UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS EXTENSION

COUNCIL REPORT

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

January

• 28^th - Telenet on Hispanic camps
• 29^th - Telenet for Illini Leadership Academy
• 30^th - Expansion & Review committee meeting (14 people)
• 30^th - AITC at Coal City (90 students)

February

• 5^th - Business Education Council meeting
• 6^th - Staff meeting
• 6^th - AITC at MVK - dairy lesson (47 students)
• 10^th - Grundy County Government Day (58 youth & about 50 adults)
• 10^th - Environmental fair committee walk thru
• 11^th - Southwest Philanthropic Network meeting
• 12^th - NE youth contacts telenet
• 12^th - AITC dairy unit at ICS (26 youth)
• 13^th - Home school 4-H meeting - consumer education (36 people)
• 13^th - ILA telenet
• 15^th - Met with horse bowl team
• 16^th - Radio program on environmental fair
• 16^th - Healthy lifestyle program at CYC with home school (10 people)
• 17^th - State youth team telenet
• 20^th - Shopping race with Farm Bureau to celebrate Food Freedom Day
• 23^rd - AITC dairy unit at Coal City (85 youth)
• 25^th - Ag breakfast at R-Place
• 27^th - Home school 4-H meeting - consumer education (40 people)

March

• 1^st - Meth program at Coal City (250 youth)
• 1^st - Met with horse bowl team (12 youth)
• 2^nd - ILA telenet
• 3^rd - Environmental fair meeting
• 3^rd - 4-H current concerns telenet
• 7^th - Environmental fair (2250 people - 2 booths)
• 8^th - Saratoga Ag 4-H meeting (60 people)
• 10^th - 4-H fair association meeting
• 12^th - Shooting sports telenet
• 13^th - Home school 4-H - nutrition & exercise unit (39 people)
• 15^th - Soccer coaches and ref clinic on sportsmanship (28 people)
• 16^th - OMK meeting in Champaign
• 17^th & 18^th - Youth team meeting in Champaign
• 20^th - AITC careers in ag unit at MVK (45 youth)
• 24^th - Chamber of Commerce luncheon on recycling
• 24^th - Radon gas program at county building
• 24^th - PQA Plus class at office
• 25^th - Environmental fair meeting
• 26^th - Attended Farm Bureau annual meeting
• 27^th - Home school 4-H meeting - weather stations & preparedness; Bill Morris from National Weather Service was guest speaker (42 people)
• 28^th - Rabbit clinic
• 30^th - Staff meeting
• 31^st - AITC technology unit for 5^th graders at MVK (47 youth)

Upcoming Activities

• Work with clubs on 4-H grants
• Teach classes for 4^th & 5^th graders through AITC
• Youth in sports character building workshops
• Youth Leadership Academies with emphasis on government
• Ag Jeopardy contest
• Dairy farm tours
• Teen conference
• Illini Leadership Academy
• Operation Military Kids camps
• Embryology classes
• Friends of Extension benefit

Grants Working on Since Last Report

• Rose garden planting (denied)
• Pioneer Seed Company - Community Heath grant (approved)
• Scientifically Healthy grant (awaiting word)
• Emergency Preparedness grant (awaiting word)
• Morris Community Foundation Health grant (writing)
• Do Something grant on Emergencies (writing)
• Morris Community Foundation grant for Robotics (writing)

Continuing Activities

• Statewide Operation Military Kids program
• State Awards Committee
• Youth Leadership Flagship Proposal
• Local government youth academy
• Citizens' emergency response team
• 4-H technology team
• Improve Grundy County website
• Cost recovery task force
• Shooting sports task force

• Youth science camp
• Relationships Smart Curriculum in schools

Submitted by John Davis, Unit Educator, Youth Development - 3/31/2009