Category: Camp

Orange County 4-H Summer Camp: Opportunities for Everyone

by Melinda Souers
March 21, 2025

Orange County 4-H Summer Camp: Opportunities for Everyone Looking for fun and engaging educational opportunities for your kids this summer? The Orange County 4-H program has a wide variety of themed day camp options for all ages – even teens! ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Conservation, Health & Nutrition, Horticulture, Livestock, Money Matters, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: #camp, #daycamp, 4-H Events, Healthy Living, Horticulture, Life Skills, Ocextension, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Youth

2024 Orange County 4-H Summer Day Camps

by Erin Reichel
April 26, 2024

Are you still looking for fun activities for your kids to do over the summer? UF/IFAS Extension Orange County 4-H has solutions for you! Each summer we offer two 5 day long half-day camps for kids ages 8-12, as well as one half-day camp for ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Events, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: #4-HGrowshere, #OC4H, 4-H, 4-H Events, Ocextension, Orange County, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Youth

4-H Makes Learning Fun – and Effective

by Melinda Souers
August 29, 2023

Learn by doing The 4-H slogan is “learn by doing.” Experiential learning is integral to 4-H project work and related educational programs (Diem and Levings, 2022). Not surprisingly, actively engaging youth participants in their own learning ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers, Events
Tags: #Learn_by_Doing, #Make_Learning_Fun, #OC4H, 4-H Events, Life Skills, Ocextension, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Youth

Orange County 4-H Environmental Explorers Summer Day Camp

by Erin Reichel
July 26, 2023

They say time flies when you are having fun, and we sure are having a fun summer with our Orange County 4-H day camps! Environmental Explorers! Last month in June we hosted the first year of our "Environmental Explorers" summer day camp ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, , Events, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: #4-HCamp, 4-H, 4-H Events, Ocextension, Summer Camp, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Youth

Summer 2023 4-H Residential Summer Camp Scholarships NOW OPEN

by Erin Reichel
November 17, 2022

While the "winter" months have their own appeal, I for one will be counting down the days until summer. As a kid I always loved summer as well and one of my favorite pastimes was attending sleep-away camp. What I loved about summer camp was ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers, Events, Relationships & Family, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: #OC4H, 4-H, 4-H Events, Youth

Orange County 4-H Summer Day Camps

by Melinda Souers
March 30, 2022

With spring break behind us, it won’t be long until school is out, and parents are looking for quality activities for their children. The Orange County 4-H Program is offering several day camp opportunities this summer that can keep kids learning ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Health & Nutrition, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: #4-HGrowshere, #OC4H, 4-H, 4-H Events, Healthy Living, Life Skills, Ocextension, Water Conservation, Youth

A Summer of Virtual 4-H Experiences: Three Lessons Learned

by Melinda Souers
July 31, 2020

It was recently noted that anyone in the year 2015 who answered the question “where do you see yourself in five years?” would have been completely wrong! Certainly, those of us in the Florida 4-H program never would have guessed that our ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Events, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: #OC_4H, #Orange4H, COVID-19, Life Skills, Ocextension, Youth

Orange County 4-H Goes Virtual

by Melinda Souers
April 27, 2020

A Shift to Virtual 4-H Experiences It seems that so much of life has shifted to an online or virtual version of what was once an in-person experience, and 4-H is no exception. When this abrupt shift occurred, Orange County 4-H was headed into ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers
Tags: #4-HGrowshere, #OC4H, 4-H, 4-H Events, Life Skills, Ocextension, Orange County, Youth

It’s Not Too Soon to Think about 4-H Summer Camp

by Melinda Souers
February 3, 2020

It’s Not Too Soon to Think about 4-H Summer Camp Have you started thinking about summer camps for your school-aged kids? Spring break is around the corner and that is the peak time when camps start recruiting for summer enrollment and families ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, , Health & Nutrition
Tags: #OC4H, 4-H, 4-H Events, Event, Healthy Living, Life Skills, Ocextension, S.T.E.M., Youth

Healthy Habits for Kids

by Melinda Souers
July 31, 2019

Everyone wants kids to develop habits that lead to healthy lifestyles. Unfortunately, statistics show the current trend is toward less healthy children. According to the American Academy for Pediatrics, almost one third of school-age children ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, , Health & Nutrition
Tags: #4-HGrowshere, #OC_4H, 4-H, Health, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Ocextension, Youth

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