On September 15 the 4-H Fix is going to take you to the FAR corners of the world! Visit the 4-H Fix today! You may learn things you didn’t even know existed! Maybe there should be a club for 4-H Fix readers! There are clubs for 4-H Members, after all!
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It’s inevitable. But is there a 4-H Fix for that? Visit the 4-H Fix on August 18 to see what’s changing about the 4-H Fix and what’s staying the same! Visit the 4-H Fix today! Who knows, you might be in it! Just visit the My Hands to Larger Service page.
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Just want to help out but you don’t know how? There’s a 4-H Fix for that!! Visit the 4-H Fix on July 15th and find out how Maine 4-H’ers have been putting their “HANDS to larger service” and really helping out across Maine!! Visit the 4-H Fix today! You’ll be glad you did!
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APRIL is here and we all know that April Showers bring…4-H Alums!? Well, it does if we’re talking about the 4-H Fix! This spring is ALL about our 4-H ALUMS!! On April 7 the 4-H Fix will investigate the meaning of being a Maine 4-H alum in a post entitled “Standing on the shoulders of giants!” Our March 4-H Fix was an introduction […]
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Community Central youth have begun looking at climate and weather. Can you make it rain, inside? Yes! Sort of. Using a few easily found/recycled materials youth found that when several forces work together a storm occurs: humidity, temperature, wind, and high/low-pressure systems. Several of these activities use supplies that you might have at home! Information about […]
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Community Central participants at Front Street in Portland have had a busy few weeks exploring density, polymers, and looking at iron content in breakfast cereal! In Lewiston, 4th Graders finished their exploration of different forms of energy by looking at chemical reactions that produce heat as a by-product and how to build a static electricity […]
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March is Women’s History Month! So on March 10, the 4-H Fix is celebrating by telling the stories of Maine women who helped make Maine 4-H the best, and then made the best even better! On March 24 we tell the story of Brownie Schrumpf, one Maine women who not only had the recipe for making Maine 4-H better, but for […]
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Community Central began 2017 by looking at different forms of energy with 4th Graders at McMahon Elementary. Many of these students participated with Community Central as 3rd Graders and some have attended sessions at community partner locations across Lewiston. To explore potential and kinetic energy youth built tracks for marbles using pipe insulation. The first challenge […]
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Community Central Lewiston’s 2016 sessions ended with a bang and we’re ready for the new year! Over the past couple months youth at the Root Cellar, the Boys and Girls Club Auburn/Lewiston Clubhouse, and Lewiston Housing Authority have been exploring rockets. Youth began by experimenting with film canister explosions, mixing different amounts of Alka Seltzer […]
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Youth across Lewiston have been exploring the density of fluids, including experimenting to see how many fluids they could stack on top of one another. At the Root Cellar, Lewiston Housing Authority, and the Boys and Girls Club, the youth had five fluids to stack on top of one another. In the test tube above the […]
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