PASE and Life Challenge 2015Registration & General Information

▪ Date & Locations

▪ New Registration Process ▪ Tours & Presentations

▪ Life Challenge

▪ ESI Challenge

▪ PASE

▪ New Website

TODAY’S TOPICS

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DATES & LOCATIONS

Who: 4-H Members ages 10-18 by January 1, 2015

When: June 28, 29 & 30, 2015

Where: PASE – Animal Science Complex

Life Challenge – East Campus Union

ESI Challenge – Home Economics 11

Lodging: Burr Hall, East Campus (or on your own)

$23.00/person/day

Meals: Lunch is included for $3.00/person/day, picnic dinner

is included, breakfast included for those staying in the

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▪ We are now registering in 4honline!

▪ Counties will register youth by logging into your county

manager account ▪ Youth will be individually enrolled and fees will be individually

applied▪ Team assignments and housing requests will also be

designated for each youth ▪ There is a small increase in the fees for housing, meals and

contests to accommodate increasing costs and the 5% fee

REGISTRATION

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▪City Campus Tours

4:00 – 5:30 pm

▫ Walking tour of City Campus

▫ Dinner at Harper-Schramm-Smith

▪The Ultimate Team Challenge

7:00 – 8:00 pm

▫ Location: Burr Hall (East Campus)

TOURS & PRESENTATIONS ─ SUNDAY

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TOURS & PRESENTATIONS – MONDAY

East Campus activities including:

▪ Truth or Consequences

▪ The Wonderful World of Insects

▪ The Ultimate Team Challenge Continued

▪ Awesome Animals

▪ Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum

▪ Compensatory Growth in Perennial Grasses and Cattle

▪ East Campus Scavenger Hunt

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▪ County Life Challenge packet emailed to 4-H List Serv in April

▫ Beginning and advanced placing questions

▫ County Life Challenge questions

▪State Life Challenge areas▫ Foods and Nutrition (Monday am)

▫ Child/Human Development (Monday pm)

▫ Design Challenge (Monday and Tuesday)

LIFE CHALLENGE UPDATES

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Career Exploration Event

▪ NEW to Life Challenge

▪ Participants ages 10 and 11

▪ Takes place during the Life Challenge Events

▪ They will be exploring future job possibilities and steps

they can take to get there.

▪Activities led by Sue Ellen Pegg and Career

Development & College Readiness Team.

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▪ FCS Web Quiz

▫ For ages 8 to 12 years old

▫ Administer to youth by hard copy

▫ Counties will be responsible for

grading quiz▫ Sent to Counties May 12th

FCS Quiz

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▪ Purpose: ▫ Highlight breadth of knowledge, understanding, and real life

application of healthy living topics

▪ Overview: ▫ 4-H members compete as teams of 2 - 4 members.

▫ 8 Healthy Living topics, set up in the form of stations

▫ Teams rotate through each station

- answer questions and/or demonstrate specific skills▫ Work together as a team to complete each station & receive score

▫ All necessary technology or materials will be provided

▫ No cell phones or other electronic devices with internet connectivity!

▫ Station review following the contest (during lunch)

Healthy Living Skill-a-thonTuesday, June 30th

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Healthy Living Skill-a-thon

Station Topics

▪ Nutrition

▪ Physical Activity

▪ Decision Making

▪ Food Safety

▪ Science of Food

▪ Conflict Resolution

▪ Culinary Skills (food prep)

▪ Living On Your Own

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EntrepreneurShip

Investigation

Challenge

GOAL: TO DEVELOP A BUSINESS

CONCEPT THAT PROVIDES A

BUSINESS SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM

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ESI Challenge Details

▪ Teams may consist of two, three or four members

▪ Teams will be first introduced to a problem facing society today – that is their

topic for the competition.

▪ After learning about the problem, teams will brainstorm a business solution to

the problem.

▪ Teams will develop questions to learn more about how the problem affects

their potential customers.

▪ Teams will then interview other team members to help refine their business

concept

▪ Teams will test out their business concept and prepare for their presentations

▪ Team will present their business concept to judges. They can use PPT, poster

boards and other presentation materials provided.

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No prior preparation is needed. However if teams would like to practice wor

king

together as a team, here is an exercise that they can use:

Think of a problem that is bothersome to people within your community. As

a team,

brainstorm possible ways that the problem could be solved through a busin

ess.

Questions to think about –

• What product/services would your business offer and why?

• Who are your customers and why would they buy your product/service?

• How would your customers get your product/service?

• How would your business make money?

• What is the best way to let your customers know about your product/service?

• What do you need to start your business? Facilities, cash, knowledge?

• What other decisions do you need to make about your business?

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PASE Contests Include:

▪ Meats for Consumers Judging (6/29)

▪ Poultry Judging (6/29)

▪ Livestock Quiz Bowl (6/29)

▪ Livestock Skill-a-thon (6/29)

▪ Livestock Judging (6/30)

PREMIER ANIMAL SCIENCE EVENT

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Meats for Consumers Judging

▪The contest consists of retail meat cut identification, food

safety practicum lab exercise, written test and two placing

classes of retail cuts

▪ No age divisions

▪ Teams will consist of 3 to 4 youth

▪ The highest ranking eligible team will have the opportunity

to participate at the National 4-H Meats Judging Contest

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Poultry Judging

▪ The contest consists of two classes of judging hens for past

production, one set of oral reasons on a production hen class,

grading eggs based on exterior quality, interior quality by

candling, and broken-out quality, grading ready-to-cook parts.

“National Poultry Judging” (4H 460) will be a reference for this

contest.▪ No age divisions

▪ Teams will consist of 3 to 4 youth

▪ The highest ranking eligible team will have the opportunity to

participate at the National 4-H Poultry Judging Contest in

Louisville, Kentucky.

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Livestock Judging

▪ Both divisions will consist of 10 placing classes. All classes may or may not include

scenarios to assist in placing the class. Breeding class scenarios may include

actual data or EPD’s. Senior division will give reasons on 4 classes and answer

questions on 2 classes. Intermediate division will give reasons on 3 classes and

answer questions on 2 classes.

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▪ Intermediate (10-13) and Senior (14-18) Age Divisions

▪ Teams will consist of 3 to 4 youth

▪ 1st Place Senior Team Only – Choice of the following national livestock

judging contests:

- National 4-H Livestock Judging Contest (Louisville, KY)

- American Royal 4-H Livestock Judging Contest (Kansas City, MO)

- National Western Roundup (Denver/Fort Collins, CO)

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Livestock Skill-a-thon

▪ The contest will consist of six team stations. Each station is worth 100

points, for a total of 600 points in the contest. Stations will include:

-Meats

-Breed and/or equipment identification and uses

-Breeding scenario problem

-Animal evaluation and/or marketing problem

-Quality Assurance

-Feed identification and use and/or feeding/performance problem ▪ Intermediate (10-13) and Senior (14-18) Age Divisions

▪ Teams will consist of 3, 4 or 5 youth

▪ The highest ranking eligible team will qualify for the National 4-H

Livestock Skill-a-thon Contest at Louisville, KY. NEBRASKA 4-H

Livestock Quiz Bowl

▪ A team will consist of four members and up to 1

alternate▪ There are no individual entries in this contest, only

teams▪ Intermediate (10-13) and Senior (14-18) Age Divisions

▪ The Champion Senior Division Quiz Bowl team will

participate in the National Invitational 4-H Livestock

Quiz Bowl in Omaha, Nebraska

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New website coming soon!

Any additional questions please

contact:

Brandy Wagner

bwagner5@unl.edu

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