{"id":273,"date":"2021-07-08T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:03:21","slug":"getting-to-work-behind-the-scenes-in-lake-county-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2021\/07\/08\/getting-to-work-behind-the-scenes-in-lake-county-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to work behind the scenes in Lake County Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hello!\u202f My name is Alyson Yates, and I grew up in the high desert and sagebrush of Lakeview, Oregon. \u202fI began my involvement in the\u00a0OSU Extension\u00a04-H program as a\u00a0fourth-grader\u00a0and\u00a0continued to show livestock and participate in the arts throughout my time in high school. \u202fI also traveled\u00a0to National 4-H Congress in Atlanta\u00a0as a part of the 2018 Oregon\u00a0delegation, and during my final year, I served as an Oregon 4-H\u00a0state\u00a0ambassador.\u202f While I still raise livestock, I also love to travel (domestically and internationally), spend time outdoors, paint\u00a0and take photos.\u202f\u00a0<\/span>During the academic year, I work as a\u00a0student\u00a0marketing\u00a0photographer at\u00a0Eastern Oregon University in La Grande.\u00a0<\/span>I recently completed my first year at\u00a0EOU, where I am studying\u00a0agricultural\u00a0science and pursuing minors in\u00a0animal\u00a0science and\u00a0comparative\u00a0international\u00a0agriculture. \u202f<\/span><\/p>\n

During my junior year, I hope to study abroad at either Lincoln University in New Zealand or the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to focus on global sustainable agriculture and outreach.\u202fAfter earning my bachelor\u2019s degree, I plan to earn a master\u2019s degree in\u00a0agricultural\u00a0education before finding a career within university Extension 4-H program development.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n

This summer, I will be an intern at the Lake County Extension\u00a0office, working alongside\u00a0Breann Vandenberg<\/span>, the county\u2019s\u00a04-H\u00a0youth\u00a0development &\u00a0family\u00a0community\u00a0health\u00a0outreach\u00a0program\u00a0coordinator<\/span>.\u202f Throughout the upcoming weeks, I hope to interact with the youth of Lake County through both livestock and non-livestock projects, inform members and their parents about the many impactful leadership opportunities available through 4-H, and gain experience with 4-H program development behind the scenes.\u202f I\u00a0would also love to incorporate one of my other passions, photography, into this position, and help to cultivate the growth of fine arts programs in Lake County\u2019s 4-H.
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\"\"I believe that youth are essential to the future of agriculture in our country,\u00a0 and that providing education, support, and opportunity for rural youth to thrive is possibly the most important thing that our generation can do to cultivate a future of agricultural sustainability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00a0want to be able to provide these things to the youth in my\u00a0community and\u00a0encourage them to grow and better themselves through many different outlets, just as I was fortunate enough to do. \u202fSince I hope to ultimately find a career within Extension, this is an extremely valuable experience for me, and I am so excited to get started.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello!\u202f My name is Alyson Yates, and I grew up in the high desert and sagebrush of Lakeview, Oregon. \u202fI began my involvement in the\u00a0OSU Extension\u00a04-H program as a\u00a0fourth-grader\u00a0and\u00a0continued to show livestock and participate in the arts throughout my time in high school. \u202fI also traveled\u00a0to National 4-H Congress in Atlanta\u00a0as a part of the… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,79,69],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-h","category-ag-and-natural-resources","category-lake-county","category-southern-oregon","tag-alyson-yates","tag-lake-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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\/11435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}