4-H Clover College is a four-day series of hands-on workshops for youth presented by Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County. Emphasis is on science, agricultural literacy, healthy living, career development and citizenship/leadership. Many of the projects made during the sessions are eligible to be exhibited at the Lancaster County Super Fair in July.
2021 Clover College featured 48 workshops with 93 youth who participated (varying from 1 to 15 classes each) with a total 627 class registrations. New workshops this year included: “Virtual Reality Building,” “All About DNA,” “Decorative Couching (sewing technique),” “Steak Science,” “On the Bike Path (bicycle safety),” “Derby Cars,” “Loom Weaving” and “Care Blankets.”
A special thank you to the nearly 60 instructors and assistants! More photos are online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/unlextlanco/albums.
Asked what was their favorite thing they learned in Clover College, youth said:
• Ian — “How to program and use Google 3D glasses.”
• Piper — “All the bugs you find are not bad. You can study them and they are actually very interesting.”
• Kyler — “Rocketry — that rockets can be really big. And how to program words into a Micro:bit.”
• Tessa — “In Cluck Cluck Quack, I liked learning where eggs come from and how people treat them when they raise chicks. And about the different parts of an egg.”