Success Story4-H Communications



4-H Communications

Author: Stacey Potts

Planning Unit: Daviess County CES

Major Program: 4-H Communications and Expressive Arts Core Curriculum

Plan of Work: Building Life Skills in Youth

Outcome: Initial Outcome

Providing youth with the ability to enhance and develop communication skills is of great importance in Kentucky.  The development of communications skills is one of the preeminent skills necessary to grow as an individual, a community member and a leader.   Using age appropriate activities selected from the approved Kentucky 4-H Communications & Expressive Arts Curriculum, educators can maximize the ability of youth to develop their writing, reading and personal communication capacities.  This in turn creates a solid foundation for positive youth development (Jones, K. R. 2006)

Daviess County 4-H sponsors a 4-H Speech Contest in the fall of each school year.  Participants include public, private and home-schooled students.  The 4-H Agent supplies each participant with the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Speak Up publication.  The participants then work at home and in class to prepare their speech.   Each classroom participating selects their top four speakers to send on to the county contest.  

This year 259 students ages 9-18 wrote and delivered a speech in their classroom.  Forty-nine advanced to the county contest.  Of the ten youth who qualified to attend the virtual District 4-H Communication Event, four chose to participate.  All four received blue ribbons and three qualified to participate in the virtual State 4-H Communications Event.  






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