ORANGE CLOVERS 4-H CLUB Issue 10

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Orange
Clovers
4-H Club

Oct - Dec
2018
4H.ORANGECLOVERS@GMAIL.COM IN THIS ISSUE

Starting Year 2 Matthew, Theo, Sam, Maya, New Officer Elections

Year one was a lot of figuring
it out as we went! Year two is
promising to be even better,
with a better idea of what’s
going on!
We welcome back all of our
returning members,
including two Cloverbuds
moving up to full-age
members: August
Niederhoff and Molly
Alamond.
We are excited to welcome a
few other new members this
year ranging from
Cloverbuds to older
members. We love having
new ideas and voices in the
conversations! Welcome to
the club Isabella, Thea,
and Hailey.
This year we
plan to spend
the year on
“puzzles,
locks and games” with a
spring focus on more
outdoor adventures,
kayaking, fishing, another
camping trip for older
members, and whatever else
the members choose! There
is talk of using our “puzzles
locks and coding” to design
and run our own escape
room activity during the
county or state fair if
possible. I’m super excited to
see where the members take
this!
The new club year meant new elections.
Page 2
Public Relations Fun
Club members helped share about 4-H.
Page 3
Meeting Notes
October, November and early December
had us thinking in logical code!
Page 4
Save The Rain and
Everson Trees 2018
Service projects this year involved two
very different tree activities!
Page 5
Family Bike Giveaway
Members helped a local charity
provide bikes to families
Page 6
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New
Officer
Elections
Our 2017-18 year successes
were in large part due to our
active executive committee
who suggested, planned,
and implemented many of
the fun activities of the year.
We thank them for their
service to the club last year!
At our October meeting,
members nominated each
other for the key roles of the
club and shared their
thoughts and ideas. Then
outgoing president Lambros
Alamond conducted a series
of votes.
Thanks to all members for
their contributions! This club
is run for and by the youth
members, including this
process!
Meet our new
Executive
Council!
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President: Campbell Bagley
This is Campbell’s second
year in 4-H. Last year he
really enjoyed the rocketry
activities and this year hopes
to bring more “locks, codes,
and puzzle” activities to the
club. He was VP last year.
Vice President: Molly Alamond
Molly graduated up from
Cloverbud to full-age
member this year (her 2nd
year in 4-H) and went right
into the executive council!
She likes creating stuff and is
an accomplished Irish
Dancer.
Secretary: Katie Niederhoff
Katie served as both
treasurer and secretary most
of last year. She is excited to
help keep the club details
organized in her role as club
secretary. She is also part of
the newsletter team.
Treasurer: Maya Montena
This is Maya’s first year in
4-H. She jumped right in,
though, with the Everson
Tree, fundraising at Abbott’s
Farm, and service work with
the Family Bicycle Giveaway
(page 6). She’s also on the
newsletter team.
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FUNdraising
and Public
Outreach
The Orange Clovers were
invited to help promote
4-H clubs and share
about the program at
three events in October.
Members prepared
“nature journals” and
tulle crowns which they KATIE AND JORGE NIEDERHOFF AT ABBOTT’S
distributed to kids. They FARM ON A RAINY SATURDAY
shared about what it was
like to be in 4-H and what
they liked about it.
In addition to spreading
the word about 4-H, we
were grateful to get
donations from some
families. These
donations went into the
general club treasury and
will be used to support
future activities, guest
speakers, trips, craft
supplies, and any other
A MUCH NICER DAY AT ABBOTTS! MATTHEW,
activities that JORGE, THEA, KATIE, MAYA, AND AUGUST
the club votes
to support.
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Meeting
Notes
October 28, 2018
St Joseph the Worker,
Liverpool NY
Members gathered for a
fun afternoon of
elections (page 2), a rock-
paper-scissors race, and
our first day of learning
about computer
programming. Members
learned about random
number generators and
how they are necessary
to make computer
games interesting to
play.
November 18,
2018
St. Matthews,
Liverpool NY
Members
focused on how to set
out the steps of a process
to teach a computer (or
another person!) how to
accomplish something.
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Recreation leader
August Niederhoff
December 2, 2018
St Joseph the Worker,
chose to start the
Liverpool NY
Another fun
meeting out with origami
meeting – August started
stations. Following
us off with salt-dough
precise steps, we created
and making our own
animals and hearts from
hanging decorations.
our papers.
President Campbell
We then worked on our
Bagley demonstrated his
coding activity, thinking
series of lock puzzles
through how you could
while other members
efficiently write the steps
created a multi-step
of the chicken dance (or
clue-based treasure hunt
the Macarena, or the
all around the building.
fortnight dances!) using a
Thinking through the
series of instructions
desired path, writing an
coded with “if/then”
interesting but helpful
loops and more.
clue, and then thinking of
Co-chairs, Maya which clues had to go in
Montena and Stephanie which location involved
Kelly brought together intense logical thought!
many supplies to work on
The club voted to give
ornaments for our
the extra Everson art
Everson tree donation.
museum memberships
Many ornaments were
to local families. They
done that afternoon, but
also voted to do the bike
a special additional get-
activity for the December
together was planned to
service project.
finish it up. (page 5)
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Tree Everson Art

