Projects
4-H activities are great fun, but their purpose is not just entertainment. It's teaching skills and values through putting them into practice.
The core 4-H activities revolve around projects. 4-H has both individual and group projects.
Club members choose from a wide range of individual projects, based on their interests and the availability of a knowledgeable adult in the community to serve as a mentor/leader (matching facilitated through clubs). Through these projects, members set goals, learn the skills needed to achieve goals, and exhibit/demonstrate their skills at events like county fairs, speaking contests and other competitions.
Project Categories:
- Ag Mechanics Welding
- Agronomy
- Astonomy
- Beef
- Building Block Engineering
- Civic Engagement
- Communications
- Computer Science
- Dairy Cattle
- Dairy Goats
- Dog
- Electric and Renewable Energy
- Entomology
- Environmental Science
- Family Studies
- Fiber Arts
- Foods & Nutrition
- Forestry
- Geology
- Health & Wellness
- Horse
- Horticulture & Landscape Design
- Leadership
- Meat Goats
- Performing Arts
- Pets
- Photography
- Poultry
- Rabbits
- Reading Adventures
- Rocketry/Aerospace
- Robotics
- Self Determined
- Sewing and Textile Design
- Sheep
- Shopping in Style
- Shooting Sports
- Small Engines
- Swine
- Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
- Veterinary Science
- Visual Arts
- Wildlife
- Woodworking
Members are also involved in group projects in their clubs, which usually revolve around community service or learning how to lead/run groups or meetings.
Karrie Van Winkle
4-H Youth Development Agent
309 S Fossil
Russell, KS 67665
785-483-3157
karrievan@ksu.edu