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Nebraska 4-H

Kristen Herrick greets a 4-H pig. As a 4-H'er herself, she showed pigs, and started a business selling show pigs.

With deep 4-H ties, Herrick starts career with Nebraska Extension

August 7, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Megan Macklin, 16, practices her speech with her sisters and cousins.

4-H'ers hone public speaking, communication skills at statewide contest

June 24, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

oe Lake (red shirt) and Ryne Callahan watch as Rachel Rose, coordinator of engineering outreach, places heavy metal washers into a cup to see how much weight their straw-and-tape bridge can hold. The two, both high school juniors, participated in the engineering camp offered as one of Nebraska 4-H's Big Red Summer Academic Camps.

140 high schoolers get 'beyond ready' through Big Red Summer Camps

June 17, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Four members of the Sparks Sharks, a FIRST Lego League robotics team from Wilbur-Clatonia Public Schools, gather around a table in the Coliseum to watch their colorful Lego robot in action. A female judge and a few other people watch, as well.

FIRST Lego League championship is March 21-22 at Nebraska U

March 14, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Gov. Jim Pillen holds a proclamation designating February as Nebraska 4-H Month, flanked by Kathleen Lodl (far left) and 13 youth ambassadors from Cass, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties at the Nebraska State Capitol.

Nebraska 4-H Month recognizes program’s impact on youths

February 7, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Composite image showing youth participating in 4-H events.

Nebraska 4-H activities leave lasting impacts on students

May 10, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Students work in a lab.

Registration opens for high school Big Red Summer Camps

February 14, 2024

Robots made from Lego bricks sit on a FIRST LEGO League game board.

Lego League helps robotics, programming click for Nebraska youth

January 19, 2024

Josh Layman, showman, leads his lamb as a member of the Unified Showing 4-H Club, accompanied by buddy Tatum Terwilliger.

Walbrecht opens 4-H livestock opportunities to youths with disabilities

November 15, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

A wildflower grows amid the grass at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center southwest of Lincoln.

Husker team partnering with communities to enhance biodiversity education

November 1, 2023

Science & Technology

Youths lead cattle at the 4-H Logan County Fair in Stapleton, Nebraska.

Woiwode explains benefits of standardized cattle-handling training

March 27, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University, stands in front of a classroom of 4-H educators.

Grandin: Instructional flexibility can boost U.S. education and 4-H

March 24, 2023

Agriculture & Environment