Planting Museum
Club members helped Save
Festival of
The Rain and Re-Leaf plant a
tree in Liverpool Village’s
Trees
Johnson Park on Saturday
November 3. Club members
created a beautiful
tree for the Everson
Museum of Art’s
Festival of Trees. The
tree was on display for
about two weeks and
was then auctioned as
a fundraiser to
support art in our local
community.

Stephanie Kelly and

Maya Montena (and
their families)
coordinated the
project. The Kelly’s
hosted a crafting
morning at their home
August, Matthew, and Thea
on November 24,
endured cold rainy conditions which brought the
but planted our little tree! It is whole project
along the Oswego Street side, together.
near the small staircase.
Great work, club!
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CNY Family
Bike Give
Away 2018
On December 16, club
members joined the
team at CNY Family Bike
Giveaway at the Dairy
Building on the NYS
Fairgrounds
(http://www.cnyfamilybi
ke.org)
Back: Mae, Katie, Maya
Front: Matthew, Thea, Alexander, August, Victor, and Jorge
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This organization takes
donated bicycles in any
Green!) cleaned over 100
bicycles of dust, grass,
condition. Volunteers leaves, caterpillars,
clean, fix, or scrap as spiders, and mud.
needed. Bikes ranging
This first step of the
from tricycles and
process then allowed the
training wheels to large
more mechanically
adult bicycles are then
trained volunteers to
distributed free-of-
focus on what was
charge to families in the
needed for each bike.
Syracuse area.
About 2,600 bicycles
Our club members
were able to be
(including Onondaga
distributed to the
CCE educator Kayo
community on Dec 22.
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2017-2018
End of year
picnic
To celebrate the end of
the 4-H year, the
Onondaga County team
for the Cornell
Cooperative Extension
hosted a 4-H picnic and
awards ceremony on
November 3, 2018.
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Members and leaders of
clubs from all over the
Members that submitted
projects to the fair were
county attended for a paid their premiums
lunch and review of the (submitted projects earn
year. Awards were $3 each) and those that
presented, highlights of worked at a fair table or
the year were celebrated, booth were paid for their
and more. time.
From the Orange Club leaders were also
Clovers, the executive presented with honors.
council leaders were
Thank you to the great
each presented with a
team of Onondaga CCE
certificate honoring their
who make this all
work with the club.
happen!
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Late March, Saturday:

Winter 2019
Dec 31: All 4-H enrollments
are due! Please be sure you
have done the online, paper,
and payment steps. Contact
Kayo Green with questions.
Kg493@cornell.edu
Jan 13: Club Meeting, St
Joseph the Worker,
Liverpool. Puzzles and
escape room design
February 10: Club Meeting
Junk Drawer Robotics;
valentines for donation
March 10: Club Meeting.
Members will vote on ideas
for activities
Presentation Day event at
Fairgrounds. A great day for
kids to do a speech,
presentation, or
demonstration on any topic
of their choosing and get
constructive feedback!
More: Members may suggest
fun activities like sledding,
skating, service projects or
more. Stay in touch on
Facebook, Email, or the
google doc calendar.

Future meetings
Orange Jan 13, 2019 2-3:30
Location: St Joseph the Worker
Clovers Program: Excape room deisgn

4-H Club
Executive Committee
Feb 10, 2019 2-3:30
 President: Campbell Bagley Location: St Joseph the Worker
 VP: Molly Alamond Program: Junk Drawer Robotics
 Secretary: Katie Niederhoff
 Treasurer: Maya Montena
 Newsletter team:
(Reporter/Photographer/Historian): Maya
4h.orangeclovers@gmail.com
Mar 10, 2019 2-3:30
Montena; Katie Niederhoff Location: St Joseph the Worker
Program: TBD
Chair of...

 Puzzles, Locks and Codes: Jorge Niederhoff Contact:

 Service Activities: as needed
 Outdoor Explorations: Lambros Alamond 4h.orangeclovers@gmail.com
 Recreation: August Niederhoff
 Refreshments: Sam Anderson See the Facebook page.
www.facebook.com/groups/orangeclovers/

or Updated Calendar:
https://goo.gl/wwtBYa