4-H Innovation Projects combine engineering and math skills to teach youth to build, design, problem solve, and construct while learning to measure, formulate, quantify, and compute.
4-H Innovation Projects encourage youth to explore, research and use tools to uncover something new. Investigating different perspectives while looking at different ways to solve problems encourages youth to use a higher level of thinking.
Computer Science Projects
4-H and Google have teamed up for a first-of-its-kind computer science (CS) collaboration to teach kids both technical skills like coding, and essential skills students will need in the future like teamwork and resilience. But the program isn’t just about programming computers, it’s about helping students learn skills they’ll need to approach problems in a fundamentally different way across every discipline from business to engineering to the arts.
Participants learn about:
- Decomposition – breaking big problems into smaller, more manageable problems.
- Pattern recognition – understanding how to look for and analyze repeating sequences.
- Abstraction – simplifying complex problems by ignoring irrelevant information.
- Algorithm design – creating step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish a task.
Participant outcomes:
- Systems thinking
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Context awareness
- Cultural and global awareness
Youth interested in the computer science can explore careers like:
- Application designer or developer
- Information technology specialist
- Computer science researcher
- Software engineer
- Video game designer
- Web designer
4-H Computer Science Projects:
- Discover Computer Science & Programming through Scratch
- Fundamentals
- Explorations
- Recursion
Engineering Projects
Youth will learn a variety of different problem-solving skills that they will need to work together on, each using their individual knowledge to think critically and creatively while communicating with one another. Engineering can help prepare youth for exciting careers and provide them with life-long skills.
Participants learn about:
- The Engineering Design Process
- Problem-Solving
- Teamwork
- Critical Thinking
Participant outcomes:
- Analysis
- Interpret data.
- Identify problems
- Communication
Youth interested in engineering can explore careers like:
- Agricultural engineer
- Chemical engineer
- Electrical engineer
- Manufacturing engineer
4-H Engineering Projects:
- Seaperch
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Pennsylvania State 4-H Office
- Email pa4h@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3824
Pennsylvania State 4-H Office
- Email pa4h@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3824
