COLLEGE STATION – The Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation has awarded more than $2.2 million dollars in scholarships to more than 200 4-H members from throughout the state at this year’s Texas 4-H Roundup in College Station. Scholarship funds were provided by organizations and individuals across the state to help 4-H members attend the college [...]
Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu ABBOTT– The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Hill County will be conducting its annual crops tour on June 20 along the U.S. Interstate 35 corridor between Abbott and Hillsboro. “The program will include several presentations aimed at helping our local producers take a little more to the grain bin [...]
Camps to take place June 26-27 and Aug. 20-21 SAN ANTONIO — The 4-H and youth development program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Bexar County will hold two “FUNtastic” Adventure Camps this summer in San Antonio. The first camp will take place June 26-27 and the second will take place Aug 20-21. [...]
COLLEGE STATION — Students and academic advisers in the College of Agriculture and Life Science at Texas A&M University in College Station have captured many top honors this semester in campuswide categories. Eight students won the Buck Weirus Spirit Award, five were named Distinguished Graduate Students and three were chosen for the President’s Award for Academic Advising. [...]
TEMPLE — The Texas 4-H Program, in partnership with the Bell County 4-H Photography Advisory Board, will host a statewide photography workshop July 20-21 in Temple, said event coordinators. The workshop is open to 4-H members 9-18 years old and their parents. It will be held at Central Texas Christian School, 4141 W. Farm-to-Market Road 93. [...]
AUSTIN – Recently 19 members of 4-H clubs from throughout Texas had an opportunity to meet and learn firsthand from the people involved in Texas government and agriculture. The 4-H members, all Texas 4-H Livestock Ambassadors, participated in the “Texas 4-H Livestock Ambassadors at the Capitol” program in Austin specifically designed for them. Dr. Billy [...]
BROWNWOOD — The Texas 4-H Conference Center, 5600 Farm-to-Market Road 3021, Brownwood, will again offer its Mission Possible “inclusive” summer camp for youth with and without disabilities from July 8-10. “The camp is a statewide effort to engage young people with various medically diagnosed disabilities into the 4-H program,” said Dr. Darlene Locke, Texas A&M [...]
COLLEGE STATION — The Texas 4-H and Youth Development Program will present a 4-H Leadership LIVE! webcast on leadership development starting at 7 p.m. May 13 for 4-H youth, parents, volunteers and others interested in enhancing their leadership skills. The theme for this event is Women in Leadership, and the live webcast can be accessed [...]
BROWNWOOD – Registration has begun for the Horizons Camp to be held June 4-8 at the Texas 4-H Conference Center in Brownwood for Texas youth who have completed fourth through eighth grades by the end of May 2013, said the center’s director. The center is located at 5600 Farm-to-Market Road 3021. More information on the [...]
COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Fred Davies, a Texas A&M University horticulturist, will spend the 2013-2014 school year as a Jefferson Science Fellow assisting the U.S. government with foreign policy. Davies begins his 12-month fellowship in mid-August working in food security and international agriculture at the U.S. Department of State and [...]
