4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills.
The 4-H program is all about people sharing, doing, and learning together in all kinds of projects, events and activities through local clubs, special interest clubs, school-based and after-school programs and individual memberships. For more information on 4-H, please visit the national Web site.
Members can choose 4-H Projects that fit their interests, abilities and the places where they live. Projects involve hands-on learning, setting goals, and evaluating one’s progress. 4-Hers can compete with their projects in contests at the local, state regional or national levels.
4-H Pledge
I pledge: My Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
My Hands to larger service, and
My Health to better living,
For my club, my community,
My country and my world.
YO PROMETO USAR . . .
Mi CABEZA para pensar más laro,
Mi CORAZON para una mayor lealtad,
Mis MANOS para dar un servicio mayor, y
Mi SALUD para vivir mejor, por mi Club,
mi Comunidad, mi País, y mi Mundo.
4-H Goals
To increase a member’s knowledge in a variety of project areas, while teaching life-skills such as decision-making, public speaking, and leadership.
These goals can be accomplished through communicating in a group, working cooperatively and being responsible. Members can learn through experience, preparing, designing and evaluating their projects.
Interested parents and other adults have opportunities to grow through working with 4-H members.
4-H Mission
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
While activities focus mainly on the local 4-H Club, members may also participate in group activities and events such as fairs, trips, camping, teen leader trainings, fundraising, achievement programs and county, regional and state learning opportunities.
What Can 4-H Members Do?
- Make new friends
- Learn by doing
- Serve their community
- Become a teen leader
- Enjoy the outdoors
- Enjoy 4-H activities with their families
- Explore their interests
4-H is a national program that helps young people develop knowledge and skills to become capable, caring and contributing citizens. Membership in 4-H is open to all youth, ages of 5 to 19, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or marital/parental status.
Youth in 4-H participate in all kinds of projects, events, and activities through local clubs, special interest clubs, school programs, and individual memberships. Members choose projects to fit their interests, abilities, and the places where they live. 4-H projects involve hands-on learning, setting goals, and evaluating progress.
While activities focus mainly on the local 4-H Club, members may also participate in group activities and events such as fairs, trips, camping, teen leader trainings, fundraising, achievement programs and county, regional and state learning opportunities. The program relies on parent and adult volunteer participation to help youth reach their potential.
4-H is a non-formal educational youth development program of the Cooperative Extension System. The program reaches 7 million youth in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and military installations worldwide. It is the largest youth-serving program in the world with members in 82 countries.