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Service
Service is a vital part of 4-H at all levels. It provides a benefit to the community and gives the individual collegiate 4-H member a sense of growth.
Collegiate 4-H at Texas Tech University participates in monthly community service projects that benefit the local community. Some of the service projects that our members have recently participated in include an Easter Egg Hunt at the Lubbock Children’s Home, a blood drive supporting a local Agricultural teacher, Christmas card making for a Lubbock nursing home, and Arbor Day on the Texas Tech campus.
Our members also participate in national community service projects. This April members of the Texas Tech Collegiate 4-H club will collaborate with District 2 youth 4-H to provide military families in the South Plains with an afternoon of ice cream and fun. Known as “OMK in LBK,” the event is an effort for 4-H members at all levels to honor local military families.
Leadership
In an effort to express our gratitude to 4-H, our members participate in activities with area youth 4-H clubs throughout the year.
Judging district and county food show and fashion events is just the beginning of our leadership activities. Members of our organization present monthly programs to area 4-H clubs, and they’ve also helped with livestock projects, scholarship applications, and record book critiques.
If your club or group would like for Collegiate 4-H to present a program at your monthly 4-H meeting, please fill out this application and mail it to the address listed.
Fundraising
The Collegiate 4-H club coordinates two annual fundraising projects.
The first is a Kenneth Wyatt Painting Raffle. Members sell raffle tickets beginning in September each fall. Tickets are also sold the morning of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources annual Homecoming Breakfast. The painting is then raffled off at the Breakfast. A new print is raffled each year. Click here to view this year’s print. You do not need to be present to win. Tickets are sold for $2 each or 3 for $5. If you are interested in purchasing tickets please visit the contact page to e-mail one of the officers.
The second fundraiser that Collegiate 4-H coordinates is their “Game Day” event. There are several purposes for the event. The first is to assist Collegiate 4-H in becoming more involved with the youth 4-H clubs. Second, the event serves as an opportunity to recruit future Red Raiders, and of course, finally, the event is used a fundraiser for the organization. Participants attending “Game Day” get to meet Raider Red and the Masked Rider. Lunch is provided, and then they get to see a Lady Raider Basketball Game. Other activities will vary from year to year, but overall it is a wonderful event for all 4-H members, parents, and extension agents. If you would like to participate in “Game Day” please fill out the flyer and mail it to the address listed.
Money collected from our fundraisers is used to help our members attend National 4-H Conference each February. We also give back to the youth 4-H by donating a scholarship to a graduating senior each summer at Texas 4-H Roundup.
National Conference
Each February members of the Texas Tech Collegiate 4-H Club attend the National Collegiate 4-H Conference. The location of National Conference rotates regions each year; therefore, every year, it is in a new city.
In 2009, 8 of our members attended the National Conference held in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. For information on this year’s conference, please visit the Conference home page.
While at Conference, delegates share club activity and service ideas, participate in a national community service project, and have a chance to tour the area. Team building activities and personal development workshops are offered at National Conference to help our members grow as individuals. Additionally, conference delegates get to meet other collegiate 4-H members from colleges and universities across the country.