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4-H Science Trainings
Are you interested in science, technology, or engineering? The 4-H Science Trainings are designed for adult and youth volunteers who are interested in creating exciting science learning opportunities back in their county or regional area! The goal of the 4-H Science Trainings is to help adult and youth volunteers gain confidence and competence in the facilitation of science learning experiences with and for young people.
Training areas include: Robotics, Aquatic Robotics, Photography/Digital Media, and Engineering Design. The trainings will offer 12 hours of hands-on learning in one of four areas listed below, and include sessions on inquiry-based learning and the science abilities. Training is an important step toward achieving the goal of increasing science literacy in young people throughout Minnesota.
Spring 2013 - science trainings overview (326 K PDF)
2013 Training session information!
Photography/Digital Media and Engineering Design
Maple Lake/Annandale at Camp Friendship
April 26-27, 2013 (Friday evening 5 p.m. through Saturday 4 p.m.)
Training for a team of 2-4 people: 2 adults, who can be joined by 1-2 youth leaders 8th grade or older who wish to help give leadership in their county, or additional adults.
- Photography - digital media training description (331 K PDF)
- Engineering design description (401 K PDF)
Registration form - due April 10
- Word document for filling out electronically (637 K DOC)
- PDF document for filling out manually (300 K PDF)
Robotics and Aquatic Robotics
Bemidji at the Hampton Inn
May 3-4, 2013 (Friday evening 5 p.m. through Saturday 4 p.m.)
Training for teams of 2 adults and 3- 5 youth who are in 6th grade or older.
- Robotics training description (299 K PDF)
- Aquatic robotics description (298 K PDF)
Registration form - due April 17
- Word document for filling out electronically (637 K DOC)
- PDF document for filling out manually (299 K PDF)
4-H Science team co-chairs: Anne Stevenson steve020@umn.edu 1-763-767-3883 Patrick Jirik pjirik@umn.edu 1-507-536-6303
