{"id":1714,"date":"2025-07-24T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:28:03","slug":"osu-extension-intern-shares-highlights-from-a-busy-4-h-pre-fair-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2025\/07\/24\/osu-extension-intern-shares-highlights-from-a-busy-4-h-pre-fair-week\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Extension intern shares highlights from a busy 4-H pre-fair week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Riley Hampton and I\u2019m an Umatilla County 4-H Intern this<br \/>\nyear. I\u2019m an incoming Junior at Southern Oregon University in the emerging media and<br \/>\ndesign program. This is my second year working with OSU Extension through the<br \/>\nsummer internship program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1713\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"width: 683px;\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1713\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3908\/files\/2025\/07\/Rylee-Martin-presenting-her-cupcakes-during-Cupcake-Wars-during-PreFair-Photo-taken-by-me.--683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rylee Martin presenting her cupcakes during Cupcake Wars at Umatilla County&#8217;s PreFair. Photo: Riley Hampton<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>Umatilla County is already gearing up in the 4-H world, with last Thursday<br \/>\nmarking the end of Umatilla County Pre-Fair!<\/p>\n<p>Last week we held live food contests, where contestants prepared everything<br \/>\nfrom a steak dinner to a dozen cupcakes! Thank you contestants, for my spaghetti and<br \/>\nchimichurri breakfasts.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the week our Fashion Revue and Presentation contestants showed<br \/>\nup in numbers. We had a combined 40 more contestants than last year, which made for<br \/>\na busy week!<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, I got the opportunity to work with 4-H Youth Leaders while<br \/>\nmeeting with the future members of 4-H during Cloverbud Camp. Ambassadors and<br \/>\nvolunteers led different stations, teaching the kids about different parts of 4-H in a fun<br \/>\nand engaging way. I\u2019d like to thank my youth leaders as well as the kids who came to<br \/>\nmake the day the success that it was.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for me (for now). Hope to see you at the 2025 Umatilla County<br \/>\nFair, August 6-9th in Hermiston, Oregon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Riley Hampton and I\u2019m an Umatilla County 4-H Intern this year. I\u2019m an incoming Junior at Southern Oregon University in the emerging media and design program. This is my second year working with OSU Extension through the summer internship program. Umatilla County is already gearing up in the 4-H world, with&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2025\/07\/24\/osu-extension-intern-shares-highlights-from-a-busy-4-h-pre-fair-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-h","category-umatilla-county","tag-riley-hampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","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\/14884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}