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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development - Agricultural
Mission: The mission of 4-h is to provide opportunities for youth to acquire knowledge, develop life skills, form attitudes, and practice behavior that will enable them to become self directing, productive, and contributing members of society.
Programs: 4-h center. Educational conference center available primarily to 4-h groups to provide training sessions, awards banquets, retreats, and workshops including technology education.
outdoor camps and state wide contests. Designed to teach youth to appreciate the outdoors, our environment, conservation, wildlife, wildlife habitat, forestry (species, identification, conservation), hunter education (marksmanship, gun safety, archery) and forage leaders.
state 4-h o-rama. Joins 4-h members from 75 counties for competition in 50 areas and to be recognized at the state level for service projects. Scholarship allows donors to present scholarship awards, governor scholarships, state horse contests, grassland, horticulture, and photography.
all other programs including: national citizenship, 4-h national congress - teaches youth about american citizenship, legislature, congressional processes, american constitution, ethnic groups, volunteerism, voting rights and process, national contest trips, livestock, poultry, and dairy.