Robin Schamber 4-H & Youth Development Educator, Sublette County University of Wyoming

It is official! Its fair month. I always wonder what great ad-vice I can pass on to exhibi-tors, parents and leaders this time of year. To me the most important part of fair is not the end result or ribbon, but the chance to see all the great progress everyone has made in their projects. Its often tempting during the heat of a contest to get caught up in how one places, how judges judge and how unfair things may seem when the result isn't what you were hoping for.

The reality is that many of our youth spend countless hours and months working on an their projects and learning a great amount along the way. I would be willing to bet that is that process of learning along the way and working on their projects that they remember in 15 years, rather than who was the Grand Champion or who won a blue ribbon based on one judges opinion on one day.

Keeping that in mind, I think my advice for the most enjoy-able fair for everyone is to keep a positive attitude and to encourage behavior that ex-

Robin Schamber—4-H & Youth Educator, Sublette County Cooperative Extension Office

Sublette County 4-H newsletter

JULY 2011

hibits gracious professionalism by all. So what exactly is gracious professionalism? It’s a great phrase which was coined by First as a core value they wish to see in their com-petitors in their robotics competi-tions. It means to win and lose with graciousness and professional-ism. It means that when a contest is over, everyone congratulates one another with sincerity regardless of whether they agree with the results or not. It means that exhibitors thank the judges, show help and the volunteers and that parents and volunteers demonstrate respect by refraining from casting negative comments about other exhibitors, judges or volunteers.

Finally, for all the parents out there, remember to treasure this opportunity with your children. Think about how you can send your children into interview judg-ing or the show ring with confi-dence and good humor rather than stress. You can help create good positive memories and experiences by:

Making sure your children know that win or lose, you love them

Being honest with yourself about your youth, their project and their potential

Refrain from continuously coaching your kid as they head to the show ring. Let them have some time to think for themselves and prepare them-selves

Gracious Professionalism

Teach your kids to have fun and enjoy the competition while trying to constantly improve

Try not to live your life through your kids. Most like-ly they have very different abilities, interests and atti-tudes then you

And finally, don’t tell your kids that winning doesn’t count, but do teach them to have a healthy competitive attitude. Winning is an important goal, but winning at all costs is stupidity.

Remember, have fun, play hard and compete with gracious pro-fessionalism.

Leaders: Ever wonder if

you make a difference? I

received this great note

after one of the Big Piney

quilt camps….

“Good Morning Robin, KUDOS to Donna Shafer, Deanne Bradley, Irene Steel and everyone else that helped out during the quilt-ing camp. Rylee had a won-derful time and made a beautiful quilt. I can see now why "quilters" get hooked on that quilting!!!”

Kudos for sure and a testament to some of the great work you all do!

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UPCOMING EVENTS and IMPORTANT DATES…. July 1st– fair books will be out!!!

July 15th– Livestock seller agreements, biographies and photos due to Extension Office

See page 5 for fair schedule of events for 4-H shows

Beef Clipping & Showmanship Field Day - We will be clipping steers and then

work on showmanship afterwards. Sunday, July 10th 2 p.m. until finished –

Please come with your steers washed & clean so they are ready to clip by 2

p.m.

Club Meetings… and notes..

Portfolios

Due

September

12th, 2011!

Poultry Project Members... The Wingears will be meeting every Monday @ 5 pm at the fair

grounds until fair to help the kids work with their rabbits and chick-ens. All members welcome.

Tayler Wright gives her photog-

raphy demonstration!

Attention all dog, cat, horse and livestock project members

New health inspection procedure for fair…….. Please remember that ALL 4H and FFA ANIMALS (this includes horses and dogs) that are to be

exhibited at fair MUST have a health inspection by an accredited veterinarian within 7 days BE-

FORE the start of fair. Dr. Lisa Jones will be available at the following times and places for this

purpose. Please plan to attend one of the following or make arrangements with your veterinari-

an.

Big Piney, Wednesday July 20 from 4p-8p at Fair Grounds

Pinedale, Thursday July 21 from 4p-8p at Rodeo Grounds

La Barge, Saturday July 23 from 5p-7p at Jones Ranch/Vet Clinic Questions/Concerns Contact Lisa Jones, DVM (307)386-2309 or the Extension Office 367-4380.

Right: Teagan

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pudding during

the amazing

race at the an-

nual 4-H camp

at White Pine!

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“That’s not fair” has been said by every

person sooner or later because every-

one does not get the same thing. Help

members learn how situations deter-

mine what is fair. Have members decide

if the following situations are fair. Dis-

cuss each person’s feelings about the

statement:

At home:

Your older brother has a later bed-

time than you do

Your sister has to do more chores at

home because she is older

At school:

A child with special needs has a

teacher’s aide to help them all day

First graders get 10 minutes of

homework a night and kinder-

gartners don’t have any

In 4-H:

4-H Club Activity

Introduce the club to these basic notions of fairness:

Fairness is treating eve-ryone the same according to the rules.

