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January 15, 2025
New STEP (Short-Term Exploratory Program) Club
Data to the Rescue: Penguins Need Our Help!
Register by Tuesday, January 28, 2025
 CALLING ALL YOUTH GRADES 5-8!
Join us for a STEP club & live Teleconference with Polar Scientists in Antarctica! Get to know the penguins of Palmer Research Base and dig into data to discover how climate impacts species in an icy habitat.
Sessions will meet virtually on Tuesdays in February from 2/4 through 2/25 at 4:30-5:30pm, with an in-person component on March1st. To join, please visit the link below.
✓4-H TO-DO’s!✓
4-H Winter Camp: Registration Due by Friday, January 17th, 2025, THIS FRIDAY
February 7-9, 2025
Join us for a fun-filled weekend with other 4-H’ers from Warren and Sussex Counties! Workshops, games, and challenges await you!
L.G. Cook 4-H Camp - 100 Struble Rd, Branchville, NJ 07826
Space is limited and registration is required. For more info, please visit the link below:
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4-H Agriculture Career Night: Register by Friday, January 24, 2025
Join us for 4-H Agriculture Career Night on January 29, 2025 from 6-8pm at the Ted Blum 4-H Center!
Participants will get to hear from several key guest speakers about the agriculture industry and have the opportunity to network.
This event is for 4-H Members in grades 8-13, registration is free but required, register by January 24. Attendance via Zoom available upon request.
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Prep/Cloverbud Winter BRRReakfast: Register by Saturday, January 25, 2025
February 8, 2025
8:30-10:30 AM; 4-H Center
All 4-H Prep/Cloverbud members (grades K - 3) and their families are invited!
Prep/Cloverbud Leaders are invited too!
Food, Games, Crafts & More! Free Admission.
Optional - bring a baked good to share and canned food to donate.
Contact jbrochinsky@co.somerset.nj.us with questions.
Registration is required, please visit the link below:
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Trainmasters 4-H Winter Train Show: February 1-2, 2025
TED BLUM 4-H CENTER, 310 MILLTOWN RD, BRIDGEWATER NJ
Join us for the annual Trainmasters Winter Train Show and see the incredible display the Somerset 4-H Trainmasters put together! Over 1,000 feet of track, more than 30 unique train displays, hands on displays and crafts, and all types of vendors and crafters.
Admission: [CASH ONLY!!]
Adults-$4
Children Under 12-$2
Children 2 and Under-FREE
Proceeds benefit Trainmasters' various college scholarship funds.
The event will run from 12-7pm on Saturday 2/1, and 10am to 5pm on Sunday 2/2.
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Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF) - Applications Due Monday, February 10, 2025
June 21-27, 2025.
Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF) is National 4-H Council’s premier leadership and civic engagement experience held each summer in the Washington, DC area. It is a week-long event (Sunday - Friday) for 4-H members in grades 9-12 (14-19 years old). The program is based on the principle that democracy requires skills and strategies that must be learned and practiced, and it teaches participants to be active, responsible citizens and leaders. The program utilizes Washington, DC as a working classroom to learn about the government, citizenship and civic engagement and provides hands-on opportunities for our teens to promote “Better Citizens Today, Better Leaders Tomorrow." The New Jersey delegates will travel by coach bus for the week and will experience all that Washington, DC has to offer. We will join approximately 250 4-H members representing a variety of states.
To apply, visit the link below:
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Tricky Tray – Donations Due: February 14, 2025
Is your club helping? Will your name be on the board in the lobby? The 4-H Tricky Tray Amazon Wish List is up and running. The easiest way to help!
All are asked to donate for this 4-H Association Fundraiser for the maintenance of 4-H building that all clubs get to use for FREE.
Who can donate: Clubs/Parents/Individuals/Businesses Tickets for Tricky Tray go on sale February 1, 2025. To get the link for tickets and for more info please email: trickytray4h@gmail.com
Actual Tricky Tray event date: March 2nd
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Spring Craft Show: Saturday, March 22, 2025
10am-4pm
Join us at the 4-H Center for the Spring Craft Show!
There will be handmade crafts, local artisans, refreshments, a petting zoo, and visit with Alice and her Wonderland friends!
Now accepting vendor applications! Applications due by March 1st. For more info, please visit the link below:
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4-H T-Shirt Fundraiser
Somerset County 4-H members know that if you work hard, have fun, believe in yourself, dream big, and never give up, anything is possible!
Help support our 4-H Arts Clubs and buy a T-Shirt!
T-shirts are light blue and available in youth small & medium and adult small – 2XL.
Cost: $10.00 donation to support the Arts & Sciences Clubs. Contact Annette at smutko@co.somerset.nj.us to reserve a shirt.
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 Did you know that "The Weekly" can be found on our website under the "Resource" tab? Youth members can access The Weekly this way or directly subscribe. Parents/Guardians can add a member's email address to ZSuite or contact the office to request to be added to the distribution list.
To learn more about Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County, as well as 4-H Youth Development, visit us online at this link. Our address is Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County / 310 Milltown Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 / 908-526-6644.
Cooperating Agencies: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Boards of County Commissioners. Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of the Rutgers New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station, is an equal opportunity program provider and employer.
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