4HOnline Enrollment

To enroll in 4-H go to v2.4honline.com or click on the QR code below. If you have never enrolled in 4-H using 4HOnline, click Don't Have an Account and answer the questions. Once you complete your family’s information, click Create Account. Enter your family’s address information and click Verify. Then continue to the section for adding a new member to the family and answer all questions until you finish and pay. If you already were in 4-H and have a 4HOnline account, go the website or click the QR code and enter your email address and password to sign in. Click the blue +Add Member button to add a new member, then select the program the member is joining. Click Next. Complete the information about the member and click Next. Continue answering the questions until you click Finish and get to the payment section.

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4-H Opportunities for You!

SEWcial Club

Attention 4^th-12^th graders! Do you want to learn how to make fun items for yourself, as gifts, or to donate to others? Do you like to work with your hands! If so, join our new Lafourche Parish 4-H SEWcial Club! Club members will learn lots of stitching and sewing skills, sewing safety, and create fun projects! Use the QR code below to register! Yearly membership dues are $25 and can be dropped off or mailed to: Lafourche 4-H Foundation, Attn: SEWcial Club, 115 Texas St., Raceland, LA 70394. You can call the 4-H Office for more information. Hurry! Space is limited! Click here to register.

Lafourche 4-H Livestock Project Showcase

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the awesome 4-H livestock projects Lafourche 4-H has to offer! Drop in to our family-friendly event on Saturday, October 5^th from 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. at the Ag Building in Raceland! Our very own Lafourche 4-H livestock exhibitors and some of our Louisiana 4-H Livestock Ambassadors will be on site to help you explore all of the wonderful opportunities in our livestock program! This livestock open house is for new, current, and potential livestock exhibitors in our parish in grades 4-12! Use the QR code below to register for this free event!

Robotics Club

Robots are all around us! From our foods to our cars, robots make our lives easier, efficient, and fun! If you are interested in learning how to design, build, and program robots, join our new Lafourche 4-H Robotics Club! Use the QR code below to register! Our yearly membership fee is $25, which includes a club t-shirt, and can be dropped off or mailed to: Lafourche 4-H Foundation, Attn: Robotics, 115 Texas St., Raceland, LA, 70394. Feel free to call the 4-H Office for more information! The club is open to Lafourche 4-H members in grades 4-12! Click here to register.

Are you Ready?

4-H Volunteer Roundup

WANTED: Awesome 4-H adult volunteers!

Are you an adult interested in helping the Lafourche Parish 4-H Youth Development Program? If so, 4-H wants YOU! Interested adults are invited to our first 4-H Volunteer Roundup Interest Meeting on Monday, September 9^th at 5:30 P.M. at the Ag Building, 115 Texas St., Raceland, LA. We have volunteer opportunities in cooking, sewing, livestock, shooting sports, public speaking, fundraising, equine, Junior Leaders, Robotics, and so much more! We hope to see you there! Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by registering with the QR code below to let us know you will be attending!

National 4-H Week

Join 4-H'ers around the country in celebrating National 4-H Week during the week of Oct. 6-12, 2024. This week is set aside by the Cooperative Extension Service and 4-H Clubs in each state to focus attention on the value of 4-H.Through their 4-H clubs, they have fun, make friends, explore new adventures, and develop skills for future success! Louisiana engages more than 113,000 youth in areas including agriculture, STEM, healthy living, leadership and the environment! Lafourche Parish has approximately 900 members in 35 school 4-H clubs. Observed since 1927, National 4-H Week has been a time for 4-H members and their volunteer leaders to celebrate all that is wonderful in 4-H! To celebrate the week, we are sponsoring a Show Your 4-H Pride Contest. We would like each club to create a display to put outside in front of your school. The theme is Beyond Ready. Some of the things the judges will look for are creativity, involvement of the 4-H’ers, appeal, and originality. We want the community to see them, so be creative! We will award First Place and Honorable Mention for each division (Elementary, Middle, Senior, and K-12).Judging begins on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.More details will be sent to leaders.