Fairness is giving every-one the same chance to win.

Tell the members Everyone who says, “Hello, it’s nice to see you,” will get a treat. Give everyone who says it a treat, and ask: Did I follow my rule and give everyone a treat?”

Then say: Everyone who puts their hand on their head gets a treat. Give a

treat to only one child who has done this. Ask: Was I being fair? Why? When they answer, say: You’re right. I didn’t play by the rules. Give everyone a treat.

Next say: Here’s a treat for everyone with brown hair, because I like brown hair. Hand out the treats and ask the members: Was I fair? Why? Get their an-swers and say You’re right. I goofed again! I didn’t give everyone the same chance to win. I only picked people with brown hair. I’d better correct my mistake. Give treats to the children who don’t have brown hair.

Then tell the members: Eve-ryone who can say, “Six slimy slugs suddenly slid into the sludge,” gets a treat. Give a treat to all who can manage the sentence. Ask: Was I fair? Why? Get their responses. Ask: What situa-tions might exist that would make this expectation un-fair?

Ask: What do we do in our 4

-H club that makes sure eve-

ryone is treated fairly?

What do we do that seems

unfair? How could we change

(fill in the blank) to make it

fair?

Taken from the CHARACTER

COUNTS! Good Ideas Book

Fairness in 4-H

Does fair always mean being

equal?

Character

Counts

Fairness

Clover Connection

Head

Think about what is fair

before making a rule

Heart

Show you care by treat-

ing everyone fairly

Hands

Help one another by sharing

responsibilities

Health

Do your heart good and

be just to others

July 2011

Like this activity? Find more like it in the “Good Ideas Book” at your local Extension Office

―Fairness is never

guaranteed, but a person of

character will never fail to

grant it.‖ Duane Hodgin

www.floresville.isd.tenet.edu

A beginning 4-H member has

help fitting their animal for

the show

All members get to choose

what type of treat they will

bring to the 4-H club meet-

ing

Source: SDSU Cooperative

Extension Service CHARACTER

COUNTS! Activity Quickies

8 Essential Elements of Youth Development

Concept: Mastery

Essential Element: Opportunity for Mastery Mastery is the building of knowledge skills and attitudes and the demonstration of the

competent use of this knowledge and skill by a proficient practitioner. The level of mas-

tery depends on the developmental ability (ages and stages) of the individual or youth.

The development of mastery is a process that occurs over time. All youth want to be good

at something. Projects and activities in 4-H are the vehicles we use to help youth develop

mastery and competence.

What Does this Look Like in a Club? Members grow in projects that capture their interest

Youth eventually assist or mentor others in the same interest area or skill

Youth demonstrate what they have learned and the skill they have developed.

How do we support this Element in our clubs? Work with youth to help them establish realistic, challenging and achievable goals. Provide opportunities for youth to practice and demonstrate skill to others. Allow time for youth to reflect on successes, setbacks, growth, and pride. Plan developmentally appropriate activities and accommodate diverse learning styles. Ensure that all programs have a step-wise progression of difficulty and challenge. Provide numerous opportunities for youth to serve as teachers of others. Provide youth with training in how to teach others effectively.

Character Counts! Connection

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allow-

Developing trust depends on the op-

portunities members have to master

learning about their projects

Gain respect letting yourself and

other members master their projects.

Demonstrate Responsibility by mak-

ing sure you master your project so

that you can teach others about your

project.

Be Fair to yourself as well as others

by allowing yourself to master pro-

jects and teach others about them.

Care about yourself and others by

mastering projects so that you can

teach about them.

Pursue the “common good” by mas-

tering your topics and sharing

knowledge with others.

Mastery Activity/Ice Breaker

1. Split your club into groups of 3 or 4.

2. Give each group a research topic and tell

them to master the project in ten minutes.

3. After ten minutes has passed ask each group

to present their findings about the topic.

4. Have other groups ask questions about topics

that the group is presenting.

5. Ask the entire group reflection questions af-

ter every group has presented.

How much of your topic did you master in ten

minutes? Would it have been easier in a longer

amount of time?

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Mountain West Horse Camp 2011: Horse camp included lots of fun and participants from Teton,

Sublette and Lincoln counties. Pictured above, Jayne Thomp-

son teaches showmanship while right, Mary Jane Kleven co-

vers grooming techniques and UW’s Amy McClean discusses

horse nutrition with the group. Thanks to all the volunteers

that helped make this happen and to Nancy Wiebe for the great

Dutch oven cooking and Hunter Hack instruction

Beef Clinic 2011!

