January 5
CT 4-H Recognition Forms due to the State 4-H Office

January 7

Interviews for Selection to National 4-H Conference

January 31

State 4-H Equine Communications Contests, UConn

Great Hartford Area Campus

February 2

Registration due for participation in Connecticut 4-H Expressive

Arts Day - This includes Fashion Revue, CT 4-H Photography & Art

Contest, Textile Arts Contest, Talent Show

Entries due to the Connecticut State 4-H Office for the 2009 National 4-H

Beekeeping Essay Contest

February 21

State 4-H Sheep Project Clinic, UConn Storrs Campus

March 1

Entries due to the New Haven County Extension Center for the

Connecticut 4-H Textiles Arts Contest

March 7

State 4-H Equine Quiz Bowl,  UConn Greater Hartford Area Campus

March 14

Connecticut 4-H Expressive Arts Day, UConn Greater Hartford Area

Campus

March 21

State 4-H Dairy Clinic, UConn Storrs Campus

March 28

Southern New England 4-H Poultry Contest

UConn Storrs Campus

March 28 - April 2

National 4-H Conference, National 4-H Youth Conference Center,

Chevy Chase, MD

April 1

4-H Horse verification forms due to county office for ESE 4-H Horse Show consideration

April 4

Connecticut 4-H Goat Day - UConn Storrs Campus

April 15
State 4-H Citizenship Day, Hartford

April 19

State 4-H Horse Clinic (riding),  Tolland Agricultural Center

April 24 & 25

New London County 4-H Auction, Franklin, CT

April 25

State 4-H Hippology Contest, UConn Storrs Campus

April 26

State 4-H Horse Judging Contest, UConn Storrs Campus

May 1

Animal verification forms due to county 4-H office for dairy cattle projects

Due date for New England Dairy Program applications (The Big E)

4-H Enrollment forms due to county 4-H office in order to show at

current year's 4-H fairs

4-H Horse Show Series Forms due to Middlesex County 4-H Office by

5:00 p.m.

May 2

New England 4-H Dog Clinic

May 9

Middlesex County 4-H Auction, Middlesex County Extension

Center, Haddam

June 1

CT 4-H Recognition forms due to the State 4-H Office

Animal verification forms due to county 4-H office for animal projects with the exception of dairy cattle

4-H Camps begin in June.  Go to www.4-H.uconn.edu for more

information

June 19-21

CT 4-H Camp Staff Training Conference, Marlborough

July 5-11

Citizenship Washington Focus, Chevy Chase, MD

July 24-26

New London County 4-H Exposition, North Stonington Fairgrounds

July 31 - August 2

Windham County 4-H Fair, Brooklyn Fairgrounds

August 7-9

Middlesex & New Haven County 4-H Fair, Durham Fairgrounds

Tolland County 4-H Fair, Tolland Agricultural Center

August 8 & 9

Litchfield County 4-H Fair, Goshen Fairgrounds

August 14-16

Hartford County 4-H Fair, Fourtown Fairgrounds, Somers

September 18

The Big E Begins

September 19

4-H Day at the Big E

September 27-30

National 4-H Dairy Conference, Madison, Wisconsin

October 3

Fall Festival at the Farm, 4-H Education Center at Auer Farm,

Bloomfield, CT

October 4

The Big E ends

October 4-10

National 4-H Week

November 6-8

Eastern National 4-H Horse Roundup

November 27 - December 1

National 4-H Congress, Atlanta, GA

December