Anchorage

WELCOME TO ANCHORAGE 4-H!

The Anchorage District 4-H Program welcomes all youth grades K-12 to join a 4-H club that meets in your area, form a new club or jump in with 4-H sponsored camps and classes. Whether you like the great outdoors, biking, animals, or arts and crafts, it's easy and fun to get involved. Check out 4-H and find out what you stand for!

Kay Shoemaker-Howell
Anchorage 4-H Youth Development Agent
Contact: kwshoemaker@alaska.edu (907) 786-6345

Children's Victory Garden 4-H Club

Youth in Governance

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 a club around anything or everything. Find some friends who think like you, get some interested parents or adults to be leaders and get started.

4-H clubs are year round clubs. Oct 1 - Sept 30 is the official 4-H year but don't let that stop you from starting something this summer!
You can be a part of something great:

Bike repair and riding
Hiking
Cooking and Fitness
Shooting Sports
Youth in Government
Sewing and Craft classes
...and more!

Please contact me at kwshoemaker@alaska.edu with any questions or ideas for 4-H in Anchorage.

Alaska State Junior Olympics
Trap and Skeet Championship

International Wobble Trap
& International Skeet

Where?
Birchwood Recreation & Shooting Park

When?
Trap April 20th 2019
Skeet April 21st 2019

Presented By:
Birchwood Bears
Birchwood Recreation and Shooting Park

Submit all entries and payments to Birchwood Bears 4-H at 11828 Broadwater Drive, Eagle River, AK 99577. For information, call Tom Rothe at (907) 240-1717 or email tom.halcyon@gmail.com

The 4-H AK Experience Camp registration is open!!

Youth ages 11-18 are welcome to register for our fun-filled 7-day residential camp.

Learn outdoor Alaskan skills as you play, hike, camp, fish, kayak, build survival shelters, forage for wild foods and more.
Gain a new awareness about conservation issues, resource management and harvest ethics.
Experience the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines by doing Service activities, entering exhibits and running around with your friends.
Develop your leadership skills and learn to make a difference in your world! And best of all, have fun with new friendships at 4-H camp!

The camp fee is $350 for each camper. A limited number of fee waivers are available and will be granted on a needs and first come basis.

If you are in Juneau, and would like to travel by ferry with the AK.X Camp group to Haines and back, there is an additional $100 transportation fee.

If you are in Sitka, and would like to travel by ferry with the AK.X Camp group to Haines and back, there is an additional $150 transportation fee.

Register at http://bit.ly/AKXCamp

Look what We've done in Anchorage 4H

4-H at the Harding Ice Field

Youth in Governance
Navigate Juneau

There may be no better way to learn about the Alaskan legislative process than to experience it at the Capital.

Teens from across Alaska (Anchorage included!) were invited to Juneau for a week to immerse themselves in this year's proceedings. A mock legislative session allowed the teens to explore roles of lobbyists, committee chairs and constituents. Youth were also given the opportunity to meet Alaska's legislators and discuss experiences in both Juneau and their home districts. The Youth in Governance program demands much from its attendees, but that doesn't mean time isn't made for evening fun!

Information on the participant selection process can be viewed on the Youth in Governance webpage.

To learn more about this program (including scholarship opportunities) in the Anchorage District, contact Kay Shoemaker-Howell.

Rockets to the rescue!

National 4-H Science celebrated,
"Rockets to the Rescue!"

This event was open to all families and held at Valley of the Moon Park in Anchorage, on Friday, October 3.
They built rockets and shot them toward the sky!

4-H National Youth Science Day (NYSD) is an exciting, interactive learning experience that engages thousands of youth across the country in conducting the National Science Experiment.

Students built and launched their own rockets and learned about rocket science and aerospace engineering.

Salmon in the Classroom

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 in 2017!), check out the Salmon in the Classroom 4-H webpage.

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).

Youth in the Anchorage community have used the funds to offset travel costs to Juneau for the Youth in Governance Program, Cordova for their annual music camp, and more!

Don't miss out! Click here to download the informational letter and application!

WELCOME TO ANCHORAGE 4-H!

Start something!

Alaska State Junior Olympics ​Trap and Skeet Championship