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Applications now available online for National Congress

and 4-H State Leadership Team

*Applications are due July 15th *Interviews will be in Douglas

on Friday, August 19th *Winners will be announced at

Fashion Revue awards on Fri-day, August 19th

4-H Camp FUN!!!!

Above: team-

building fun

through skits.

Left Leader-

ship team

member Jenny

Beiermann

leads a name

game

Left:

Team-

building

and sci-

ence fun

Left: Mark Kroeger vol-

unteers for archery

skills at camp and right

Jessie Conner leads the

engineering/design ac-

tivity.

Lower left: campers

learn to sew fleece hats

and right campers

learned about fairness

and caring through a

lunch activity!

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Shooting Sports County Shoot Results…..

Juniors

Grand Champion: Jed Johnson Score 206

Reserve Champion: Sam Johnson Score 64

Juniors

Grand Champion: Dalin Hughes Score 225

Reserve Champion: Nathan Lee Score 196

Purple Ribbon: Tegan Hughes Score 154

Seniors

Grand Champion: Justin Lee Score 218

Special Thanks to Jim Johnson for a great year. We appreciate your volunteer efforts with the county muzzleloading program.

Junior Division: Class A Bow:

Grand Champion: Trevor Mortisch : 201

Reserve Champion: Alyson Langlois: 101 (1x)

Junior Division: Class C Bow:

Grand Champion: Zane Meisner: 235 (1x)

Junior Division: Class D Bow:

Grand Champion: Teagan Pennock: 297

Reserve Champion: Jeffrey Langlois: 274

Purple Ribbons:

Cole Redmond: 270

Palmer Klaren: 265

Garett Schamber: 251

Chance Stevie: 245

Blue Ribbon:

Allyson Winkleman: 111

Intermediate Division: Class B Bow

Grand Champion: Nathan Lee: 239 (1x)

Purple Ribbons: Perri Meeks: 163 (1x)

Kyle Walton: 159 (1x)

Blue Ribbons: Dustin Burnside: 120 (1x)

Courtney Meisner: 117

Hannah Peterson: 112

Chett Peterson: 100 (1x)

Emmah Peterson: 98 (1x)

Intermediate Division: Class D Bow:

Grand Champion: Kaylum Thayne: 426 (20x)

Reserve Champion: Sid Fredrickson: 399 (11x)

Purple Ribbons: Dawson Hoover: 339 (6x)

McKenzie Davison: 335 (1x)

Cody Green: 224 (1x)

Ryan Keiter: 327 (6x)

Blue Ribbons: Thomas Mitchell: 299 (5x)

Dylan Shaw: 274 (3x)

Shilo Thayne: 263 (5x)

Justin Winkleman 216 (1x)

Jeffrey Sammons 196 (3x)

Senior Division: Class B Bow:

Grand Champion: Ryen Walton: 171 (1x)

Reserve Champion: Cody Burnside: 148 (1x)

Senior Division: Class C Bow:

Grand Champion: Justin Lee: 275 (2x)

Senior Division: Class D Bow:

Grand Champion: Jake Dennis: 412 (16x)

Reserve Champion: Jep Richie: 410 (17x)

Purple Ribbons: Heather Owens: 407 (14x)

Ethan Wolaver: 406 (16x)

Talon Faler: 399 (17x)

Devon Richie: 381 (5x)

Blue Ribbons: David Rule: 358 (9x)

Tyler Owens: 355 (6x)

Nikki Wadsworth 348 (6x)

Brookely Schamber 331 (8x)

Muzzleloading

County Archery Shoot

Juniors Intermediates above and seniors right

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County Shotgun Results….

16 yard singles Handicap Overall

Juniors (8-10 yrs) Placing Score Placing Score Placing Score

Jedidiah Johnson Grand Champion 31 Grand Champion 38 Grand Champion 69

Kade Bacon Reserve champion 17 Reserve champion 16 Reserve champion 33

Intermediate (11-13 yrs)

JD Fear Grand Champion 40 Grand Champion 38 Grand Champion 78

Conor Sullivan purple 34 purple 36 Reserve champion 70

Cody Green Reserve champion 36 purple 31 purple 67

Jeffrey Sammons purple 31 purple 36 purple 67

Terrell Hunter blue 29 Reserve champion 37 purple 66

Nathan Lee purple 30 purple 33 purple 63

Scott Noble purple 33 blue 28 purple 61

Dawson Hoover purple 32 blue 27 purple 59

Thomas Mack purple 30 blue 25 blue 55

Ryan Keiter purple 30 blue 24 blue 54

Guthrie Sturman blue 27 blue 26 blue 53

Tyler Moritsch blue 29 blue 23 blue 52

Kyle Walton blue 24 blue 26 blue 50

Kyle Bacon blue 23 blue 24 blue 47

Perri Meeks red 21 red 13 red 34

William Shafer red 17 red 17 red 34

Senior (14 and up)

