Youth Development

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Forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steve Seybold and doctoral student Jackson Audley by a downtown Davis tree with thousand cankers disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Forest Entomologist/Chemical Ecologist Steven Seybold: 1959-2019

November 20, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We are all saddened by the death of noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis.
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Casey and Raedyn (center) with the Bay/Coast Youth Summit planning team.
California 4-H Grown: Article

Bay/Coast Youth Summit — By Youth, For Youth

November 20, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
The California 4-H Youth Summits are three-day leadership conferences held at four locations throughout the state. They are designed to grow the leadership abilities of intermediate 4-H members (ages 11-13) and give hands-on leadership opportunities to senior 4-H members (ages 14+).
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Bed Bugs at various stages
HOrT COCO-UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa: Article

Bed Bugs Winning?

November 11, 2019
Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program in Contra Costa County Updated Situation: Bed bug encounters are on the rise in California.
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A praying mantis depositing an egg mass, ootheca. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Bohart Museum Open House: How to Raise Insects

November 6, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Like to learn how to raise insects? Insects such as monarch butterflies, praying mantids and silkworm moths? The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will host an open house on Arthropod Husbandry: Raising Insects for Research and Fun from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov.
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Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, welcomes the crowd to the Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Scary Insects and Lovable Critters at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

October 31, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Scary critters with mandibles and lovable insects with antennae gathered at the Halloween party at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davi, hosted by the Friends of the Bohart. There was the bee family: the queen bee, the drone and the worker bee.
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2019 NJHA Convention California 4-H team photo
California 4-H Grown: Article

Horticulture team represented California 4-H well

October 31, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
Towards the end of National 4-H Week this year, from October 11 to 14, our California 4-H Horticulture team competed at the 2019 National Junior Horticulture Association Convention in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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CS Pathway Team, volunteers, Googlers, and youth participants posing in front of a Google sign.
California 4-H Grown: Article

Game Changers at Google

October 30, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
For the second year in a row, the Computer Science Pathway Team of the University of California Cooperative Extension's (UCCE) 4-H Youth Development Program of Santa Clara County held an event for National Youth Science Day (NYSD).
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2018-19 4-H State Ambassador, Maura
California 4-H Grown: Article

Sharing the Youth Perspective on Adolescent Mental Health

October 28, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
Hello, my name is Maura Sparrevohn, and I was a California 4-H State Ambassador for the 2018-2019 program year. This last April, I was selected to attend the National 4-H Conference in Washington D.C.
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4-H Teen Teacher helping students complete the Hack Your Harvest activity.
California 4-H Grown: Article

4-H National Youth Science Day Grows in Santa Clara County

October 28, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
To celebrate the National Youth Science Day (NYSD) challenge in October, the 4-H Youth Development Program in Santa Clara County offered two peer teaching NYSD events, where teens taught younger youth physical activities and puzzles from Game Changers, a computational thinking curriculum created by...
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Serenity modeling her outfit.
California 4-H Grown: Article

Everyone should go to State Field Day

October 25, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
State Field Day was held at the University of California Davis in Davis, California the first weekend of June. It was a ton of fun and everyone should go at least once. There was so much to see and do there.
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