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Item 4-H & Forestry Afterschool Clubs: A Collaboration to Foster(St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2009-10) Grant, Samantha; Gupta, Angela; Lorek Strauss, AndreaResearch indicates that youth who have direct experience in nature mentored by an adult are more likely to choose actions that benefit the environment as adults (Chawla, 2006). The University of Minnesota Extension’s 4-H and Forestry Afterschool program combined the 4-H structure and various forestry curricula to build environmental knowledge and foster stewardship attitudes and behaviors in third through fifth grade club members at three different schools across Minnesota. The program met the goal of involving students in science, a part of 4-H’s national Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) initiative. It also addressed a need identified by professional forestry groups to interest youth in forestry 8 careers. Evaluation results revealed statistically significant changes in the measurement of knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and skills related to stewardship behavior. Correlation analysis showed support for building high quality youth development environments.Item Engaging Youth in Agriculture Career Exploration: 4-H Science of Agriculture Challenge(University of Minnesota Extension, 2015) Rice, Joshua; Davis, Sharon; Rugg, Brad; Freeman, Dorothy; Grant, Samantha; Woeste, Marcia; Kostick, Renee; Ignaszewski, Tracy; Ward, Ann MarieThe Minnesota 4-H Science of Agriculture Challenge is a new youth development program that focuses on engaging youth in hands-on agriculture exploration while increasing agricultural literacy, enhancing STEM skills, and educating youth about career opportunities that exist within agricultural sciences. 4-H members identify an agricultural issue within their community and work with a business and industry mentor to apply STEM concepts to develop a potential solution. Teams share their research and results in their communities and at the state contest. The inaugural Science of Agriculture event was held June 17-19, of 2015 with 12 teams participating. There were a total of 44 youth participants with an average age of 15 years old. Twenty five (57%) of the participants were female and 19 (43%) were male. The youth were asked to complete a post event survey to determine the exposure to agriculture they experienced during the program and there interest in pursuing an agricultural career at the programs completion. The final survey response rate was 100% (N=44). Forty youth (92%) indicated that they had met with an agriculture community leader. Thirty nine youth (89%) planned to pursue a career in agriculture science and 35 youth (79%) wanted to study agriculture in college. The Minnesota 4-H Science of Agriculture Challenge has the potential to fill the hole that currently exists in the agricultural career pipeline while teaching youth that their participation in 4-H can lead them to college and/or trade school and into a viable career in agricultural sciences.Item Episode 32: Communicating with Financial Stakeholders(2018-08-30) Robideau, Kari; Grant, Samantha; Kelly-Collins, ErinDo you know how to effectively communicate with financial stakeholders? Learn tips and tools that will help you explain the impacts of youth development programs to key financial stakeholders. Erin and Sam share their expertise on how to identify stakeholders, what they want to know about your program and real stories of success!Item Episode 34: Why should Youth Workers Care About Data Viz?(2018-10-25) Robideau, Kari; Grant, Samantha; Beshar, Emily"Why should you care about Data Viz? Create reports that get read and data that gets used with the tips and tricks provided by Sam and Emily in this podcast! They give information on Data Viz that you can use to help funders and stakeholders understand the impacts made in youth development program. "Item Episode 37: Can Focus Groups be Conducted Online?(2019-02-28) Robideau, Kari; Grant, Samantha"Can you conduct focus groups in an online setting? In this "podcast within a podcast", Kari and Sam discuss how focus groups were conducted with 4-H adult volunteers in a web-based online environment. Kari shares the background of this project, how the online focus groups were set-up and what was learned from this process."Item Episode 52: Four Ideas to Jump-start new and creative programming(2020-05-14) Robideau, Kari; Grant, SamanthaHow can youth workers continue to build strong and creative programs during times of uncertainty and change? Sam Grant, Evaluation Director, shares four ideas to jump-start new and creative program planning when we’re forced to think differently about how we deliver those programs.Item Episode 6: How to fail at storytelling(2016-12-08) Robideau, Kari; Grant, SamanthaStorytelling is powerful. Most youth workers know that, but so often miss the opportunities to gather and tell meaningful stories about youth programs. Sam Grant shares her thoughts on the four ways we mess up storytelling: (1) we make the story about our organization, (2) we want the story to be perfect, (3) we have the story but nothing to back it up, and (4) we try to appeal to emotions and end up victimizing our customers.Item Preliminary findings from the Minnesota 4-H Quality Improvement Study(University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, 2010) Moore, Deborah; Grant, Samantha; McLaughlin, Colleen; Walker, Kate; Shaffer, BrendaThis preliminary report reviews a model currently being field tested using the YPQA tool and innovative data collection methodologies, which use 4-H youth and adult volunteers for assessing and improving youth program quality.Item Science of Agriculture Challenge report(University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, 2015) Grant, SamanthaThe Science of Agriculture Challenge completed its pilot year of implementation in 2014-2015. Twelve teams distributed throughout the state took part in the final showcase which was a 2.5 day event on the St. Paul University of Minnesota campus. This report highlights the project and key evaluation findings.