Jacob Dennis Grand Champion 46 Grand Champion 44 Grand Champion 90

Talon Faler purple 43 Reserve champion 38 Reserve champion 81

Baylee Colton Reserve champion 44 purple 32 purple 76

Cody Burnside purple 39 purple 35 purple 74

Devon Richie purple 39 blue 30 blue 69

Justin Lee blue 37 purple 31 blue 68

Ryen Walton blue 35 blue 25 red 60

Jeptha Richie blue 33 blue 22 red 55

Thank you volunteers; Tex Wil-

liams, Jim Johnson, Chris Sulli-

van and Gary Bacon for a great

year!

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Congratulations to all the

Showcase Showdown par-

ticipants for their out-

standing representation

of Sublette County 4-H! Showcase Showdown 2011 Results: Rocket Launch: Juniors: 5th place Colton Quirk Most challenging design: Joe Anspach

3rd place Garett Schamber Most innovative design: Garett Schamber

Megan Anspach—1st place in 2 liter water rocket launch!

Intermediates: 1st place– William Shafer Most challenging design: William Shafer

Best Presentation: William Shafer

2nd place team rocket: William Shafer, Tate Hughes, Blade Bray

Seniors: 2nd place– Matthew Shafer Best Presentation: Matthew Shafer

Most Innovative Design-Matthew Shafer

1st place Team Rocket: Matthew Shafer, Cody Heseltine and Howard Talbott

Matthew Shafer– 2nd place 2 liter water rocket launch

Produce Judging: Presentations Contest: Juniors: 10th place overall Garett Schamber Seniors: 7th place overall Jenny Beiermann

6th place overall McKenna Quirk

Seniors: 2nd place in placings Brookely Schamber Horse Judging: 5th place in reasons Brookely Schamber Juniors: 5th place in placings McKenna Quirk

10th place overall Brookely Schamber 10th place overall McKenna Quirk

Seniors: 10th place overall Brookely Schamber

Robotics:

Juniors: Colton Quirk 5th place construction Dog Skill-a-thon: Colton Quirk 2nd place Sumo Juniors: 1st place Garett Schamber

Intermediates: William Shafer—2nd place construction Seniors: 1st place Jenny Beiermann

William Shafer– 5th place Sumo

Seniors: Matthew Shafer– 1st place construction

Matthew Shafer– 3rd place Sumo

Matthew Shafer– 3rd place Maze contest

Matthew and William Shafer teach a rocket

workshop to 4-Hers from across the state at

Showcase Showdown!

Way to Go Showcase

Participants!

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Important Reminders for Fair…. See page 2 for NEW health check requirements…

Be sure to check all entry deadlines and make sure to get your entries in ON

TIME!

All exhibit hall entries can now be done online at: http://sublet.fairmanager.com/ or entry

forms may be dropped off at the Extension office in Pinedale or mailed to PO Box

579 Pinedale.

See page 5 for a schedule of important 4-H events

Livestock seller agreements are due by July 15th!!!

Due to the schedule changes with county fair this year, we will have NO STATE

FAIR Meeting during county fair. State Fair meetings will be in Big Piney on Tues-

day August 2nd at 6:00pm at the Exhibit Hall and in Pinedale on Wednesday Au-

gust 3rd at 6pm at the Extension Office. THESE MEETINGS ARE MANDATO-

RY FOR ANYONE WISHING TO REPRESENT SUBLETTE COUNTY AT THE

WYOMING STATE FAIR!

Portfolios Due

September 12th,

2011!

Left: Livestock clinic and jackpot steer show!

Matthew Shafer demonstrates

his robot to the judges

McKenna Quirk and Megan

Anspach prepare for the

horse judging contest.

Below: Colton Quirk shows

off his rocket at Showcase

Showdown!

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4-H The Power of YOUth!

4-H The Power of

YOUth!

ITS FAIR TIME!!!

FAIR ENTRIES FOR EXHIBIT HALL ITEMS MAY

NOW BE DONE ONLINE AT: : http://sublet.fairmanager.com/

BEGINNING JULY 1ST!! OR ENTRIES MAY BE DELIV-

ERED OR MAILED TO THE EXTENSION OFFICE AS IN

THE PAST.

Don’t forget to check all entry deadlines!

PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THE NEWSLETTER FOR

ALL THE INFORMATION PERTAINING TO FAIR.

See you there July 22nd-30th!

Portfolios and Secretary/

Treasurer books are Due

September 12th, 2011!