Seth Nagy: Hi, I'm Seth Nagy and welcome to the Caldwell County Extension Update. Today
I've got I'll say a guest but he's also our 4-H agent, new 4-H agent. Charlie Godfrey
is with me. How are you doing Charlie? Charlie Godfrey: Doing very well. Very excited
to be here. Seth Nagy: Well good, good. Now you've been
on the job for a month. Charlie Godfrey: Yes, started about a month
ago. Seth Nagy: Okay. And tell me, how, what got
you excited about or interested in being a 4-H agent?
Charlie Godfrey: I was really excited and interested in 4-H because I grew up as a 4-H'er
when I was a kid in North Carolina, enjoyed a lot of great opportunities and just felt
that it was a great opportunity to give back and to serve the youth of Caldwell County.
Seth Nagy: Well fantastic. You have been a little bit busy already. You've actually been
working with some of the schools. You've been meeting some of the 4-H clubs and the 4-H'ers.
But tell me just a little bit about the school system. What are we doing with the schools?
Charlie Godfrey: Yeah, it's been really exciting. I've been able to start our embryology project
with the school system where we take an incubator and some eggs and we start those in the classroom,
and they wait about, they're incubated for three weeks and then we'll have some chicks
hatch in the classrooms. Seth Nagy: And that dovetails with what the
second graders and third graders are learning? Is that correct?
Charlie Godfrey: Yes. They have some life cycle curriculum in their curriculum where
they learn about life cycle of animals and humans. That fits right in with their curriculum
in their school. Seth Nagy: Well, fantastic. Well Charlie,
I know we've got some special guests that want to ask you questions. We can bring them
on. I'll tell you what, I'll go ahead and we'll invite those folks on, some of our current
4-H'ers. They'll ask you questions and then I'll come back and we'll see how you did with
the answers. How does that sound? Charlie Godfrey: All right, let's see how
it goes. Seth Nagy: All right.
Evi: How does it feel to be the new 4-H agent? Charlie Godfrey: It feels really great to
be the new 4-H agent. I'm very excited for all the programs we're going to get to do
and other opportunities here in the county. By the way, what was your name?
Evi: Evi. Charlie Godfrey: Evi. And what do you like
best about 4-H? Evi: My favorite thing about 4-H is that you
get to ride horses and learn a lot about them. Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's really exciting.
I'm also excited to learn more about horses myself. Well thank you for coming and asking
your question today. Addison: Hello my name is Addison and I want
to ask you a couple questions. Charlie Godfrey: All right, go ahead.
Addison: How long have you been in 4-H? Charlie Godfrey: I started as a 4-H'er when
I was five years old. All right, I got one question for you. What is your favorite part
about 4-H? Addison: Probably everything. I just like
4-H. Charlie Godfrey: Well, and what do you do
in 4-H? Addison: I do Happy Valley 4-H and science.
My dad leads science 4-H. Charlie Godfrey: Wow. At Happy Valley what
do you guys do? Addison: We just like go outside … It's
all types of things. Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's really exciting.
I actually went with the Happy Valley club a few weeks ago. We went and toured the Sturgeon
farm which is really exciting to see all those fish and everything. But thank you very much
for coming to ask for your question today. Addison: Thank you.
Jackson: What do you do as a 4-H agent? Charlie Godfrey: As a 4-H agent there's a
lot of different responsibilities. I help look after the 4-H clubs, I help connect us
with state and district events, and I also help with the school enrichment where we help
in the classrooms with our embryology project and other programs, as well as putting up
a bunch of summer activities which I just started working on now. We'll have a lot of
fun summer camps and other activities coming this summer that we're working on planning.
What was your name? Jackson: Jackson.
Charlie Godfrey: Jackson. What is your favorite part about 4-H?
Jackson: Probably that most of my friends do 4-H.
Charlie Godfrey: Wow, and do you enjoy spending time with your friends and doing all the activities?
Jackson: A lot. Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's really cool.
Thank you so much for coming to ask for your question today.
Jackson: You're welcome. Charlie Godfrey: Thank you.
Benjamin J.: Hello my name is Benjamin Joblin and I wondered what are you planning for 4-H
summer camps? Charlie Godfrey: I have a lot of things planned
for 4-H summer camps. We're going to have a day camp here in Caldwell County at a camp
called Anita Alta where a few kids are going to go away to camp, 4-H camp for the week.
Then we have many other activities with a science day, possibly a water and stream activity
called 4-H2O and possibly the week called Discovery Days were we'll visit some other
counties and other 4-H programs as well. There'll be many other activities to come as well.
I'm very excited for everybody that can participate in our summer programs. What do you like best
about 4-H? Benjamin J.: I love being in the clubs.
Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's good. Which club are you in?
Benjamin J.: I'm in the saddle club and the cooking club.
Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's really good. And how long have you been in 4-H?
Benjamin J.: Probably four years. Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's a long time.
It's great. Thank you for coming to ask your question today.
Benjamin J.: Thank you. Carter B.: My name is Carter Bean. I am with
the shooting sports team. Charlie Godfrey: That's really exciting. I
heard you guys were actually going to national competition this year.
