Several days throughout the year are dedicated to serving your community. Read here to find out what they are and how you can participate.

Keep up with OMK events all over the state

Each summer a Louisiana 4-H CWF delegation heads to the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF) conference gives 4-H youth the opportunity to explore, develop and refine the civic engagement skills they need to be outstanding leaders in their home communities and at the national level.

Having fun at 4-H camp is a little something extra for military kids in Louisiana. OMK Camp Lagniappe was enjoyed by children of deployed Servicemembers.

Spend a week in Washington DC at the Citizenship Washington Focus Conference with 4-Her’s from across Louisiana. Through sightseeing tours in the living classroom of Washington, D.C., hands-on educational workshops, and visits with your Congressmen, learn about the history of our nation, the leaders who have shaped it, and how you can apply the leadership and citizenship skills you have learned at CWF when you return home.

(Radio News 04/26/10) About 100 youngsters participated in an Earth Day-themed overnight camp at LSU AgCenter’s Grant Walker 4-H Educational Center. The event was part of Operation: Military Kids, a program aimed at helping military personnel and their families meet and get to know others who are having similar experiences. (Runtime: 60 seconds)

4-H members from Phoenix Magnet in Rapides Parish are learning what it means to be good citizens, and they’re showing it through a variety of community service projects.

Operation: Military Kids is hosting a Speak Out for Military Kids (SOMK) Clover College track at this year's 4-H U, with opportunities to join the SOMK State Board. Scholarships are available to anyone interested in attending.

Enjoy all of the fun and beauty of Camp Grant Walker in the springtime and celebrate the Month of the Military Child at 2010 Spring Camp Lagniappe.

The RTTH Program is a partnership between the LSU AgCenter and local community and faith-based partners to bring the findings of evidence-based reading research to the educational community and families with an interest in helping all people learn to read well. As depicted in the research poster, logic modeling of the RTTH Program is helping us assess the effect of reading interventions on reading motivation and proficiency.