{"id":1537,"date":"2024-08-14T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T23:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T23:09:21","slug":"extension-intern-hosts-show-clothes-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2024\/08\/14\/extension-intern-hosts-show-clothes-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension intern hosts “show” clothes drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

I am in the last week of my internship at the Oregon State University Extension Office in Malheur County and I have had a great summer! If you\u2019ve read my first blog, you might remember that I was looking forward to working with 4-H youth in Malheur County. 4-H was my primary focus over the course of my internship and our fair was July 30th-August 3rd. I got to spend a lot of time with 4-H youth and work to offer them the opportunities they deserve. This summer, I spent a lot of my time preparing for fair and also helping youth with their livestock at fair. My big internship project was the show-clothes drive I hosted. This was so much fun and a great way to allow the greater community to become involved and to help develop 4-H youth.<\/p>\n

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Bennett Johnson and 4-H Youth with show clothes donations. Photo: Tessa Harnden<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Through my internship this summer, I have learned quite a few things and also struggled with some others. The main struggle I\u2019ve worked to overcome is the disappointment with my internship project. While I had a ton of show-clothes donations come in, I struggled to gain traction with the youth and did not have as large of a turn-out as I would have hoped. The show-clothes drive is something that I want to become an annual thing to continue to offer the opportunity to look good and feel good in the show ring! I am so grateful to those that donated to the show-clothes drive and I can\u2019t wait to see how it grows and adapts in the future.<\/p>\n

A key takeaway from my internship is the importance Extension has in working with and in the community. Malheur County is a rural, ag-based county and it is important for the community to stay connected and have the services and opportunities that Extension offers. From questions about yield rates, knowledge about wildfires, 4-H entry questions, or just offering our conference room as a place for people to gather, Extension offers it all. I am grateful to have been a part of offering these services to Malheur County.<\/p>\n

Lastly, a piece of knowledge that I hope to use later is something I learned from the office manager at the Extension office in Malheur County: \u201cBreathe in, Breathe Out, Move on\u201d. It is easy for me to get hung up on things that didn\u2019t go my way, or that I might have accidentally messed up. If I breathe in, breathe out and move on, I can move past those things and continue to grow. Through this internship, I have grown leaps and bounds in both my professional and my personal skills. This has been a wonderful opportunity and I am incredibly thankful to have been given the opportunity to intern with OSU Extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone, I am in the last week of my internship at the Oregon State University Extension Office in Malheur County and I have had a great summer! If you\u2019ve read my first blog, you might remember that I was looking forward to working with 4-H youth in Malheur County. 4-H was my primary focus… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,110],"tags":[12,112],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-h","category-malheur-county","tag-4-h","tag-malheur-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}