{"id":824,"date":"2021-03-01T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/?p=824"},"modified":"2021-02-16T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:13:57","slug":"mission-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/2021\/03\/mission-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Make-It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hosted since 2016, Mission Make-It: The Georgia 4-H Engineering Challenge is a non-competitive engineering event for middle school students.\u00a0 Based on extensive feedback from the Mission Make-It planning committee, I am pleased to share the upcoming timelines related to Mission Make-It:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Upcoming Virtual Engineering Opportunity:<\/u><\/strong> The March 27, 2021 MMI event at Rock Eagle 4-H Center is shifting to a virtual experience.\u00a0 On Friday, March 26, the committee will release engineering-related challenges for kids to complete.\u00a0 These asynchronous challenges could be completed in face-to-face settings (spring break, summer programs, etc.) or virtually shared for youth to complete individually.\u00a0 The final challenge will direct 4-H\u2019ers to complete a virtual jigsaw puzzle, advertising the August 21, 2021, Mission Make-It event at Rock Eagle.\u00a0 There is no timeline or expectation for these challenges to be completed.\u00a0 The intent is for youth to participate in engineering challenges and get excited about the August 2021 event. These engineering activities are a great resource for our military partners who are unable to meet with middle school youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia 4-H Engineering Challenge Series:<\/u><\/strong> Additionally, the committee will release a four-part series of engineering activities (from previous MMI events) for counties to use at their leisure.\u00a0 Each edition includes background information, best practices for teaching engineering practices with youth, career connection information, promotional materials, two engineering lesson plans, and an evaluation.\u00a0 The topics will include survival, the environment, World War One, and space exploration.\u00a0These activities are awesome for afterschool club meetings or to include in a fun 4-H Science Camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 2021 MMI Event:<\/u><\/strong> Finally, we hope you will make plans to attend our face-to-face Mission Make-It on August 21, 2021 at Rock Eagle 4-H Center.\u00a0 This event will be for 6th<\/sup>-8th<\/sup> graders (for the 2021-22 school year), and we will be releasing information, promotional materials, etc. later this spring.\u00a0 With donor support, we do plan to offer this event at a reduced cost.\u00a0 We hope this event early in the new school year can help with the recruitment and retention of middle school youth and provide a high-quality STEM experience.\u00a0This is a fun way to engage military youth in science and allows youth to venture off base to meet friends from across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above activities and events are coordinated by an innovative resource committee working to provide high-caliber STEM programming for 4-H youth.\u00a0The committee is directed by Kasey Bozeman, Extension 4-H Specialist. Please let us know if you are interested in one or all of these programs. It truly sounds like a great way to engage middle school students in STEM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission Make-It Webpage: https:\/\/georgia4h.org\/programs\/focus-areas\/agriculture-stem\/science-technology-engineering-math\/mission-make-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hosted since 2016, Mission Make-It: The Georgia 4-H Engineering Challenge is a non-competitive engineering event for middle school students.\u00a0 Based on extensive feedback from the Mission Make-It planning committee, I am pleased to share the upcoming timelines related to Mission Make-It: Upcoming Virtual Engineering Opportunity: The March 27, 2021 MMI event at Rock Eagle 4-H […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[58,38,59,16,75,17],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-h-opportunity","category-events","tag-4-h","tag-face-to-face","tag-kit","tag-science","tag-stem","tag-virtual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}