MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Aug. 14: State Fair Pre-entries sign-ups Due

Sept. 03: State Fair entries due at office

Sept. 04: LNCO Cloverbuds

Sept. 08: MICO Jr. Leaders

Sept. 08: MICO 4-H Council

Sept. 11: MICO Cloverbuds

Sept. 24: LNCO 4-H Council

Oct. 01: Enrollment Begins

Oct. 01: Record Books & Pin Apps Due

Oct. 5-12: National 4-H Week

Oct. 11-12: 48 Hours of 4-H

State Fair Pre-Entries are due August 14

Kansas State Fair - September 5-14, 2025

Any 4-H member who is 9-18 years old by January 1, 2025 can exhibit their purple ribbon-winning exhibit at the 2025 Kansas State Fair. Please check the Kansas State Fair Book for entry limits and rules/guidelines.



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Miami County State Fair Information:

Registration is due by 4:30pm on August 14, 2025. The 4-H'er must be 9 by January 1, 2025 to compete in most departments and have to have received a purple ribbon on their exhibit at the 2025 Miami County Fair. You can pre-enter by coming to the office and filling out a form, or by filling out the google form at: https://forms.gle/pZgFQ6mktiM3gY4X7. I will be sending a separate email reminder to Fashion Revue participants and Visual Arts Selections about State Fair.

Please refer to the Kansas State Fair Handbook for limits per project/project area and for Class Number. Kansas State Fair 4-H Handbook

If entering Fashion Revue, Dog, or Demonstration, please come to our office to complete registration. There are extra forms and information that we need for those projects, as well as fees to be paid. All payments must be paid at the MdC Paola office.  

Visual Arts are selected and limited to 5 per county and were selected at the Miami County Fair. No Reading or Miscellaneous Projects are able to compete. Check the handbook for department limits.

Projects that can be entered on this form: Aerospace/Rocketry, Agronomy, Ag Mechanics Welding, Astronomy, Building Block Engineering, Computer Science, Electric & Renewable Energy, Entomology, Fiber Arts, Foods & Nutrition, Food Preservation, Forestry, Geology, Horticulture, Interior Design & Architecture, Photography, Robotics, Sewing & Textiles Design, Shooting Sports Educational Items, Shopping in Style Displays/Posters, Small Engines, Veterinary Sciences, Wildlife & Woodworking.

We will take exhibits out that can be carried by one person and will fit into the back of our Explorer (No larger than 30 inches tall). We will start accepting exhibits on August 25th, and they must be in the office by 4:30 pm on September 3rd.

If you have questions, please contact us at the Paola Office.

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Linn County State Fair Information:



Linn County pre-entry sign-up will be available at the Linn County Fair on Thurs., August 7 from 1-3pm in the 4-H Building or at the Mound City office after the fair is over. Must be

pre-entered by August 14th.

This includes the following projects: Clothing & Textiles, Crops, Energy Management, Entomology, Fiber Arts, Foods & Nutrition, Foods Preservation, Forestry, Geology & Lapidary,

Home Environment, Horticulture, Photography, Communications (Demonstrations/Illustrated Talk, Project Talk, Poetry & Prose), Shooting Sports Educational Displays, STEM (Ag Mechanics, Architectural Block Construction, Astronomy, Computers, Robotics, Rocketry, Unmanned Aerial System, and Educational Exhibits), Wildlife, Woodworking, Rabbit, and Poultry Exhibits

Fashion Revue and Visual Arts are limited and those qualifying exhibits are selected by the judges at Fair.

The Shooting Sports Celebration Night

Date: August 24

Time: 4 pm

Location to be determined.

We will be having an Ice Cream Social

We will also be ending our Rifle Raffle and drawing that day. 

Contact Shannon Moser with any questions you

might have. She can be reached at 913-731-2197

or by email mdc4hshootingsports@gmail.com

September Events

MdC District Cloverbuds

Cloverbud meetings are held in both Linn & Miami County locations. Both meeting will cover the same topics, so there is no need to attend both, you may attend the meeting in either county. The topic for this month is "Engineering".

LNCO Cloverbud Meeting is September 4, 5:30 p.m. at the Linn County 4-H Building.

MICO Cloverbud Meeting is September 11, 5:30 p.m. at the Paola Extension Office.



Kansas State Fair

September 5-14, 2025

2025 Kansas State Fair 4-H Information page

Record Books, Pin Applications & Club Seal Applications

Pin Applications, Record Books, & Club Seal Applications

Due October 1

MdC District 4-H Pin Application Information & Forms can be found on our pin awards page.

MdC District 4-H Project Record Information & Forms are found on our record book page.

If you have questions on record books or pins you can watch the 4-H Project Report Form Tutorial Video.

Call your extension office if you have questions.

For steps to "Joining 4-H", "Selecting Projects", or "How to Guides" for 4HOnline go to our Marais des Cygnes District 4-H page.

When enrolling into 4-H we recommend that you enroll in a Community Club in Linn County or Miami County, but if that won't work, you can join a project club.

If you have a Community club and want to add projects that have Project clubs such as dog, rabbit, poultry & so on. Please make sure all projects are list under your Community club.

Our Project clubs in Linn County or Miami County. For example, when you are enrolling in dog, you might want to add the dog club to your list of clubs, rabbits, add the rabbit club, & so on. If you do add Project Clubs please remember to keep your Community Club as your Primary Club.

Contact your local extension office with any questions regarding the enrollment process.

Opportunities

4-H Judging Database 2025-2027

Adults interested in judging county and state 4-H projects, including animal exhibits (livestock, horse, dog, rabbit, etc. shows), static exhibits, communications and 4-H Day events, are invited to register for the Kansas 4-H Judges Database.

Potential judges are not required to be listed on the database in order to judge.

Registering for and being listed on the database allows for more exposure and opportunities to judge. It also ensures that judges working with youth are screened prior to working with youth.

The database is updated annually, and we ask that judges who were previously listed, complete the process annually to ensure that information is kept current.

By completing the online judges registration process, you are agreeing to be screened according to the Kansas 4-H Code of Conduct and policy. Once the screening process is complete, your information will be made available to local extension units. Staff interested in hiring you to judge will contact you directly.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

This 4-H Judge Registration system is open until September 30th, 2025 at 11:59 PM and will re-open again on July 1, 2026.