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Presentations, Posters, Records & Judging

Providing youth leadership opportunities through public speaking
4-H clubs and programs provide important public speaking opportunities for  participating youth in grades K-12.

Youth build their speaking skills by doing  demonstrations or presentations in their clubs, at county meetings, and at fair. 

Presentations:

The following presentation resources are from Delaware and Washington State 4-H. You can use these high quality materials to help guide your presentation process.

Computer Presentation Activity Worksheet.pdf

Demonstration Score Sheet Sample.pdf

 

Posters:

4-H club members are also encouraged to create educational and 4-H promotional posters for fair. Below is a shining example of 4-H educational poster.

Several things make this a blue ribbon poster: 

  1. Clear focus
  2. Large lettering
  3. Nice graphic
  4. Colorful border
  5. Correct poster size

Recordbooks:

Jefferson County Primary Record Book

Jefferson County Record Book gr 3-12

All 9th-12th grade members need to also have the Level 2 Permanent Record and all high school juniors and seniors planning to apply for state 4-H scholarships, use the state Level 2 record book. These are available here:
WA State Recordbooks Online

Add Sheets:

JC_Cat Management Record

JC Horse Management Record

JC Individual Horse Record

JC Rabbit Management Record

National 4-H

Judging Activities

Learning to articulate the reasoning behind sound decision-making

 

Katrina Walker, 4-H leader, discusses the value of 4-H judging and the reasoning process related to it.

CLICK HERE for University of Delaware's 4-H Judging tips on how to:
  • prepare for competition
  • create a judging contest
  • do oral reasons and taking notes
  • do questions class
     
 
 
 
 
   
 

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