The OSUEA 4-H Awards are now open for nominations! Time to reflect back on the year and consider submitting your nomination for one of the MANY award categories.

AWARD DESCRIPTIONS

PLEASE read this spreadsheet for 2015: NAE4HA Award Description Table

Service Awards Please use these guidelines from 2014.  (All service awards must be submitted to Ashley Jones and NOT Submitted online)
Specialty Awards
Communicator Awards
First Timer’s Application (wont be live until January 28th!)
IMPORTANT DATES
February 2, 2015 – state application submission deadline
April 1, 2015 – regional application submission deadline
May 1, 2015 – national application submission deadline

For more information, contact your OSUEA 4-H Member Recognition Committee Chairs, Laurie Rice (laurie.rice@oregonstate.edu) or Ashley Jones (ashley.jones@oregonstate.edu).

Don’t Forget! 
All Communicator Awards and Special Awards MUST be submitted online: The new NAE4HA Awards site is now accepting online nominations. Check out the new online awards site and submit your nominations today!

First timer’s National Conference Scholarship: If you have never attended an NAE4-HA conference, then you should consider applying for this award.  Stay tuned for the application link! All applications should be submitted to Ashley Jones.

Service Awards: If you would like to nominate someone for a service award, please submit your nomination to Ashley Jones. To nominate one of your colleagues or yourself for the Achievement in Service Awards (3-7 years active member), Distinguished Service Award (more than 7 years), or Meritorious Award (more than 15 years service), then submit a 20-25 word bio and a vita (download from SOARS) and send to Ashley.  Please read these guidelines for more information.

2013 OSUEA 4-H Award Winners

Service Awards

Meritorious Service Award

David White

Distinguished Service Award

Maggie Livesay

Susan Hunt

Achievement in Service

Barb Brody

Jan Williams

Communication Awards

Educational Technology Team Award

Laurie Rice, Jeremy Green, Jamie Davis, Jon Gandy, Candy Botham, Amy Derby, and Karisssa Dishon

Promotional Piece Team

Jeremy Green, Candi Botham and Jon Gandy

Published Photo

Robin Galloway

Educational Package Team

Barb Brody and Gail Langellotto, Lauren Toby, Jamie Fitch, Ashley Joyce, Maureen Quinn, Melinda Manore, Anne Hoisington, Elaine Shrumpf and Elaine Laizure

Educational Piece – Individual

Maureen Hosty

Promotional Piece Individual

Candi Bothum

Specialty Awards

Diversity

Barb Brody

Excellence in Camping

Dani Annala and Lynette Black

Excellence in Animal Science Programming

Barb Brody, K. Scott Jensen, Nikki Ruiz

Excellence in Natural Resources/Environmental Education Individual

Laurie Rice

Excellence in Natural Resources/Environmental Education Team

Barb Brody, Ken Dickey, Martha Lazo, John Moyes, Tom Whatley, Jon Wood, Paula Barnhart

Excellence in Global Citizenship

Maggie Livesay and Lillian Larwood

Stiles Memorial Award

Laurie Rice

First Time Conference Attendee

Emily Anderson

Power of Youth

Barb Brody

Excellence in Teen Programming

Joy Jones

The OSUEA 4-H Awards are now open for nominations!  Time to reflect back on the year and consider submitting your nomination for one of the MANY award categories.

Award Descriptions

•  Service Awards  (All service awards must be submitted to Robin Galloway and NOT Submitted online)
•  Specialty Awards
•  Communicator Awards
•  First Timer’s Application

Important Dates

February 10, 2014 – state application submission deadline
April 1, 2014 – regional application submission deadline
May 1, 2014 – national application submission deadline

For more information, contact your  OSUEA 4-H  Member Recognition Committee Chairs, Maureen Hosty (maureen.hosty@oregonstate.edu) or Robin Galloway (robin.galloway@oregonstate.edu).

New this Year

All Communicator Awards and Special Awards MUST be submitted online:  The new NAE4HA Awards site is now accepting online nominations.  Check out the new online awards site and submit your nominations today!

NAE4-HA Awards Technology Training Webinar – now online.   Visit the site here

First timer’s National Conference Scholarship.  If you have never attended an NAE4-HA conference, then you should consider applying for this award.  Click here to download the application.  2014-nae4ha-first-timer-app   All applications should be submitted to Robin Galloway.

