Mercer County 4-H continues its after-school enrichment partnership with the Children’s Home Society. Each season, 4-H provides different STEM enrichment to the center’s youth. This spring, we offered a digital media series where the participating youth used technology to bring their creativity to life. During the 10-session series, the participants learned how to make GIFs, […]
Fifteen families with children aged 3-7 participated in a four-class cooking series at Children’s Home Society Family Success Center in Trenton this Spring! FCHS Educators Angela Alexander de Ramos and Odalis Macario taught the lessons in Spanish. Children were given their very own aprons and learned how to safely prepare snacks and meals with the […]
This fall, 4-H partnered with Children’s Home Society to bring youth a series centered around MakeyMakey—an Arduino-based board that acts as a keyboard and mouse using resistive sensing to turn everyday objects into keyboard inputs. The seven-session series taught the participants about circuits, conductive and insulating materials, and block coding. The series was very hands-on. […]
Mercer County 4-H partnered with Children’s Home Society North and South to present a Sewing and Crafting camp this summer. The participants in grades 4th– 8th made sewing machine projects, including rice bags (to heat in the microwave), composition book covers (journaling), flannel lounge pants or shorts, and fleece winter hats. They also upholstered wooden […]