Parish Executive Committee Elections & Officer/Leader Training

Calling all 4-H school club officers and leaders! The Lafourche Parish4-H Executive Committee Elections and Officer and Leader Training will be held on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at the Ag Building in Raceland. Each school may send two voting delegates and officers. If you want to run for a parish office, you must be a voting delegate from your school, and we must receive your application electronically sent to stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.eduin the 4-H Office by September 30, 2024.4-H’ers who are in the 4^th – 12^th grade may run for office. Please see your 4-H leader for more details and an application.

New Livestock Exhibitors

Please call the 4-H Office at 446-1316 as soon as possible if you are a new exhibitor interested in showing livestock or horses in 4-H during this school year so you can receive information on any upcoming events. There are important deadlines that need to be met and are posted on the website. Possession dates for each species are as follows:

• Steers, August 16
• Commercial Beef, Commercial Dairy, November 11
• Beef and Dairy Breeding, November 11
• Market Lambs, Commercial Ewes and Sheep Breeding, November 11
• Market Goats, Commercial Does and Goat Breeding, November 11
• Miniature Beef, November 18
• Exhibition Poultry, December 2
• Market Hogs, Commercial Hogs & Swine Breeding, December 2

Livestock Validation

As in past years, all market animals and commercial breeding animals are required to be validated through a process of collecting hair samples. The animals are then tagged and “validated”. You will be responsible for contacting the 4-H office to get your validation kits, validating your own animals, and returning the kits to our office with your fees before November 11, 2024, for commercial beef, commercial dairy, market lambs, commercial ewes, market goats and commercial does. Market and commercial hogs will have to be validated before December 2, 2024, using the same process. If you need assistance or have any questions, please call the 4-H office at 985-446-1316.

Opportunities galore!

Become a Junior Leader!

Attention 4-H Teens! As a club composed of 4-H members at least 13 years of age from throughout the parish, our Lafourche Parish Junior Leader Club focuses on being involved in community service as well as having fun as a group! Helping at parish 4-H events is an annual task completed by many of our Junior Leaders. If interested in joining the club, please make every effort to attend the first meeting on September 19^th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Ag. Building in Raceland (115 Texas Street).Yearly dues are $20, which include the Junior Leader t-shirt. Don’t forget to bring a friend to join in the fun!

4-H Spirit Poster Contest

Create a poster that shows your 4-H Spirit and love of Lafourche 4-H! The guidelines for the contest are (1) Poster must be an 11 x 14 white poster board. No foam boards., (2) Do not attach anything to the poster that is more than ½ “thick. (3) Be sure to place your name, grade, and school on the back of the poster in the upper right-hand corner. The posters will be picked up at the October club meetings or can be dropped off at the 4-H Office. Recognition and awards are in the following divisions: Elementary Division- 4^th – 5^th grade; Middle School Division- 6^th – 8^th grade; and High School Division- 9^th – 12^th grade. Purple and blue ribbons will be awarded. Every 4-H club member that makes a poster will receive a ribbon! Everyone’s a winner!

Camp Catch Phrase

What’s a great theme for 4-H Summer Camp? Send in your most creative ideas for a slogan that is brief and “catchy,” capturing the spirit of 4-H Camp—in 7 words or less along with illustrations. Illustrations must accompany the phrase and will be part of the contest. The winner will receive a $50 monetary award, and it will be used on all publicity for camp and on the camp T-shirt. Think fast...the deadline is October 31st. Your submission must include your full name, grade, age, parish and 4-H Club, complete mailing address, and phone number. Submit your entries by this date to Grant Walker 4-H Educational Center, Camp Catch Phrase, 3000 Hwy. 8, Pollock, LA, 71467, or email to CampGrantWalker@agcenter.lsu.edu.

Southwest Region Challenge Camp

Challenge Camp will be held for 7^th and 8^th graders on November 19-20, 2024, at the Acadian Baptist Center in Eunice, LA for 13 4-H club members. Priority will be given to first-time campers. Please call the 4-H Office at 985-446-1316 by October 25^th to register and give your T-shirt size. There will be a registration fee of $125.00 to attend.

