to speak about and 15 minutes to prepare. Matthew Caito did one a few years ago--he spoke about paper airplanes I think(?).