• 4-H Youth Enrollment
• 4-H Clubs
• 4-H Teen Retreat
• 4-H School Enrichment

• Babysitting Clinics
• Camping Experience
• Kidz Kamp
• Capital Days

• The Animal Canimal Club has fourteen members. This club meets in the Milford area and conducts activities relating to the animal kingdom.
  
  
• Hay-U-Horse Club consists of fourteen members. This club meets in the Milford area and conducts activities relating to horses.
  
  
• We’re 2gether in 2001 Club has eight members and meets in the Greeley area. This club conducts activities in the areas of animal and plant science.

We're 2gether
2001 Club Members

• Wildlife Club, an after-school club, met at the Wallenpaupack Elementary School. This club had seventeen members. Activities were conducted from the Wildlife Is All Around Us series.

4-Hers enjoying outdoor recreation at the Teen Retreat

School Enrichment programs were conducted within the Delaware Valley, East Stroudsburg and Wallenpaupack School Districts.

Ten teachers with a total of 242 students used the Egg to Chick (Embryology project) in classes from pre-school – fourth grade. This program is designed to increase the students knowledge of parts of the avian egg, how to manage the incubation process, development of the embryo and how to brood live chicks.

Teachers, who administered pre and post tests, reported a 10 – 30% increase in the number of correct responses given by students. Teachers felt the greatest benefits derived from this project were:

• respect and appreciation of living things
  

• following the development of the embryo to chick
  

• responsibility
  

• how fragile life can be
  

Twelve teachers with a total of 257 students used the Discovering Me project in their class. The purpose is to help youth better understand who they are and why they think, feel and behave the way they do.

Twelve teachers with a total of 250 students used the Community Development project book. This project helps youth learn about their community and how to relate more effectively in community activities, programs and organizations.

Twelve teachers with a total of 255 students used the Get Ready, Get Set, Get A Job project. Participants learned how to fill out a job application, prepare a resume, interview for a job and what types of career options are available to them.

Other program(s) introduced via school enrichment included Wild Over Work and Meet the Plants.

The 4-H Rocketry, Wildlife and Geology projects were introduced to youth during the 2000 – 2001 4-H year via other youth serving organizations such as the Boy Scouts.

During the 2000 – 2001 4-H year, a babysitting clinic was held utilizing the new Babysitting Beginnings book. Thirteen youth participated in the babysitting clinic, which was held in the Milford area.

As a result of the clinic, all of the participants felt that they were better prepared to perform their duties as a sitter. Participants said they would use the following information, acquired from the Babysitting Clinic, when dealing with younger siblings or while at a babysitting job:

Pike County 4-H'er Kyle Wolfe on the ropes course.

Camp Shehaqua**

The 4-H residential camp program is designed as a cooperative group living experience conducted in an outdoor environment. It is an experiential education program that contributes to life skill development. Campers experience and learn the social dynamics of group living in an informal, but supervised, setting.

One hundred forty three adults, counselors and campers participated in our week long camp, July 9 - 13. Pike County specifically had four adults, twenty-seven campers and three counselors attend camp.

Campers participated in crafts, shooting sports, challenge course, trust building, cooperative game activities, interaction challenges and a rocketry workshop conducted by an employee of NASA’s National Space Camp, in Alabama.

Camp evaluations showed:

	72% indicated that they learned to be more responsible for themselves and their belongings;
	73% indicated that they learned how to effectively work and get along with others in a group;
	68% indicated that they had developed self-confidence & self esteem from their experience(s) at camp
	69% indicated that they had gained leadership skills that they did not have before coming to camp;
	61% indicated that they were able to talk and/or give a demonstration in front of a group.

**Camp Shehaqua is an American Camping Associated accredited facility.

Camp Counselor Training

Three teens attended a returning Camp Counselor Training (CCT), held on June 16, at Camp Shehaqua. CCT is a program offered by the Eastern PA Camping Association and is designed to better prepare participants for their duties as a camp counselor. Some of the topics covered at CCT included: how to handle situations, understanding youth development, trust activities, the nuts and bolts of camp and games.

CCT provides future camp counselors some of the training hours required by the American Camping Association (ACA). In order to be a camp counselor, teens are required to complete 24 hours of camp related training. Pike County had three teens complete the 24 hours of training and attend Camp Shehaqua as counselors. Pike, Monroe, Lackawanna and Wayne Counties offer additional training opportunities to their teens in leadership, team building, group activities, songs, situations, games and recognizing the signs of child abuse.

Pike County 4-H'ers at the Legislative Breakfast
from Top (L - R) Beverly Bensley - 4-H Agent, Pat Pabian,
(Bottom Row) Daniela Gurian, Krista Haag, Representative
from Senator Lemmond's Office and Melissa Batalin.

This event is a citizenship development program that provides experiences for 4-H members to help them understand how state government operates and their roles as Pennsylvania citizens. This two-day event features a legislative breakfast with state lawmakers; tours of state agencies and commissions; activities to reinforce the mission of governmental agencies and county arranged meetings with legislators.

4-H’er Melissa Batalin participated in Capital Days and served on the planning committee as a Pike County representative. Daniela Gurian and Patrick Pabian were also selected to attend as delegates from Pike County.

As part of their experience, Pike County representatives met with Senator Lemmond and representatives from his office,