• Becoming a global leader: Results from a youth survey

    Published on February 7, 2012
    What skills do youth believe they need to become a leader in a globalized world? The answers, from 4-H youth, offer suggestions for constructing educational opportunities in global, cultural, leadership and citizenship education.

  • Allegan County Puts a New Twist on 4-H Science Blast

    Published on February 3, 2012
    The first monthly 4-H "Animal Science Blast" - part of the I Know MI Numbers science-literacy initiative - was held January 24, 2012 at the Otsego District Public Library.

  • Cool fossils! Students bring geology to life

    Published on February 3, 2012
    Digging Rocks! Students from Alpena Public Schools help to create a community geology exhibit promoting school and community learning and tourism development opportunities through the “cool fossils” of northeast Michigan.

  • Local students promote coastal tourism and put Negwegon State Park on the map

    Published on February 3, 2012
    Alcona high school students take on a three-year project with the Department of Natural Resources, Michigan Sea Grant, and other partners to develop interpretive signs for Negwegon State Park to document the history and the park’s natural resources.

  • My Sheep and Pigs Caused a Revolution

    Published on January 11, 2012
    4-H'er Nate Seese saw the need for high-quality protein at a Byron Center food pantry that helps feed at least 250 families, and decided to find a way to help.

  • Michigan 4-H Program Celebrates with Free MSU Basketball Tickets

    Published on November 29, 2011
    On January 15, 2012, the stands at the MSU Breslin Center will be even greener than usual as up to 5,000 extra fans gather to celebrate the Michigan State University Extension 4-H Youth Development program.

  • 2011 4-H Great Lakes and Natural Resources Campers Make Important Discovery

    Published on October 25, 2011
    While contributing to a coastal inventory, this year's 4-H Great Lakes and Natural Resources Camp (GLNR) participants discovered a federally and state-threatened plant.

  • Impact = 1 Day, 2 Clubs, 27 Volunteers, 88 Trees

    Published on October 18, 2011
    Members from the North Central 4-H Club and the 4-H Country Kids Club, their parents, volunteer leaders and local Master Gardeners showed up at the new Montcalm County 4-H Fairgrounds, where they spent the day planting, mulching and watering trees.

  • Improved literacy is hoped-for result of half-million book give-away

    Published on September 28, 2011
    The Lansing warehouse bulged with books of every size, for youth of all ages. Vehicles from all over the state steadily pulled up to the overhead doors and filled every space in the vehicle with boxes of "paper gold" better known as books.

  • 4-H youth embark on a "Revolution of Responsibility"

    Published on September 28, 2011
    Feeding the hungry. Watching over our lakes. Creating new businesses. You might think these are things for which our politicians are taking responsibility. But the group stepping forward to say, "We are," isn't made up of legislators. They're kids.