4-H and Youth

Goal

The goal of 4-H youth programing is to provide opportunities for youth to experience life skills, practice them and use them throughout their lifetime.  Through the experiential learning process used in 4-H, youth internalize the knowledge and gain the ability to apply the skills appropriately.

Life skills emphasized in 4-H program.

• Making decisions
• Solving problems
• Relating to others
• Planning and organizing
• Learning to learn
• Leading self and others
• Relating to change and apply science and technology
• Communicating with others

Five steps of experiential learning process:

1. Do:   activity
2. Share:  what happened, results and feelings
3. Process:  analyze experience and reflect to determine what was most important
4. Generalize:  personalize experience, determine importance and apply to real life
5. Apply:  determine how to apply what was learned to a similar or different situation
   

The 4-H Motto is to "Make the Best Better."

The 4-H Emblem is the four leaf clover with an "H" on each leaf. 

These H's stand for Head, Hands,Heart, and Health; the training and proper care of which will be the best assets any person can possess.