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August 2025

• 1: 2025-2025 4-H Year Begins
• 13: 4-H Foundation Meeting
• 16: Jr. Leader Retreat – Leroy D. Williams Memorial Library – Reserve Branch
• 16: Steers Validation Date

September 2025

• 1: Labor Day – 4-H Office Closed
• 6: Jr. Leader Meeting
• 18: Southeast Region Volunteer Training
• 26: Build Your Story Poster Contest Due
• 26: Enrollment Drive Contest Due

October 2025

• Oct. Meeting Dates: Pumpkin Decorating Contest – Judge at schools
• 4: Jr. Leader Meeting
• 5 – 11: National 4-H Week
• 6: Beyond Ready: Go Green
• 7: 4-H Family Night – River Parish Community College
• 7: 4-H Display Contest Entries Due
• 9: Beyond Ready: 4-H For Good
• 24: Rebuild It: Engineering Design Challenge Due

November 2025

• 8: Jr. Leader Meeting
• 11 – 12: Southeast Region Challenge Camp – Lion King Retreat Center – Amite, LA - *Open to 7th-8th graders
• 10: Possession Date for Breeding Beef, Sheep, Goat, Dairy, & Exhibition Poultry
• 10: Beef & Dairy Commercial Heifers, Market Lambs & Commercial Ewes, Market Goat & Commercial Does Validation Due
• 14: Thanksgiving Food Drive Items Due & Pick-Up
• 17: Possession Date for Miniature Cattle
• 21: Influence through Leadership Speech Contest Due
• 24: Level Up – Build Your Leadership Game Workshop
• 27 – 28: 4-H Office Closed
• 28 – Nov. 2: National 4-H Congress – Atlanta, GA

December 2025

• 1: Market & Commercial Hog Validation Date
• 1: Possession Date for Breeding Swine
• 5: 4-H Impact Video Challenge Submissions Due
• 5: Holiday Wreath Decorating Contest Due
• 6: Jr. Leader Holiday Social
• 6: Louisiana 4-H Day of Service
• 24 – Jan. 1: 4-H Office Closed

January 2026

• 13: Food and Fitness Camp – Baton Rouge, LA
• 16: Who I Am, Who I’ll Be Contest Due
• 19: MLK Day of Service
• 19: 4-H Office Closed
• 19: Fashion and Beyond on Tour – Day Camp
• 24: Fashion and Beyond on Tour – Day Camp
• 27 – 31: South Central District Livestock Show – Covington, LA

February 2026

• 7: Jr. Leader Meeting
• 13: 4-H Achievement Day Registration Due
• 13: 4-H Club Scrapbooks Due
• 13: Beef Poster Contest Due
• 13: Dairy Billboard Poster Contest Due
• 14 – 21: LSU AgCenter State 4-H & FFA Livestock Show – Gonzales, LA
• 16: Thrive Inside & Out: Building a Healthy You Workshop
• 19-21: Spark, Action, Change Summit – Baton Rouge, LA
• 27: All project books are due

March 2026

• 6 – 8: Junior Leadership Conference – Camp Grant Walker - *Open to members in grades 8^th-12^th
• 10: Southern Region Food Challenge Competition
• 20: 4-H Achievement Day – West St. John High
• 20 – April 4: Southern Regional Shooting Sports Match – Ascension & WBR Parishes
• 25 – 29: Ignite by 4-H – Washington D.C.
• 17 – 21: AgMagic on the River – Docville, LA
• 23 – 28: AgMagic in Baton Rouge – LSU – Baton Rouge, LA

April 2026

• 10-19: Louisiana 4-H State Shooting Sports Match
• 16: Edible Book Contest – In partnership with the St. John Library and National Library Week
• 18: STEAM Builders: Creating a Future with Purpose Workshop
• TBA: Spring Cookery Contest

May 2026

• TBA: Southeast Region Culinary Arts Contest – Amite, LA

June & July 2026

• June 23-26: 4-H University – LSU-Baton Rouge - *Open to 4-H’ers in grades 8 through 12
• TBA: 4-H Summer Camp - *Open to 4th-6th grade students, both 4-H’ers, and non-4-H’ers
• TBA: L.O.S.T. Camp – Camp Grant Walker – Open to 7th – 8th graders