Service Awards:  If you would like to nominate someone for a service award, please submit your nomination to Robin Galloway.  To nominate one of your colleagues or yourself for the Achievement in Service Awards (3-7 years active member), Distinguished Service Award (more than 7 years), or Meritorious Award  (more than 15 years service), then submit a 20-25 word bio and a vita (download from SOARS) and send to Robin.

NAE4-HA Awards Process Goes Live!

The NAE4-HA national awards committee is excited to announce that the 2014 Awards Program is now open! They are equally  excited to share that, starting this year, the complete application process and peer review will be done online (starting at our state level)!

The Board’s Member Services Team and the NAE4-HA National Office have been working tirelessly these last few months to make this happen.  The goals are to simplify the application process for members, to streamline the judging process, and to preserve submissions for historical purposes.

Need Some Help?  

NAE4-HA will hold a webinar on how to use the online system on Tuesday, December 10, at 2:00 PM EST.  It will be recorded and posted for on-demand viewing.  Stay tuned for registration details.

STATE DEADLINES 

Please not the following important deadlines for our OSUEA 4-H Awards

• February 10th – All state nominations due to Robin Galloway
• March 12th – Awards Announced at state 4-H/FCH conference

Congratulations to our 2013 OSUEA 4-H Award Winners

Service Awards

Meritorious Service Award

Maureen Hosty

Distinguished Service Awards

Wendy Hein and Carolyn Ashton

Achievement in Service Awards

Pat Willis and Dani Annala

Twenty-five Year Service Awards

Susie Busler and John Baggott

Specialty Awards

Communicator Awards

Congratulations to our Oregon 4-H colleagues who were recently announced as Regional NAE4-HA Award Winners!

Please help us thank the following 4-H Extension staff who received these awards:

News Story- Barb Brody

Excellence in 4-H Club Support (Individual) – Mike Knutz

Stiles Memorial Scholarship – Jamie Davis

Search for Excellence in Teen Programming – Maureen Hosty, Wendy Hein and Pat Willis

These regional award winners will now advance to the National 4-H Awards selection.

There has been some confusion on nominating colleagues for ASA, DSA, and MSA awards.  According to the NAE4HA awards website, only the award winners can submit their applications.  However, the OSUEA4HA awards committee determines the Oregon winners.

Please review the following OREGON guidelines for these awards:

Application for DSA, MSA and ASA Awards (back for 2013 -a streamlined application)

Visit the Eligibility page of this webblog to see who is eligible for ASA, DSA and MSA awards.

Please DO NOT submit the nomination to NAE4HA directly.  We will work with the Oregon Award winners to have them submit their awards AFTER they are selected.

Our new 2013 NAE4-A Awards Application are now available and online.   Click on one of the links below and start submitting those applications.

2013 NAE4HA application (fillable PDF)* – be sure to save the document with a new title that includes your last name

NAE4HA 2013 application (word)

Yes!  Its that time of year again.  Time to start submitting your applications for OSUEA4-HA and NAE4-HA awards.  All award applications are due February 15th to Robin Galloway.

ONLINE APPLICATIONS SUBMISSIONS:  We are again streamlining the process so that all applications will be submitted online directly to OSUEA4-HA Awards Co-Chair, Robin Galloway.

2013 APPLICATION:  We are waiting for the NAE4HA awards committee to update the 2013 application. We will notify all our members as soon as that is available.  In the meantime, check out the award categories and start pulling together the information you need for your application.

Review the Applications of our 2012 winners! If you would like to see some samples from our 2012 award winners, check out the abstracts and samples from our winners last year.

Congratulations to our very own . . .  Pat Willis, Jeremy Green, Lynette Black and Jon Mayer (now with Florida 4-H Extension).  They have won the prestigious NAE4-HA Education Technology Team Award.  Our Oregon team will receive their award at the National NAE4-HA conference in Orlando, FL this fall.

The Educational Technology Award is designed to:

• To recognize the use of technology (such as computers, video, satellite, web pages, etc.) in delivering or managing educational programs.
• To expand the use of technology education in 4-H.
• To promote logical problem-solving techniques using educational technologies.

Pat, Jeremy, Lynette and Jon wrote, developed, and produced a series of science education videos that can be found on several sites including You Tube.  If you have not checked out their award check it out here.

Here is a link to their national award winning video.

Congratulations Pat, Lynette, Jeremy and Jon!