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4-H Civic Education Project

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Citizenship is the opportunity, right and responsibility to contribute to shaping the world around you and provide service to others.

Explore your relationships with others: family, peers, state, nation and world.
Get involved! Be an active, responsible citizen.
Take action to help others.
Show social responsibility and respect, and respond to the needs, rights and responsibilities of others.

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Volunteer to be a tutor or mentor in your school.
Investigate the departments in your county government and find out what they do.
Interview someone from your local Chamber of Commerce or economic development agency to learn about the goals for your community.
Identify a cause important to you and determine how to make a difference.
Map out area resources available to youth and families.

Participate in county or regional Legislative Day activities.
Apply to be a page in the state Legislature.
Apply to attend the National 4-H Conference or National 4-H Congress.
Attend Citizenship Washington Focus.
Contact your county Extension office to participate in your county’s 4-H Council.
Volunteer for a local, county or state political campaign for a candidate you support.
Create a team to raise funds and participate in a benefit for a national cause you support.
Attend the Extension Youth Conference and participate in workshops, motivational speakers and a community service project, bringing ideas back to your community.
Interested in a college education in the area of political science, sociology, public service administration, community development or public health? Schedule a visit with North Dakota State University.

Create a poster about the best things in your community.
Create a video about your community and what visitors should know about it.
Create a “Welcome to our School” kit for new families.
Map the resources for youth and families in your community.
Create a notebook explaining the Bill of Rights and examples in your everyday life.
Give a presentation about the checks and balances of the three branches of government and how they’re important to you.
Report your exploration of an issue and define how each branch of government plays a role in its creation, interpretation and implementation.
Video your group at a service project and interview members about what they did and what it meant to them.
Research governor candidates for the next election and put a notebook together sharing their stance on different issues.
Create a notebook about the things you learned at Citizenship in Action, National 4-H Conference, National 4-H Congress or Citizenship Washington Focus and how them impacted you.
Create a display on the process of how a bill becomes a law.
Create a visual representation about the different branches of government and how they work together.

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