Stark-Billings County

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	What is Communication Arts
	Registration
	Dress Code
	Categories
	4-H Pledge
	Pledge of Allegiance
	4-H Member's Creed
	4-H Poem "Learn to Do by Doing"
	North Dakota 4-H Communication Arts

What is Communication Arts?

The ability to communicate is a skill that is useful throughout a lifetime. The North Dakota 4-H Communication Arts program provides youth with the opportunity to practice their communication skills before a group. Communication arts program participants begin on the club or local level. Youth are encouraged to give at least one demonstration, illustrated talk, speech, interpretive reading or dramatic presentation each year. The communication arts program has five primary objectives:

1. To help participants develop communication skills that are useful throughout their lifetime.
2. To provide participants an opportunity to practice their skills before a group.
3. To provide participants an opportunity to gather and organize information, equipment and/or props for a public presentation.
4. To develop confidence in making public presentations.
5. To evaluate and enhance communication skills.
   

4-H Communication Arts is open to any 4-H member in the following age divisions:

	Pledge Division: Cloverbud members
	Creed/Poem:  Members ages 8 or 9
	Preteen: Members ages 8 to 12
	Teen:  Members ages 13 to 18

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Registration

The 2008 Stark-Billings County 4-H Communication Arts Event  is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20, at the Stark-Billings County Extension Office. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m., and the contest begins at 7 p.m. MT.

Registration deadline is tentatively May 8. See registration form

All participants (with the exception of Cloverbud members) in this contest will be invited to participate in the District 4-H Communication Arts Contest scheduled for May 27 at the New England Public School.

Members may compete in a demonstration category and a public speaking category in the same year at the county level. Any 4-H member who successfully wins in a category two years in a row at the district level must participate in a different category or division in the next year. After participating in a different category, the 4-H member may demonstrate in any category.

Also see registration form

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Dress Code

Dress code is in effect for this event except in presentations that require a costume. The Stark-Billings County 4-H dress code is: All 4-H participants/exhibitors are encouraged to wear a white shirt/blouse with a 4-H emblem on the front. It is also recommended that members wear dark jeans/slacks/shorts/skirts. Any changes in ribbon placing are at the judge’s discretion.

Exceptions to dress code are those youth participating in the Dramatic Presentation and Commercial categories where costumes are allowed.

Participants not following the dress code shall not be eligible for the Champion or Honorable Mention awards in their categories."

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Categories

These categories will be held at the county event. See more information in the publication, 4-H Communication Arts Program, which is available at the county extension office:

Food Demonstration - individual
Food Demonstration - team
General Demonstration - individual
General Demonstration - team
Illustrated Talk - general
Illustrated Talk - technology
Public Speaking
Interpretive Reading - humorous
Interpretive Reading - serious
Dramatic Presentation - individual
Dramatic Presentation - team
Commercial - individual
Commercial - team
Short Take
Broadcasting
Presentation Software
Video Production
Web Site Design
Promote 4-H
4-H Creed (ages 8 or 9)
4-H Poem (ages 8 or 9)
4-H Pledge (ages 6 & 7)
Pledge of Allegiance (ages 6 & 7)

Ask for your copy of 4-H Communication Arts Program at the extension office or see 4-H Communication Arts

It is recommended that participants use their own creativity and originality in preparing their public presentation. Youth are encouraged not to use presentations that have been used in previously judged competitions.

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4-H Pledge

4-H members enrolled in Cloverbud Project ages 6 and 7 should memorize:

I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger service, and
my health to better living,
for my club, my community, my country and my world.

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Pledge of Allegiance

4-H members enrolled in the Cloverbud project ages 6 and 7 should memorize:

I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation
under God
indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.

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4-H Member’s Creed

4-H members ages 8 to 10 should memorize:

I believe in 4-H club work for the opportunity it will give me to become a useful citizen.
I believe in the training of my head for the power it will give me to think, to plan and to reason.
I believe in the training of my heart for the nobleness it will give me to become kind, sympathetic and true.
I believe in the training of my hands for the dignity it will give me to be helpful, useful and skillful.
I believe in the training of my health for the strength it will give me to enjoy life, resist disease and to work efficiently.
I believe in my country, my state and my community and my responsibility for their development.

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4-H Poem "Learning to Do by Doing"

4-H members ages 8 to 10 should memorize:

4-H has helped me greatly
And 4-H has taught me, too
With my head, heart, health and hands
There’s so much I’ve learned to do.

I have learned to set my goals
And to work hard to achieve
I have learned to make my stand
For the things that I believe.

I have learned how to be friendly
And learned how to be a friend
I have learned of independence
And I’ve learned how to depend.

I have learned to learn from others
And I’ve learned to just be me
I have learned cooperation and responsibility.

I have learned about my project
And I’ve learned about myself
I have learned of the potential
of my head, heart, hands and health.

Yes, 4-H has helped me greatly
And 4-H has taught me, too
When you learn to do by doing
You really learn what you can do!

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Also see registration form

 

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