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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Firsts: Part 2! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Happy New Year! Wait, I said that already, in Firsts: Part 1. So here we go with Part 2! All of the 4-H FIRSTS reported in Part 1 were happening in Maine and the darn program still wasn’t even officially called […]
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Firsts: Part 1! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Happy New Year! That’s what we yell on the first day of the year. Anyway, I yelled it, myself, again, this year. Did you? So, January FIRST! It’s good to be first. Everyone wants to be first. Nobody wants to be […]
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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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Maine, the Way Gifts Should Be By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development I may have mentioned a few times in previous posts that I used to work here. I was a member of the UMaine State 4-H Staff from 1992-1999. It was the chance of a lifetime. But an opportunity […]
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The 4-H Silver Cups of Franklin County By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you had planned. That’s one of those facts of life, I think. Oh, you may be successful in the endeavor, but the path to the success is just not […]
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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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Over the past few weeks, Community Central has been working with 3rd-grade students at McMahon Elementary School to learn all about bats! While learning about bat habitats, students each colored a page of a mural without knowing what the full photo looked like! Each habitat needs four things: water, food, shelter and space. Students have been […]
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$$ for 4-H! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development I used to work in Maine. I left Maine to work “away” for a while back in 1999. Now I work here again! My first day back with the UMaine State 4-H Office was August 24, 2015. It was a beautiful […]
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Community Central Lewiston has officially kicked off the new 4-H year! Yesterday, students at McMahon Elementary enjoyed the Mainly Physics Roadshow. The roadshow, hosted by David Sturm of the University of Maine Orono Department of Physics and Astronomy, demonstrates concepts of physics in a fun, interactive way. Later, over 100 students and their families joined us for dinner […]
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