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Find Your Spark
4-H empowers young people to dream about better tomorrows and gives them the tools to reach it.
Clubs
You'll never feel more at home than at your 4-H club. Wherever you live, there’s a 4-H program where you can explore new things, meet new friends, and change the world. Find your place in 4-H.
Programs
Discover ways you can save the world. Feed the hungry, Protect the environment, Speak up for others. Change the world as you change yourself.
Projects
4-H makes learning fun! You pick your adventure. There are caring adults ready to help you explore and grow. Nothing is too hard in 4-H.
Cloverbuds
4-H Cloverbud Clubs are for younger children aged 5 to 7. During club meetings, youth work as a group on projects perfect for their age!
Teen Leadership
4-H empowers young people to be true leaders. True leaders are young people who have confidence; know how to work well with others; can endure through challenges; and will stick to a job until it gets done.
Upcoming Events
Northwest Regional 4-H Horse Bowl/Hippology Contest
Black Hawk College East Campus
Apr 01
State 4-H Horse Speaking Contest
UIUC Campus
Apr 22
State 4-H Hippology Contest
UIUC Campus
Apr 22
State 4-H Horse Bowl Contest
UIUC Campus
Apr 23
Apr 25
Find Your Spark
4-H offers so many opportunities from which to choose. Find the path that makes sense for you … and then Start Your Journey
Empowering Youth for Success
As a 4-H volunteer, you can share your skills and experience to help transform a new generation of confident, young leaders. This is your chance to make a change, to be the spark that inspires a generation.
Build a Better World
Illinois 4-H prepares youth to solve Illinois' problems by producing the leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, stewards, and builders we need. 4-H builds good leaders by giving them safe environments to practice all the skills needed to be successful leaders. Illinois 4-H knows that our very lives are inseparable from the health of our planet and work daily to save the world for this and future generations.
College and Career Readiness
Environment
Food Advocacy
Health and Nutrition
STEM and Robotics
Leadership
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