State Publicity Ideas:

• Send out statewide press releases (for promotion, events, and fundraising items) as needed to the media, other state 4-H Offices, National 4-H Council, USDA, etc.
• Send out statewide press packets (containing fact sheets, logo sheets, columns, articles, diskettes, etc.) as needed to the county 4-H offices.
• National TV Interview.
• State TV Interviews.
• Create radio promotion spots
  • Send to local radio stations
• Create TV promotion spots
  • Send to local TV stations
• Create a video to illustrate the past, present, and future of 4-H
  • Loan to counties
  • Send to Public Access Channels
  • Send to Public Education Channels for school viewing
• Create commemorative billboards.
• Create or link to Centennial Website.
• Create a commemorative display
  • Loan to counties
  • Display at state events

State Promotion Ideas:

• Create a 4-H 100^th Anniversary Slogan (maybe hold contest).
• Create a 4-H 100^th Anniversary Logo.
• Place 4-H 100^th Anniversary Logo on all IN 4-H printed materials in 2002 (newsletters, recognition certificates, banners, etc.).
• Work with various state agencies to have a 4-H Centennial logo placed on programs, souvenir glasses, etc.
• Create 4-H history programs to be used as camp activities.
• Collect and Display past 4-H photographs.
• Create a large “4-H Indiana Quilt” with each county contributing a square.
• Contribute a quilt block to the national 4-H quilt being made by a 4-H’er in Missouri.
• Have cartoonist Jim Davis do a “Garfield” comic strip that mentions 4-H.
• Have a plane carry a 4-H banner at air shows and other outdoor events.
• Create a state 4-H time capsule.

State Awareness Event Ideas:

• Have all school students in Indiana do something to honor 4-H on the same day.
• Host a fireworks display at the state fair.
• Plant a 4-H tree (Tulip) on the state fairgrounds/state house along with a marker to commemorate the 100^th Anniversary of 4-H.
• Hold a 4-H Alumni Day at the State Fair.  (This could also be used as a way to keep better track of alumni.)
• Birthday party kick-off first at state (state house) and then spread out to county for county birthday parties.  Include oldest living 4-H alumni.
• Have a celebrity day in which “famous” 4-H alumni hold a meeting/brown box session to talk with current 4-H members.
• Get people who have been in 4-H promote 4-H at concerts at IN State Fair entertainment shows.
• Hold “WANTED 4-H Alumni” contest.  Give rewards for categories such as:
  • oldest living alumni
  • highest number of recognized alumni in county
  • oldest 4-H books, pins, ribbons, etc. found
• Have a reunion at Indiana State Fair
  • Have alumni party and recognition
  • Include displays and have youth-centered games and activities
  • TV coverage
  • 4-H goodies and memorabilia