General Organization and Appearance (10 Points)
- Book bound, tidy, with front cover complete (2 points)
- Book contains labeled dividers (3 points)
- Book in the correct order, all must be the same (2 points)
- Overall neatness (3 points0
Planning Calendar (10 Points)
Entries required through September
- Simple entries with dates and club activities listed (5 points)
- Check marks showing activities attended (1 point)
- Neatness (4 points)
- All County 4-H events listed (bonus 1 point)
- Project related events (field trips, etc.) (bonus 2 points)
Project Section (40 Points)
Individual projects are to include appropriate add sheets and project
- Project Commitment (8 points total broken up as follows)
- Set goals, sign (2 points) and date (2 points)
- Leader, parent agreement (may be completed by member or parent/leader, signed and dated) (4 points)
- Project Journal and/or Add Sheets (15 points)
- Complete and accurate showing of how many/how much (dollar/time)
- Project Highlights (6 points) (12 points total)
- Project photos and/or project related materials (4 points)
- Must have at least 2 captions (2 points) dates are not necessary
- Neatness (5 points)
Permanent Record (15 Points)
Much have name, date, date started, header completely filled out
- Offices and committee summary (1 bonus point)
- Project and exhibit summary (2 points)
- Judging, all fair judging events must be listed after the fair (1 bonus point)
- Public presentations (must complete to finish 4-H year!) (3 points)
- 4-H contests, all fair contests must be listed after the fair (1 bonus point)
- Events attended (1 bonus point)
- Community service (must complete to finish 4-H year!) (2 points)
- 4-H promotion (1 bonus point)
- Leadership (1 bonus point)
- School and community responsibilities, any activity (2 points)
- Non-4-H contests entered (1 bonus point)
- 4-H meetings attended (1 point)
- Most important recognition (1 point)
- Neatness (4 points)
4-H Story (25 Points)
Limited to three sides (must be in order)
- Introduction – name, club, and number of years in 4-H (1 point)
- Narrative – describe your 4-H year including project involvement, growth, and participation (10 points)
- Club and community and/or school involvement i.e. offices held, community participation or favorite activity (2 points)
- 4-H impact – how 4-H has influence your life (4 points)
- Supplemental information – limited to three sides (newspaper clippings, pictures with captions and pictures of club, community, school, family, etc.)o ( 4 points)
- Outstanding narrative ( 5 bonus points)
- Neatness (4 points)
Scoring Totals
Breakdown
- Highest score possible – 115 points
- 15 – highest possible amount of bonus points
- 100 – highest possible score without bonus points
Ribbons
- High Blue 97-115 points
- Blue 90-96 points
- Red 70-89 points
- White 45-69 points