2008/2009 Projects

 

Project Number

Title & Description

Age

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  BEADING & JEWELRY :

Leader: H. Davis & A. Davis

Variety of projects depending on interest and ability. Each project may take more than one meeting to complete. Members will need patience and good hand-eye coordination. Focus on projects that members will want to wear themselves, or give as a gift or show at the Fair.

10+ 2nd Thur
 

Bicycle Plus

Leader: Keith Montgomery

10+ 3rd Wed
 

Camp Academy- County Project

Leader: Jim Bennett

Must be 14 or older, Help with leading the camp.. And many other things. must call leader for more information. Meets a the Farm Bureau in Livermore 4th Wed of each month. starts on Oct 26th.

 

14+ 4th Wed 7-8:30pm (Farm Bureau) Livermore
       
 

Citizenship- County Project

Leader: Carol Crossett

Studey Leadership and service, history, culture, issues, the citizen's role, natural resources and human ecosystems, and personal development and responsibilities, County-Wide Project meets in Livermore at the Farm Bureau

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13+ 3rd Tuesday of Oct, Jan, Mar, May
 

Canning/Jelly Making

Leader: Heidi Davis

9+  
 

Creative Chemistry101: Cooking (Foods/Nutrition)

Leader :Elaine Vallecillo-Miller

8+ Sat or Sun
 

Dog Care & Training

Leader:  Sherri Nitzat
Asst Leader: Julie Colglazier

This project will focus on dog care and basic training.  You will learn how to think like a dog to be a better trainer.  You will practice controlling voice tones and body language as well as command and correction timing. You will lean how to avoid teaching your dog to misbehave, plus all the basic obedience commands, grooming and general care.
 

9+ One Tue Evening & One Sunday
  Fine Arts: (Self Determined)

Leader: Needs a Leader

Fine arts will cover mainly drawing and painting, but I will happily included any medium not covered in available Bayside proect list, so youth will beable to enter in fair.

Open Varies
 

Lace Making

Leader: Pat Wootton

Learn to make lace by hand. First project will be a slow in the dark snake book marker. Additional projects will be a pony, fish or sea horse.

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9+ 1st & 3rd Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
  Leather Crafts

Leader: Bennett Francoeur (Tandy Leather)

For Youth who have little or no previous experience working with leather. You will learn to work with leather stamping tools and to finish leather.

9+ 1st & 3rd Tue or by arrangement
 

Leadership:

Leader: Julie Colglazier

9+ @ Officer's Meetings
 

Marksmanship

Leader: Dean Thames & Julie Colglazier

Learn gun safety, handling, and care of firearms. Guns will be furnished. Possible cost per meeting for ammo. (Must get a signed permission slip from parent). Print the project handouts listed below.

Consent Form
Driving Directions
Shooting
Marksmanship

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9+ 2nd Saturday
 

Multi-Crafts/Advanced

Leader: Donna Hahn

Variety of projects from hand-sewing to painting. Each project will take more than one meeting to complete. Members will need patience and good hand-eye coordination. Focus on projects that members will want to keep for life, or give as a gift or show at the Fair.

 

11+ Two Monday nights per month
 

Oceanography

Leader: Patrick Colglazier

6th Grade + 2nd & 4th Wed at Weibel @3pm
  Outdoor Adventure & Hiking

Leader: Catherine Scheving

We will be learning how to have fun and safe hikes. Hikes will include Coyote Hills in Fremont, Little Yosemite and Flag Hill in Sunol and Wildcat Peak in Berkeley. We will discuss basic essential items that hikers will need at our first meeting.

9+ 3rd Fri Hikes 3rd Sat
 

Photography

Leader: Heidi Davis

 

   
 

POULTRY

Leader: Julie Colglazier

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8+

Last Friday of the month
 

Rabbits

Leader - Selma Michael

   
 

Sewing

Leader: May McMann

Instruction will be based on sewing skills of the group. Completion of at least one project of member's choosing, and one group community service project will be done. Encouraged to enter projects in Fair and Project Field Day.

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9+ TBA, contact leader
 

Service Animals-Guide Dogs
(County project)

Leader: Diana Hirzel

Member dedication is a must!! See Community Leader for contact number.

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9+ Meets several times a month in Livermore area, call for dates and times
 

Theater Arts ( Cultural Arts & Leisure Education)

Leader: Diana Tashjian

Theater Arts (formerly Skit Writing and Skit) is now a project.  Members will write and produce a skit to be performed at Alameda County Skit Night.         Members will write their own script.  They will create scenery and props as well as costumes for the characters they will be playing in the skit.  This is a good opportunity to develop your acting skills and self confidence.  Members will learn basic theater terms.   Will take any age and as many as would like to join.

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All 1st & 3rd Thursday
 

State Exchange (County Project)

Leader: Patrick Colglazier

Communicate with other 4-Hers in other states. Host out-of-state 4-Hers one summer and travel to another state to stay with 4-Hers the next summer. Plus, some fundraising as a group. Develop your leadership skills as you go through the process of identifying needs in your community, group, or club, and develop an action plan to meet these needs.

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12+/14+ 1st Monday
 

Junior/Teen Leader

Leader: Julie Colglazier

Develop your leadership skills as you go through the process of identifying needs in our community, group, or club, and develop an action plan to meet these needs.

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6 grade+ When assigned project meets
 

Self-Determined

Leader: Julie Colglazier

For members who find a topic of interest that they would like to study further, however no projects offered in the current year match what you would like to learn about. Self-Determined allows the member to study the project themselves, and then meet with an assigned leader several times throughout the year to review their progress and assist where needed. The member then can enter the project in their record books at the end of the year for credit.

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6+ As Needed
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