Youth Development

4-H has come a long way from its rural roots now encompassing projects that range from mathematics to mindfulness, robotics to rock climbing. But it's not about to toss out the projects that have built character and confidence in 4-H members since the program's inception more than 100 years ago.

When creating an ad campaign, your target audience is your main consideration. You try to create a messageusing words and/or imagesthat you feel would resonate with them.

A new intern joins the Education Team this spring. Meet Joseph Nosrat, Environmental Communications senior at CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI). Joseph obtained an Associate Degree at Mt. San Antonio College.

If you walk into the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, you might see UC Davis student Ivana Trinh Satre entering moth data on the LepNet database. It's a database but she also has a fan base.

Despite increasing awareness of the issue of lead in drinking water, UC Nutrition Policy Institute and Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that many students in the U.S.

"Where can kids learn beekeeping for free?" someone asked us last week. One of the ways is through the 4-H Youth Development Program. Who can join 4-H, which stands for head, heart, health and hands and which follows the motto, "making the best better?" It's open to all youths ages 5 to 19.

The affordability of healthy food is often cited as a barrier to low-income families eating nutritious meals.

The Southern Youth Summit (SYS) is sponsored by the state 4-H and the theme this year was Bee the Change. I have been to SYS for two years and it is a wonderful experience where I have learned leadership skills and met other 4-H youth leaders.

Want to learn how to keep bees? The University of California, Davis, is offering two classes in mid-March: the first on Saturday, March 23 and the second on Sunday, March 24.

The "Seven Wonders of the World" have nothing on the "Eight-Legged Wonders" that will be at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 9. It's all about spiders and other arachnids.