{"id":166,"date":"2019-08-05T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/?p=166"},"modified":"2019-04-19T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:32:08","slug":"georgia-4-h-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/2019\/08\/georgia-4-h-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia 4-H Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>What is Georgia 4-H?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe mission of Georgia 4-H is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills, and forming attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, productive and contributing members of society. This mission is accomplished, through hands-on learning experiences, focused on agricultural and environmental issues, agriculture awareness, leadership, communication skills, foods and nutrition, health, energy conservation, and citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring and discovering, encouraging and challenging, that&#8217;s what Georgia 4-H is all about. 4-H&#8217;ers are known for sharing their research-based knowledge and technology to people where they live and work. 4-H combines federal, state, and local expertise and resources.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Who do I contact to learn more?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, Extension faculty members based on the campus of the University of Georgia and in most Georgia counties work directly with adult and teen volunteer leaders to implement the 4-H program at the local level. For more information about Georgia 4-H, contact your local county Extension Office or the Georgia State 4-H office.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Core 4-H Programs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4-H County and Club Meetings<\/strong><br \/>\nHands-on projects for kids in a positive environment where they receive guidance from adult mentors.<br \/>\n<strong>4-H Environmental Education<\/strong><br \/>\nHands-on learning in Georgia&#8217;s outdoor classroom.<br \/>\n<strong>4-H Livestock Program<\/strong><br \/>\nLearn responsibility through raising and showing livestock.<br \/>\n<strong>4-H Project Achievement<\/strong><br \/>\nProject Achievement serves to showcase 4-H&#8217;ers work and success.<br \/>\n<strong>4-H Summer Camp<\/strong><br \/>\nAdventure, friendship and fun for ages 9 and up.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cite:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about 4-H or to access the original posting of the above information go to <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/topic-areas\/4-h-youth-development.html\">extension.uga.edu\/topic-areas\/4-h-youth-development.html <\/a><\/p>\n<p>*post is taken from the University of Georgia Extension Website:<a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\">extension.uga.edu<\/a> and was not written by Laura Goss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/files\/2018\/11\/4H_logo-288x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}