STEM Stories

Growing the Maker Movement in California 4-H

  From November 1 to November 5, Nikitha Fernandes, Santiago Piva, Fiona Reyes, and Curtis Ullerich attended the National Youth Maker Summit in Maryland. We attended this conference to reconnect with 4-H'ers who we met at the Computer Science...

CA 4-H Horticulture Team Places 1st, 2nd & 3rd in National Competition

Are you interested in plants? Or perhaps you'd simply like to learn a bit more about horticulture? Then you should consider trying out for the California 4-H Horticulture Team! Every year, there's a horticulture contest at State Field Day at UC Davis....

Yuba and Sutter County 4-H’ers Participate in MZAD Bio-security Research Project

Youth from 4-H programs in Yuba and Sutter counties participated in the recently-completed Mitigating Zoonotic and Animal Disease (MZAD) Project by the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR). As part of this...

California 4-H Western Heritage team goes to Montana

This year, for the first time ever, a 4-H Western Heritage team from California attended the National 4-H Western Heritage Conference and Championship Shoot, held August 1 – 3, 2017 in historic Fort Benton, Montana. Seven 4-H members from Kern...

A true engineer - 4-H'er Amanda Cantwell

Editor's note: Today is "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" and we'd like to highlight a 4-H'er who is already an engineer! On February 7, Amanda Cantwell participated in the 2017 Imperial County Science Fair.  Her project, Piano Stairs, won...

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