UGA Cooperative Extension

Camden County Extension Office:
4-H Youth Development
Kings Bay 4-H Club

The Kings Bay Youth Center offers 4-H programs in conjunction with their Boys & Girls Club Programs.

Purpose: The Kings Bay 4-H Club has been formed to provide a healthy active way of developing a greater appreciation for the Arts and Sciences. Our club will give club members the chance to learn and serve and to experience the joys of art and nature. Our club members will be active in the community. Leading youth through positive interaction and being strong advocates of education and recreation. These lessons will aid our club members throughout life to be healthy, productive and active members of the community.

Key leaders: Joy Jest, Sierra Hooper and Christine West

The benefits of our club:

1. To offer a social environment.
2. Develop Gardening , Art and Photography skills.
3. Offers a learning environment away from school.
4. Provides the opportunities for young people to appreciate our earth, cultural arts and all that it has to offer.
5. Develop life skills
6. Develop well rounded young adults.
7. Members learn responsibility and leadership skills.
8. Members learn how to work as a team and that each member of the team plays an important role.

Goals of the club:

1. Conduct weekly meetings.
2. Conduct regular science experiments, photography and art lessons and document information about our experiences.
3. Plant a Garden and participate in Art and Photography contests.
4. Compost using 2 compost bins (1 garden scraps and 1 kitchen scraps.)
5. Community involvement through service projects and education.

National Partnership of Georgia 4-H and Navy begins at Kingsbay Naval Base

Over fifteen staff members from Navy Child & Youth Programs and Navy Fleet and Family Support from Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base attended Georgia 4-H 102: The Basics of Starting Georgia 4-H Clubs as a result of the partnership between National 4-H Headquarters/USDA and the US Navy.

Staff members at the Kings Bay Youth Center will lead 4-H programming on base in afterschool programs in collaboration with Amber Defore, Camden County 4-H Agent. The training represents the first signs of the formal partnership in Georgia. State 4-H Leader, Dr. Bo Ryles, led a discussion of 4-H, Cooperative Extension and its history during the three day training on base. "Georgia 4-H is a proud partner with many of our installations in the state" said Dr. Ryles, "Kings Bay recently won the Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award and Georgia 4-H is proud to continue Making the Best Better for youth at Kings Bay."

Contact

For more information about Camden County 4-H Youth Development Programs, contact Amber Defore at adefore@uga.edu or Beth Carter at carterB@uga.edu or call (912) 576-3219.

Visit the Georgia 4-H website at www.georgia4h.org.