Rutgers Day is a festival held annually on the last Saturday in April at Rutgers University. First branded as “Rutgers Day” in 2009, the festival brings tens of thousands of festival-goers to campus; it is open to the public and offers more than 500 free programs featuring demonstrations, child-friendly interactive activities involving animals and plants, […]
In partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Mercer County 4-H hosted a special Science Saturday event on Saturday, April 1st, to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day. The event invited over 30 students to participate, many of whom were students with special needs. The day consisted of youth optimizing paper airplanes for longer and higher flight, […]
Mercer County 4-H has partnered with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) for the last ten years to provide Science Saturday programming to Trenton area youth in 4th-7th grades. Each year, the participants receive six sessions of programming, once a month, from October to March, where they learn about science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the scientific method, and […]
Mercer County 4-H provides after-school enrichment programming to several schools in the Trenton school district. On March 8th, International Women’s Day, Mercer County 4-H worked with a group of fourth graders at Grant Elementary School to commemorate the day. The young participants discussed what it means to celebrate Women’s Day, why it is important, and […]
During the fall of 2022, Mercer County 4-H partnered with Children’s Home Society to bring a technology series to their youth using MakeyMakey. This partnership was successful and extremely fun for the young people who took part in it. Once again, Mercer County 4-H is partnering with Children’s Home Society to continue to bring STEM […]
