2025 Project Completion and Fair Requirements
Career Record Book
4-H Project Selection
Judging Checklist
Project Judging Information
Animal Project Information
4-H Career Record Book
To help keep track of all your accomplishments throughout your 4-H years and for completing your achievement award. This opens in a word document so you can continue to add each year.
4-H Project Selection
It's time to select your 4-H projects for this year's club work and county fair participation! To help you select the project(s) you may be interested in, think about the below questions:
- What things do you like to do for fun?
- What hobbies do you have?
- What would you like to learn to do?
- What knowledge and/or skills do you already have in a project area?
- Are there any special needs/items that are required to be able to complete the project?
- Space: Including considerations for livestock, animal, and plant projects
- Equipment: Including special equipment, what you currently have, what you may need to purchase, etc.
- Time Frame: Some projects are multiple-year projects, others have activities spread over several months, and some can be completed in a few short weeks or days.
- Materials/Supplies: Including quantities, costs, etc.
- Other People Involved: Some projects require group activities, presentations, mentors, etc.
- How much time do you have to spend on a 4-H project each week/month?
- What adult/teen do you know that can help you with your project?
- How many 4-H projects can you realistically complete in a year? (A good rule of thumb is approximately one project for each year that you’ve been in 4-H
Judging Checklist
Hello 4-Her! You can "make your best, better" during pre-fair judging by following a few simple suggestions:
Between Now & General Project Judging
- Review project requirements and your book (the judges received the requirements and are looking to make sure you completed what is required).
- Plan what you are taking to judging (exhibit/display) – do not wait until the last minute to put it together!
- Practice what you will say during the interview with the judge- be ready to share what you have done this year in 4-H
- Complete your project book in a neat and orderly fashion
The Night Before Judging! What do I need to do to be ready to go?
- Review your exhibit/display
- Gather everything you need for judging day and put it by the door so you won't forget anything
- Review the important facts in your project book
- Review the important facts about 4-H for tiebreaker questions
- Get plenty of sleep!
It's General Project Judging Day! Now what?
- Eat a healthy meal
- Be on time for judging (plan to arrive 15 minutes early)
- Be ready to share what you have learned during this project – you’ll have 5-10 minutes to share with the judge what you have learned
Winning 4-H Plan- a plan for 4-H members with special needs to complete 4-H projects
Project Judging
General Project Judging consists of a one-on-one interview with a project judge. Members will have 10 minutes to share their 4-H project with a judge, answer a few questions about what they learned and their display, and receive feedback regarding his/her project.
4-H Style Revue Narration Form
2025 Judging information coming soon
Animal Project Information
Online DUNF Completion
Quality Assurance
Skillathon Information