Our Clubs

Centre County Clubs

Centre County 4-H clubs offer opportunities for youth ages 5-18. Choose from community clubs, which offer various projects, or specific project clubs, which focus on one main project area.

Project Areas

• Animal Science
• Civic Engagement and Leadership
• Communications and Expressive Arts
• Environmental Science and Shooting Sports
• Healthy Living and Wellness
• STEM

Clubs

Shooting Sports Clubs

These clubs focus on shooting sports, such as air rifle, BB, and archery. 4-H leaders maintain their instructor certification through the 4-H Shooting Sports training. Members learn about firearm safety and have the opportunity to develop and hone their skills with target practice. Regional, state, and national events offer opportunities for members to demonstrate their skills. Both clubs meet at the Outdoor Sportsman Club in Bellefonte, PA.

• Centre County 4-H Arrow Slingers Club (Archery)
• Tussey Mountain 4-H Rifle Club (BB, Air Rifle)

Horse Clubs

These clubs provide the opportunity for members to learn about horses in a variety of ways. Members do not need to own a horse to participate! Members can choose from horseless and model horse projects, performance projects (focused on riding), production projects (focused on the training of young horses), endurance and trail-riding, and gaming. In some cases, the club may offer the 4-H Cloverbud Horse project, which introduces youth ages 5-7 to horses in a safe, caring manner. Members can also participate in competitive events, like horse judging and horse bowl, which offer national opportunities if they qualify at the state level. A county horse show takes place each year, in which members can qualify to progress to the district and state horse show. There really is something to appeal to horse lovers of all kinds!

• 4-H Flying Hooves Club — Performance (English, western, gaming, trail), Production, Horseless, Model Horse, Cloverbud

Livestock Clubs

Livestock clubs provide the opportunity to learn about and raise beef, dairy cattle, dairy beef, sheep, goats, and pigs. Members do not need to own animals to participate! Opportunities exist for members to exhibit their animals at the Grange Fair and sell their market animals at the annual Centre County Jr. Livestock Sale.

• Centre County 4-H Beef Club (Breeding Beef & Market Beef)
• Centre County 4-H Moo's and More (General livestock)
• Centre County 4-H Goatee Club (Dairy Goats & Market Goats)
• 4-H Sheep Club (Breeding Sheep & Market Sheep)
• Goats Galore 4-H Club (Dairy Goats & Market Goats)
• Mt. Nittany 4-H Ag (General livestock)
• Penns Valley 4-H Beef Club (Breeding Beef & Market Beef)
• Penns Valley 4-H Club (General livestock)

Small Animal Clubs

These small animal clubs provide the opportunity to learn about and raise rabbits and poultry. Members do not need to own animals to participate! Opportunities exist for members to exhibit their animals at the Grange Fair and sell their market animals at the annual Centre County Jr. Livestock Sale.

• Happy Valley Hoppers 4-H Club (Rabbits)
• Cluckers & Quackers 4-H Club (Poultry)

Community Clubs

Community clubs offer many different projects each year, including cooking, arts & crafts, photography, sewing, and tye-dye, just to name a few. Projects change each year depending on member interest. Many of these clubs also offer the rabbit project as well and members do not need to own animals to participate. Opportunities exist for members to exhibit their projects and animals at the Grange Fair, and market animal projects can be sold at the annual Centre County Jr. Livestock Sale.

• Eagle Valley 4-H Club (Some livestock, community projects)
• Gold Bullets 4-H Club (Rabbits, community projects)
• Centre Ag and Community Club (Community projects)
• Walker Township 4-H Club (Rabbits, community projects)
• Centre County 4-H Critters & Crafts (Some livestock, community projects)
• 4-H Teen Council (Leadership)

Judging Teams

These teams reorganize each year and consist of 4-H club members that want to test their animal knowledge at competitive events. Teams practice several times leading up to the event, at the discretion of the 4-H volunteers and families that are involved. Teams have the opportunity to progress on to the National level if they qualify at the state level.

• Livestock Judging

Robotics Clubs

Centre County 4-H offers a robust robotics and STEM program. The clubs are organized as teams and offer programming to various age levels (see below). The middle school and high school teams work with the FIRST Robotics program, which is a national organization that promotes the development of life skills and involves designing and building robots. The teams have the opportunity to compete in FIRST Robotics events, starting at the regional level and progressing up to the global level. The elementary team introduces youth to robotics and STEM programming with the Lego robotics project. At this level, youth focus on team-building and developing foundational skills they will need before progressing to the other teams. These clubs are very active and the program is rigorous, but extremely rewarding!

• Centre County 4-H Robotics (Ages 8–18)

Start a new club

4-H is all about exploration! If you do not see a project or a club that looks like the right fit, you can start a new club.

4-H Clubs require:

• At least 5 youth (from at least two families)
• An adult club leader as point of contact with the 4-H Educator
• A minimum of 2 screened adult volunteers
• Hold regular educational meetings

Contact your county 4-H educator to discuss the process of developing a new club.