Junior Leadership Retreat is the premiere youth teaching youth statewide leadership retreat for junior and intermediate level 4-H members! Members of the Texas 4-H Council coordinate and conduct all of the educational workshops and recreational activities. It is a great weekend of learning and exploring, don’t miss out!
When? November 8-10, 2013 at the Texas 4-H Conference Center in Brownwood
Deadline to Register is November 3
Cost? $115 for youth and $80 for Adult Chaperones. This includes two nights lodging in the dorms (bring your own linens), four meals, two evening snacks and all the program supplies.
What to expect? Arrive Friday night between 6:00 and 8:00 pm; we’ll start with recreation and getting to know one another through ice breakers and other activities. Saturday there will be five concurrent educational workshops for participants: vet science, leadership, bullying and inclusion, the new “trashion show” and archery! Should be LOTS OF FUN! Other workshops on team building and leadership round out the day’s program. Saturday night — the Dance theme is “The Final Screening”! You’ll see Council members from the “trashion show” dressed like Wally, Archery instructors may look like Princess Merida, who knows — Nemo and Dory may show up! Choose your favorite movie character and ‘wear the part’. There will be a costume parade and prizes!!! Sunday it’s rise and shine and then we’ll wrap up all the activities. You’ll be on your way home by 11:00 am
Along with bringing your linens for the dormitories, Texas 4-H Council invites you to bring a rock! There will be time to decorate the rocks on Saturday, before the Texas Star Ceremony on Saturday night. During the ceremony, you get to ‘leave your mark on the 4-H Center’.
