Way to GO Team Howard County!!

2011 Team Howard County at Horse Jamboree

19 Senior and Junior members of Team Howard County represented Howard County in Ames this past weekend at the 2011 4H Horse Jamboree.  That is an INCREDIBLE number of participants representing our county!!

This was Team Howard County's 3rd year attending Horse Jamboree and every year gets better than the previous year.  We've got a great bunch of kids that know an great amount of information about horses and the equine world and we are all VERY proud of everyone who participated in all of the Team Howard County meetings and events.

A big Thank You to the leaders of the Howard County Horse Project group - Darlene Vsetecka, Barb Reicks and Tess Kennon.  Also greatly appreciated are the parents -- without your support this wouldn't have been possible. 

The 2011 Team Howard County Horse Jamboree Team was:

Seniors:

• Brady Foster
•  Photo - Blue ribbon
• Hippology - Senior Team participant
• Kate Grover
•  Individual Demonstration - Reserve Champion, 2nd place
• Hippology - Senior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Senior Team, 5th place
• Shay Peckham
• Photo - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Senior Team participant
• Stephanie Reicks
•  Photo - Reserve Champion, 2nd place
• Individual Demonstration - Purple ribbon
• Hippology - Senior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Senior Team, 5th place
• Rachel Stika
•  Photo - Purple ribbon
• Poetry - Reserve Champion, 2nd place
• Crafts - zPurple ribbon
  
• Hippology - Senior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Senior Team, 5th place
• Andie Vsetecka
• Individual Demonstration - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Senior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Senior Team, 5th place

Juniors:

• Emi Frohn
• Photo - Blue ribbon
• Poster - Blur ribbon
• Public Speaking - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Junior Team, 5th place
• Hippology - Junior Individual, 7th place
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team, 4th place
• Hallie Frohn
• Poster - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Junior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team participant
• Judd Grover
• Individual Demonstration - Reserve Champion, 2nd place
• Hippology - Junior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team participant
• Thea Hartzell
• Poster - Blue ribbon
• Hippology - Junior Team, 5th place
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team, 4th place
• Cassie Hosek
• Photo - Red ribbon
• Poster - Purple ribbon
• Craft - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Junior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team participant
• Abby Kennon
• Photo - Blue ribbon
• Poster - Blue ribbon
• Craft - Blue ribbon
• Poetry - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Junior Team, 5th place
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team, 4th place
• Cassy Kennon
• Photo - Blue ribbon
• Poster - Blue ribbon
• Craft - Purple ribbon
• Model Horse show
• Natalie Knobloch
• Photo - Champion, 1st place
• Poster - Champion, 1st place
• Craft - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology - Junior Team, 5th place
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team, 4th place
• Autumn Krofton
•  Model Horse show
• Maddy Kuhn
•  Picture - Blue ribbon
• Hippology - Junior Team participant
• McKenzie Mork
•  Photo - Blue ribbon
• Hippology - Junior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team participant
• Kristen Reicks
•  Photo - Blue ribbon
• Hippology - Junior Team participant
• Karissa Stika
• Photo - Blue ribbon
• Poster - Purple ribbon
• Short Story - Champion, 1st place
• Hippology  - Junior Team participant
• Quiz Bowl - Junior Team participant

For ISU's official results and more information about Horse Jamboree use this link - 2011 ISU Horse Jamboree Results 

**If any of the information above is incorrect or there is information missing please contact Lisa at lisawf28@gmail.com to submit corrections.

Jamboree! Are you Ready??

Only a few more days until Team Howard County heads down to Ames for the 2011 4H Horse Jamboree.

The excitement is mounting...the glue is flying...the presentations are being finalized....and the model horses are getting all spiffed up for their trip down the runway. Ok, maybe not so much stress for the model horses but their human counterparts certainly are looking forward to all the fun, excitement and equine education that is Horse Jamboree!!!

Officially, the schedule can be found on the 4H Horse Jamboree site. Unofficially, Saturday is an exhausting - but fun filled - day for the 4Hers and a day of visiting and waiting for the adults. Hippology and Project/Presentation Day keeps the participants very busy with Hippology in the morning for Seniors and afternoon for the Juniors. In between all the Hippology fun each age group have presentations and speeches to give. They also sit down with the judges for their various projects - photos, posters, wood carvings, drawings, and poems - to communicate to the judge the who, what, where and why of their submissions. The day ends (hopefully after being entertained with the Kildee Hall Rain Dance by our very own Darlene & Vanette) with awards for each project/presentation area and Hippology.

Then it's back to the hotels to rest up (Yes, 4Hers, I said rest and not run around like monkeys!) for Sunday....Sunday...Sunday!!

Sunday is the Model Horse Show and Quiz Bowl.
   The Model Horse show is far from a glitzy runway with shallow equine Christy Brinkley's strutting their stuff. It's actually a great horse-less way to show horses and learn more about the correct horse conformation for each breed. Last year, Team Howard County had one participant in this area and she did really well. This year there will be 2 participants - Go T.H.C.!!

   The Quiz Bowl competition is as fun and exciting as it is stressful. Teams of Juniors and Seniors compete against each other in a quiz bowl setting complete with buzzers and scientific nomenclature. T.H.C. has been learning and practicing and practicing and learning since late last year. They are SO ready for this competition that ISU has agreed that T.H.C. can bring their own Staples EASY buttons to use since every question will be so EASY!!

Ok - maybe not every question....but most of them.  Besides, the idea of Horse Jamboree isn't to come home with the most ribbons and awards. 4H Horse Jamboree has 4 purposes:
1. Have FUN
2. LEARN LEARN LEARN
3. Make new friends
5. Challenge yourself

So...finish up those posters, finalize your speeches and get those model horses shined up. (Oh - and don't forget your goals sheets, black T.H.C. vests and 1 colored long sleeve shirt and 1 white long sleeved shirt.)

See you Saturday!!!

TUESDAY 3/8 MEETING POSTPONED

Tonight's meeting is being postponed due to the expected weather. 

The next meeting is

THURSDAY 3/10 

EXTENSION OFFICE

5:30-7:00 PM

We'll have pizza, so bring $2 and something to drink.   See you there!!