Author: Morgan Murphy
Planning Unit: Elliott County CES
Major Program: Science, Engineering, and Technology
Plan of Work: Unrelated to a specified County Plan of Work
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
When I started as a 4-H agent in August 2021, a need brought to me by volunteers and parents in the community were things to engage the homeschool youth in our county. There are limited extra curricular opportunities for youth who are not in the school system. In response, I started a 4-H homeschool club for ages 9-18. This club will do a lesson from a different program area each month and will also take educational field trips. The club started in February 2022 and had 15 youth sign up and attend the meeting. Youth learned about what fossils are, our state fossil, and did an activity where they got to make their own fossil. For the March meeting I scheduled for my homeschool club to go to the Star Theater at Morehead State University and we also go a tour of the space science center. This was a fun and educational opportunity for the kids who were able to come. By the time we had our 2nd meeting in March, we had 30 youth signed up for the homeschool club which was double the amount we started with. The parents and homeschool youth have expressed that they are so happy to have more activities for the youth be involved and to meet new friends. One parent told me at the first meeting she was so excited for her son to join because they had to just moved to the area and didn't know many people. At the first homeschool meeting I gave information on our 4-H livestock and shooting sports programs and I have had several members of the homeschool club also join those clubs. We have several youth and their families excited about 4-H in our county as a way to get their youth involved in quality programs. After our 2nd homeschool meeting at the MSU space science center, one of my homeschool club members told me she was so glad this club had started up so she could have more things to do and more friends to make. In a short amount of time, the 4-H homeschool club has reached 30 youth in 2 meetings and continues to grow.
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