4-H Outreach Programs

Expanding 4‑H opportunities across Adams County

Adams County 4-H Outreach & Enrichment Programs partners with schools, libraries, and recreation centers to offer engaging activities to youth county-wide using the 4-H experiential-learning model.

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Featured Programs

4-H School Partnership

We partner with schools to bring high-quality, hands-on STEAM and Health & Wellbeing activities to students of all ages. One of our most popular school programs is our 4-H Embryology Program in which we outfit schools with incubators and fertilized chicken eggs to hatch in their classrooms.

If you would like our programs in your school, please fill out the contact form on the Contact Us page!

A group of youth gather around a picnic table studying a large folded map, with one person pointing to a specific location during an outdoor activity.
A youth sits on a blanket outdoors weaving green yarn across a small wooden frame, with crafting materials placed nearby.

4-H National Western Stock Show Partnership

The NWSS School Visit Program is an opportunity for students to spend the day learning and engaging with different components of agriculture at the National Western Stock Show Event in January each year. Adams County 4-H facilitates agricultural education by providing pre-visits to participating schools.

4-H Community Programs

We partner with libraries and recreation centers in Adams County to offer our 4-H enrichment programming. Check out the libraries and recreation centers’ websites for upcoming offerings.

If your community program would like a 4-H enrichment facilitator to lead a hands-on program fill out the contact form on the Contact Us page.

Participants chop vegetables on colorful cutting boards at a table, preparing lettuce, peppers, cucumbers, and other fresh ingredients during a hands‑on food activity.
A group of youth sit and stand along the branches of a large tree in a wooded natural area on a sunny day.

4-H Summer Programs

Is your school or community center looking for programming over the summer? Adams County 4-H can collaborate with existing summer programs to offer an array of engaging activities to your campers! Our current summer camps include: 

  • EcoExplorers Nature-Based Day Camp for middle schoolers 
  • Colorado Trout Unlimited Youth Fly Fishing Camp for high schoolers

Proud partners of Adams County 4-H Youth Outreach & Enrichment

  • Anythink 
  • Northglenn Recreation Center
  • Trailwinds Recreation Center
  • Carpenter Recreation Center
  • Salvation Army 
  • Crown Pointe Academy
  • The STEM Lab
  • Alsup Elementary
  • Federal Heights
  • Adventure Elementary
  • The Stead School
  • Legacy High School
  • Westgate Community School
  • Meadow Community School
  • Meadow Ridge Elementary School
  • Montview Elementary School
  • Pennock Elementary School
  • Arapahoe Ridge Elementary School
  • Cotton Creek Elementary School
  • Valley View Elementary School
  • Orchard Park Elementary School
  • Dupont Elementary School
  • Mesa Elementary School 
  • Bellview Christina Academy 
  • Silver Creek Elementary
  • Mapleton Online
  • Belle Creek Charter School