Shooting Sports Registration Meeting

Are you interested in BB, Shotgun, Rifle, Archery, Hunting Skills, or Muzzleloading? If so, come see what it is all about! A Lafourche Parish 4-H Shooting Sports Registration Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 5^th, at 5:30 P.M. at the Ag Building in Raceland. All interested members should attend with a parent. There will also be a field day on September 12^th at 5:30 P.M. at the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Rifle Range in Raceland to see the disciplines in action! Please see the Lafourche 4-H Facebook Page for more details.

SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE!

Garden Contest Winners

4-H’ers throughout Lafourche Parish participated in the Garden Contest last spring. They selected a site, made rows, planted their crops, kept records, and picked their harvest. Winners of the 2024 Garden Contest were Elementary Division: 1^st Place – Jessie-Lynn Rivere, Lockport Upper; Middle School Division: 1^st Place – Iyron Cheramie, Holy Rosary; 2^nd Place – Rylun Guidry; Larose-Cut Off: and 3^rd Place – Jonah Curole, Holy Rosary; Senior High Division: 1^st Place – Madelyn Fossum, Central Lafourche; 2^nd Place – Kale Guidry, South Lafourche; and 3^rd Place (Tie) – Beaux & Logan Curole, E. D. White. Congratulations to all who participated!

State and Southern Regional Horse Shows

The State Horse Show was held at the Beauregard covered arena in DeRidder from July 9-12, 2024.Lafourche was well represented at the show with the following winners Gracyn Guidry, St. Charles Elementary, High Point – Timed Events 13 & Under, Stake Race 13 & Under – 1^st Place, Pole Bending 13 & Under - 2^nd Place, Barrel Racing 13 & Under - 6^th Place; Emma Percle, Thibodaux High, Premier Exhibitor – 4^th Place, Stake Race 14 & Over – 10^th Place, Barrel Racing 14 & Over – 9^th Place and Goat Tying 14 & Over – 7^th Place; Olivia Nelton, Raceland Upper, Pole Bending 13 & Under – 8^th Place and Emily Rodrigue, Larose-Cut Off Middle, Pole Bending 14 & Over – 6^th Place.

We also have a Southern Regional 4-H Horse Show Winner! Gracyn Guidry competed in the Southern Regional 4-H Horse Championships in Perry, Georgia, and won 1^st place out of 100 in Pole Bending, 1^st place out of 99 in Stake Race and received Reserve Champion High Point for the Speed Events! Congratulations to all on a job well done!

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State Ambassadors and Leadership Board Members

Congratulations to the following members who were chosen to represent Louisiana 4-H as State Ambassadors and Leadership Board Members: Equine Ambassador-Adele Stein; Shooting Sports Ambassadors-Madelyn Fossum and Hunter Poche; STEM Leadership Board-Rylun Guidry. We are so proud of you!