Carter B.: Yes sir, I'm going with the archery team to Nebraska to shoot in the Nationals.
Charlie Godfrey: Wow, that's really great. Do you have a question for me today?
Carter B.: Yes sir. What are your future plans and improvements for the 4-H?
Charlie Godfrey: I have a lot of future plans. From my experience and growing up in 4-H I
was involved with a lot of different projects, but I really don't want to come with a set
idea. I really want to get to know you guys, get to know the county, and then find out
what fits best for Caldwell County, because each county is different. We want to do some
research and find out what fits best for you guys. That's why I've been trying to have
meetings with the 4-H'ers, the club leaders, and to visit all the clubs, just find out
what is going on and what we can make improvements all together so we can have a great 4-H program.
Because the 4-H program isn't only a little bit about me, it's mostly about the 4-H'ers
and the clubs and all the other things that are going on. I'm excited to work with you
guys to plan a brighter future for the 4-H program. What is your favorite part about
4-H? Carter B.: All the opportunity it offers.
Charlie Godfrey: Wow, thank you. Yeah, it's great to have … There's so many opportunities
that it offers through different programs, but I'm excited for you guys and the archery
club and all the things you guys have going on. So thank you for coming to ask your question
today. Carter B.: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 8: Hi, I'm [inaudible 00:06:27]. I am the president of Saddle club and I also
go to cooking club. Charlie Godfrey: Thank you for coming today.
Speaker 8: My question today for you is what is your experience in 4-H?
Charlie Godfrey: My experience in 4-H, I spent about 13 years as a 4-H'er when I was growing
up. I started out racing lambs to show at the county and state fair. Then I progressed
to showing, also showing cows and turkeys at the state fair, but I also participated
in the electricity project, a model engine project, and as well as model rockets and
many other projects. We went on camping trips. We went on trips to Raleigh. We went on many
other trips at 4-H. I'm very excited from my experience to share those experiences with
the 4-H'ers here in Caldwell County. So what is your favorite part about 4-H?
Speaker 8: Well my favorite part is about meeting new kids and just showing them how
great 4-H is. Charlie Godfrey: That's good. We always need
people like that so we can increase our numbers to have more people to come participate. Well,
thank you for coming today. Speaker 8: You're welcome.
Seth Nagy: Charlie, you had some tough questions there. It looks like you fared well.
Charlie Godfrey: Yep, it was good. I had some very thoughtful questions.
Seth Nagy: Well good, well that is, it is really a good experience for our 4-H'ers
to be able to ask questions and be in this kind of format. I know that's part of what
4-H is about, is learn by doing and through experiences and those kind of things.
Charlie Godfrey: Yeah, it's really great. It was really great to get the kids this opportunity
and just for the county to see what quality youth we have in our programs.
Seth Nagy: It is. If you wonder about the next generation, there's certainly a lot of
high quality youth out there. Charlie Godfrey: Oh exactly. If there's anybody
else who's interested, just like today, that we have a lot of different age groups and
different opportunities, anybody that wants to can come and contact our office and they
can come and be a part of our 4-H programs. Seth Nagy: Have we said what age 4-H is?
Charlie Godfrey: 4-H is basically 5 to 19 and there are different age groups broken
up into that, different opportunities for the age groups, but they can start at the
age of 5 and stay in 4-H all the way to the age of 19.
Seth Nagy: Okay. You said to get in touch with our office, and our office, Cooperative
Extension Office is … Charlie Godfrey: The Caldwell County Cooperative
Extension is just next to the library, in the same building, just around the backside
of the library. Seth Nagy: Excellent, fantastic. Did we talk
about kind of the three main ways we deliver youth programs?
Charlie Godfrey: Oh we did talk about it a little bit from the questions we had, but
our three main areas are 4-H clubs that meet monthly or bimonthly, that are typically led
by volunteer leaders. I work with facilitating that and providing them resources and opportunities.
Some are focused on a specific area like horses, and then other ones like the Happy Valley
Club do a lot of different activities, learning a lot of different things. Then we have our
school enrichment which we mentioned earlier with the embryology project and other things
in the school, so we can offer an enhanced opportunity to these classes where maybe it's
an opportunity the kids wouldn't have because of the resources, but we can take those resources
like an incubator and eggs into their classroom and provide enhanced opportunities. As well
we have the summer programs which were asked about and the kids asked their questions.
We have a lot of different day camps and week-long camps and one day events and many things that
will be going on this summer that are part of our summer programs.
Seth Nagy: Well, I'm really excited about what's happening. Certainly this was great
today. Anything else we ought to cover before we wrap this up Charlie?
Charlie Godfrey: I think that's about it. I'm just very excited to be here in Caldwell
County and have this opportunity to serve the county in this way.
Seth Nagy: Well I certainly do appreciate it, and certainly I appreciate everybody watching.
If you have a youth or a child that's interested, please, please contact the Cooperative Extension
Center, 828-757-1290. Be more than happy to get you involved in 4-H. So thank you very
much for watching this extension update. Charlie Godfrey: Thank you very much.
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