We are looking for bold, creative, and exciting videos to help educate facilitators about how to implement 4-H science and illustrate inquiry-based learning approaches to helping youth learn and master science content. There will be PRIZES!

These are videos that adults can make for adults – the audience we are trying to reach. Please review the flyer; plan your creation and begin submitting.

If you have any questions, please contact Kirk Astroth at kastroth@cals.arizona.edu

Thanks for your anticipated participation and high-quality videos that will continue to set 4-H apart from others.

What: AGsploration Winter Institute

When/Where: February 19-21, 2011, Thendara 4-H Center, Hurlock, MD

Cost: FREE!! (Travel to/from the center on your own)

What You Will Receive: Leadership and teaching skills through workshops and fieldtrips, AGsploration gear, networking opportunities with other 4-Hers, service hours, and door prizes!!!! For flyer with more information Click Here.

What is Your Commitment? Fill out an application by December 31, 2010, attend the training in February, and make a 30 hour commitment teaching the curriculum. For application Click Here.

The AGsploration development team invites 4-H youth ages 14-18 or 4-H alumni ages 19-21 to become trained as a teen teacher for the new University of Maryland Extension's AGsploration: The Science of Maryland Agriculture curriculum at our Winter Institute on Saturday, February 19, 2011 to Monday, February 21, 2011 at the Thendara 4-H Center in Hurlock, MD. The cost of the training is free, however, you must provide travel to/from the center on your own.

At the training, team members will receive a copy of the AGsploration curriculum and a kit to aid in teaching in. As a team member, your commitment is to fill out an application and evaluation consent form, attend the AGsploration team training in February, and make a 30-hour commitment teaching and evaluating the AGsploration curriculum.

Completed applications and the evaluation consent form (project approved by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board, approval # 10-0638) are due by December 31, 2010 to April Hall Barczewski at UME-Cecil County, 200 Chesapeake Blvd, Suite 1500, Elkton, MD 21921. The AGsploration program is limited to 30 participants. Applicants will be accepted by a review process and we encourage at least one youth from every 4-H unit to apply. Applicants will be notified by mid-January if they have been accepted to attend the training. Additional information and required paperwork will be mailed once your application has been accepted.

The AGNR Holiday Party hosted at the Maryland 4-H Center last friday, December 17th was a huge success! Thank you to all who contributed and brought displays.

Happy Holidays to all from the Maryland 4-H Center!