Congratulations for Some Recent Outstanding Club Achievements

The Mount Vernon 4-H Adventurers are recipients of the Generations United grant for $1000 to support an intergenerational gardening and cooking project they'll undertake this year.

The Krazy for K-9's Dog Training Club are recipients of the Gilbert S. McCutcheon Friend of Frying Pan Farm Park Award this year.

The Get SET Reston Club received a donation of $3000 from SRI International to support their robotics project.

The newest addition to Fairfax County 4-H, the Time for Technology Club received a $500 donation from Binary Group Inc., a $500 donation from Hatch Mott MacDonald, and a donation of 22 laptops from GAITS, Inc. to support their robotics project

Northern District Shooting Education Championship
Saturday, October 6, 2012.
Cedar Mountain Youth, Inc. range - Culpeper, VA
$10 entry fee, $5 extra for shotgun
Open to all 4-H'ers enrolled in a Shooting Sports Project
For more details and to register contact Lenah Nguyen by September 17.

Kids Tech University

October 13th and November 10th

Virginia State University

Kids Tech University is an opportunity for kids age 9 - 12 and their parents to

observe lectures by world renowned research scientists and participate in interactive hands-on activities. The topics for this year's sessions are "Computer Science in the World: From Toy Brains to Keeping Trees Healthy" and "Why Do We Care About Frog' Health?" There is a $20 registration fee for each child which includes lunch for the child and parents and a t-shirt.  Registration opens at 6 PM on September 5.  More information and registratio details can be found here. 

Check out the coverage of the 4-H Fair:

Herndon Connection

http://connectionarchives.com/PDF/2012/080812/Herndon.pdf

Fairfax Connection

http://connectionarchives.com/PDF/2012/080812/Fairfax.pdf

Vienna Connection

http://connectionarchives.com/PDF/2012/080812/Vienna.pdf

Reston Connection

http://connectionarchives.com/PDF/2012/080812/Reston.pdf

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-4-h-club-continues-traditions-at-frying-pan-farm-park/2012/08/07/ece53926-e00f-11e1-a421-8bf0f0e5aa11_story.html

If you plan on entering an exhibit into the fair please register your exhibit online here .

Please bring your exhibits to the 4H building from 3:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Friday, August 3rd and we will have tags printed for you to place on your exhibits.  For full information about entering exhibits in the 4-H Fair, please check out our 4-H Fair Catalog

 Snapshots from 2012 4-H Camp

At the camp dance

 

Land Olympics Competitions





Relaxing and enjoying the scenery





Riflery Class





Archery Class





4-H Camp Summer Staff Divas






Outdoor Living Skills Class



Low Ropes Class









Campfire time - "Ohh Great Bear!"



Herndon Horse 4-H Club



Cloverbuds take Pony Rides.



Herndon Horse members go on a trail ride.

     4-H Herndon Horse Club held two meetings this quarter and had a fun filled club event. In our first meeting, we did horsey crafts.  Because we have so many members (26), we split our meeting into two sessions with Cloverbuds coming earlier to work on horse bookmarks and Juniors and Seniors coming later to create 3-D paper horses.   The two groups came together to finalize plans for our trail ride. The next month, 18 of our club members went horseback riding.  The older members went trail riding while the younger members had pony rides in the ring.  We spent the morning enjoying the horses and having breakfast together.  A fun time was had by all!



Stephanie Sorensen



Club members make origami.



     At our last meeting, members came together to make some horsey origami.  Then Mrs. Stephenson gave us a slide show of pictures from all the events we had done all year together.  It was a lot of fun seeing all that we had accomplished as a club.  We talked about upcoming 4-H events, club officer elections for next year and portfolios.  Mrs. Stephenson gave the Juniors a 4-H horse project to work on over the summer and then every member was awarded a 4-H Herndon Horse Particpation Certificate, horse stickers and a miniature horse.  We said goodbye to Stephanie Sorensen, our senior who graduated this year. Good luck, Stephanie!





      We had two members attend 4-H congress this year: Rachel Stephenson and Caitlin Embly.  They both had a great time at congress and Rachel was elected as the 4-H Northern District Amabassador.  Congratulations, Rachel!

4-H Northern District Match

The 4-H Northern District Shooting Match has been postponed until October, date to be determined.

Fairfax Rabbit and Cavy 4-H Club

            Fairfax Rabbit and Cavy Club members have been having fun with their pets.  They have had several pet play dates in addition to regular business meetings.  The new club shirts were distributed at the May meeting.
           On June 2^nd, club members brought their pets to Flint Hill School’s Community day.  Families enjoyed petting the animals and asking questions about pet care.  On June 24^th, Club President Talia Adler supplied pets for a petting zoo at a birthday party.  At the June meeting, members worked on a scrapbook containing photos from events throughout the year.  The scrapbook will be on display at the 4-H Fair.

Hampton Horsefeathers 4-H Club

            Hampton Horsefeathers has been very busy lately.  In March, Allisa Coles and Katherine  Ellig (shown in photo) competed in a mounted games show hosted by the Lucky Bits and Spurs 4-H Horse Club.  In May, Kate Fisher presented her science fair project to the club at a meeting.  The project was about horses’ favorite flavors.

           Hampton Horsefeathers has been hard at work preparing for the 4-H Fair.  Hoping to attract more riders, they have decided to make this year’s show an open show.  They have chosen superintendents to make patterns for the horse show.  They will make stall cards for the Fair at the July meeting.  Also, Katherine Ellig was chosen as 4-H Fair Queen.