wELCOME TO Anchorage 4-H!
The Anchorage District 4-H Program welcomes all youth grades K-12 to join a 4-H club or to form a new one that meets in your area. Whether you like horses, arts and crafts or science, it's easy and fun to get involved in 4-H. Check out 4-H and find out what you stand for!
Marianne Kerr
Anchorage District 4-H Youth Development Faculty
UAF Cooperative Extension Service
Contact: mlkerr@alaska.edu
Kay Shoemaker Howell
4-H and Youth Development Faculty
Science and Natural Resource Education
UAF Cooperative Extension Service
Contact: kwshoemaker@alaska.edu
Marianne Kerr
Anchorage District 4-H Youth Development Faculty
UAF Cooperative Extension Service
Contact: mlkerr@alaska.edu
Kay Shoemaker Howell
4-H and Youth Development Faculty
Science and Natural Resource Education
UAF Cooperative Extension Service
Contact: kwshoemaker@alaska.edu
Salmon in The sky: the eggs are off!
Every year, classrooms across Alaska participate in the Salmon in the Classroom program through Alaska 4-H and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
This innovative, science-based program allows schools to raise salmon from the egg to the fry stage in classroom incubators. Through participation in the project, students learn about the life cycle and biology of Pacific salmon species, their habitat requirements, responsible angling techniques for catching them and ways to protect Alaska’s valuable wild salmon stocks for future generations.
This year's salmon eggs (raised and packed for shipment at the William Jack Hernandez Fish Hatchery in Anchorage) took to the skies recently and journeyed to Alaskan communities near and far.
For more information (especially if you'd like to participate next year!), check out the Salmon in the Classroom 4-H webpage.
This innovative, science-based program allows schools to raise salmon from the egg to the fry stage in classroom incubators. Through participation in the project, students learn about the life cycle and biology of Pacific salmon species, their habitat requirements, responsible angling techniques for catching them and ways to protect Alaska’s valuable wild salmon stocks for future generations.
This year's salmon eggs (raised and packed for shipment at the William Jack Hernandez Fish Hatchery in Anchorage) took to the skies recently and journeyed to Alaskan communities near and far.
For more information (especially if you'd like to participate next year!), check out the Salmon in the Classroom 4-H webpage.
Pillow Patrol |
Members of the community come together annually to participate in the 4-H sponsored Pillow Patrol at the Anchorage Extension Office. Visitors create pillowcases out of donated fabric and the finished products are given to local youth in the foster care system. Pillowcases create a colorful place to lay your head and make handy bags for storing personal belongings. Kids in the foster system are able to choose their favorite colors and designs from the hundreds of pillowcases that volunteers create for them. This event is for sewers and non-sewers alike! Mark your calendars for 2015! Pillow Patrol is always held the weekend before Martin Luther King Day (a national day of service). The next Extension Pillow Patrol will be held on Saturday January 17, 2015. |
4-H on Base4-H was out with the JBER Two Rivers Youth Center recently for an "Upcycle" workshop: they turned pop tops into something wearable!
It was a great opportunity for kids on base to meet up AND get in on the Maker Movement. The Maker Movement challenges us to look at the items all around and re-purpose or re-invent them! If you're a family on base that would like more information about Youth Center activities, follow the link below! |
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Interested in 4-h Scholarships?
 Cordova 4-H Music Camp
Anchorage 4-H has received a generous donation that will be used to fund scholarships for 4-H members.
These funds must be used to attend a 4-H program (either for program fees or, in the case of travel away from our District, for travel costs). Interested? Click here to download the informational letter and application! |
Start something!
Form a 4-H club: the sky is the limit.
What do you like to do? 4-H is unique—you can form around anything or everything. Find some friends who think like you, get some interested parents or adults to be leaders and get started. It’s not too soon to think about 4-H for the next school year! You can be a part of something great:
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