4-H University

4-H University which was held June 18-21, 2024, on the campus of Louisiana State University. Lafourche Parish was proudly represented by 29 competitors who won 55 medals in various contests from Fishing Sports to Photography, and even Career Preparation! Our Outdoor Skills Team and Meat ID Individual were State Champions! The Outdoor Skills team won a trip to Ignite in Washington, D.C. and it consisted of Joel Orgeron, Member-at-Large, 2^nd place individual; Rana Orgeron, Member-at-Large, 3^rd place individual; and Ethan Orgeron, Member-at-Large, 6^th place individual. Bob Bourgeois, Thibodaux High was awarded a trip to compete in the National Meat Id Contest in Manhattan, Kansas for his 1^st place individual award and 2^nd place team. Zayle Falgout, Central Lafourche, won 7^th place in Career Preparation, 5^th place team in Teens Driving Teens and 8^th place in Visual Arts; Rhylee Gros, VAL St. Mary, placed 2^nd individual in Consumer Decision Making and 7^th in Photography; Izabella Clement, E. D White, placed 8^th and was awarded Most Creative in Upcycled Fashion; Jaiden Porche, Central Lafourche, placed 8^th individual and 2^nd place team in Dairy Cattle Judging; Anthony Plaisance, Central Lafourche, placed 6^th individual and 2^nd place team in Dairy Cattle Judging; Reese Borne, Central Lafourche, placed 4^th individual and 2^nd place team in Dairy Cattle Judging, 3^rd place team in Horse Judging, and 10^th place individual and 2^nd place team in Poultry Judging; Adele Stein, Central Lafourche, placed 2^nd place team in Dairy Cattle Judging, 3^rd place team in Horse Judging, 5^th place team in Poultry Judging and was chosen as a State Equine Ambassador; Dane Durocher, Central Lafourche, 6^th place individual in Fishing Sports and 5^th place team Poultry Judging; Rana Orgeron, Member-at-Large, 6^th place in Healthy Living Talk; Jadin Rose, Thibodaux High, 10^th place in Healthy Living Talk; Alexis Lyons, Central Lafourche, 9^th place individual and 3^rd place team in Horse Judging; Aubre Leger, Central Lafourche, 7^th place individual and 3^rd place team in Horse Judging; Madelyn Fossum, Central Lafourche, 8^th place individual and 2^nd place team in Meat Identification, 2^nd place in Photography, 6^th place individual and 2^nd place team in Poultry Judging, 7^th place in Visual Arts, and was chosen as a State Shooting Sports Ambassador; Hunter Poche, Thibodaux High, 4^th place individual and 2^nd place team, Meat Identification, and was chosen as a State Shooting Sports Ambassador; Connor Hitt, Raceland Middle, 5^th place Teens Driving Teens and 5^th place Outdoor Skills Team; Braydon Lepine, Central Lafourche, Mason Rodriguez, Member-at-Large, and Thomas Williams, St. Mary’s, 5^th place team, Outdoor Skills; Toni Arnold, Central Lafourche, 8^th place individual and 2^nd place team, Poultry Judging; Kale Guidry, South Lafourche, 5^th place team, Poultry Judging; Brooklyn Abraham, Macaylee Brown, Brayden Durocher, and Aubrey Keehn, Thibodaux Middle, 3^rd place team, Robotics; Logan Curole, E. D. White won 3^rd place in Visual Arts; and Rylun Guidry, Larose-Cut Off, was chosen as a State STEM Leadership Board member.

Beaux Curole, E. D. White, was awarded the Cliff Williams Memorial Scholarship. Other 4-H’ers participating were Owen Kiff, South Lafourche High, and Cameron Legendre and Bree Sanford, Central Lafourche High. Congratulations to all 4-H’ers who represented Lafourche Parish at 4-H University!

State Records Winners

Congratulations to the following 4-H’ers from Lafourche who excelled in the State Records Contest.

• Logan Curole, 4-H Ignite Conference
• Beaux Curole, 4-H Ignite Conference
• Toni Arnold, National 4-H Congress
• Madelyn Fossum, Alternate National 4-H Conference
• Jaxon Arnold, 6^th Grade Winner, $200
• Jonah Curole, 6^th Grade Winner, $200
• Ataleigh Gaspard, 5^th Grade Winner, $150
• Sophie Wolverton, 5^th Grade Winner, $150
• Ruthie Danos, 5^th Grade Winner, $150
• Anabelle Naquin, 4^th Grade Winner, $100

The Monthly Focus:

Beyond Ready!

As we embark on a new school year, we are excited to share all that 4-H has to offer! In line with our national theme of Beyond Ready, we will explore opportunities in 4-H to help you become Beyond Ready for school, for work, for life--and everything that comes with it! We can’t wait to share all of the opportunities in 4-H at the September club meetings!

You Can Find it on the Web - Lafourche Website.

Please take the time to look at the Lafourche website at www.lsuagcenter.com or visit our Lafourche Parish 4-H Facebook page for updates. We are always open to suggestions, so if there is something you think we should add to our website that would help, please feel free to let us know. For more information on any of the activities listed, please contact Suzanne Troxclair at stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu or 985-446-1316.