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Below are a list of conferences, competitions and events that are available throughout the year for youth in the 4-H Program. Click the toggle button to learn more about each of the following events. If you have any questions call the Laramie County 4-H Office at (307) 633-4383, we are happy to help!
As youth leaders in our community, youth achieve a broad understanding of the meaning and the qualities it takes to become a good leader. Youth learn to identify problems and develop action plans to solve them; acquire teamwork and group building skills. Youth also participate in project work that creates real-life experiences that help members take responsibility for their own actions. Members develop good work habits, learn to work with others, share ideas, and help each other. Youth must be an active member in their 4-H Club and participate in community service opportunities. Laramie County 4-H is rewarding these youth for their hard work and dedication to the 4-H program.
Youth must fill out the application for lettering in Laramie County 4-H. Please fill out the Application Below:
DEADLINE October 15th of the current 4-H year
Junior Leaders will provide year-round opportunities for members to engage in events and activities focused on leadership and service at the county level. Junior Leaders will help plan county events and take a leadership role in making these events go well. All 4-H kids 13 & older are welcome to attend. The club is all about fun, community involvement, and leadership.
There are many travel opportunities for 4-H youth. Stay Tuned for 2026 travel opportunities.
Showcase Showdown is a fun-filled 3-day event at the University of Wyoming where youth dive into contests, workshops, tours, and activities- plus dances, games, ice cream socials, and an awards ceremony! This years showcase showdown will be June 17 – 19th, 2025 in Laramie WY.
Registration for the 2025 Showcase Showdown has Closed
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The Wyoming 4-H State Shoot is host to over 600 youth who showcase their shooting skills in seven different disciplines. The event will take place July 10th-13th, 2025 in Douglas WY.
- Individual Registration due – June 16th 2025
- Shotgun Squad Sheets due – June 24th 2025
- Team Registration due – June 24th 2025
- County Delegation Payments due – Before State Shoot
Advanced Air Shooting is for 4-H shooting sports members who have shot for 3 years or older members who have shot well and moved quickly into challenger or precision rifles, there are exceptions at times.
The State 4-H Leadership team provides opportunities for youth to represent 4-H through leadership and service at a state level. State 4-H Leadership team is a select team of senior aged youth that have demonstrated leadership in their county 4-H programs, and who are interested in developing and refining skills to teach other 4-H youth about leadership, promotion, and service. Team members will also work on events/projects pertaining to their project area of choice.
- Individual Application DUE : 2025 Date TBD
- Extension Educator Application Due: 2025 Date TBD
2025 Dates TBD
4-H Horse Camp is open to all Wyoming 4-H Club Members, Parents, 4-H Leaders, and Wyoming Extension Personnel. The educational programs presented at Horse Camp are designed to provide practical, hands-on training. The major emphasis of the camp is to improve safe riding and handling skills.
Special Notes:
- In an effort to promote a safer, more educational environment for our youth, riding will be limited to youth and instructors only.
- Livestock Travel Brochure (Taking Horses Across County Lines)
Camp Objectives:
All of the activities and presentations are designed to help accomplish the following:
- For the participants to enjoy themselves and have fun
- For the participants to learn and understand horse safety
- For the participants to enhance their horsemanship abilities
- To improve basic horse knowledge through skill-a-thons
- To improve the skills of 4-H Members in areas such as saddling, bridling, basic seat, balance, control turn on haunches, forehand, collection, and lateral flexion.
2025 Dates TBD
Each year during the Thanksgiving Break in Atlanta, the National 4-H Congress is hosted. If you are a 4-H member between 14 and 19 years old (and have not attended in the past), you can represent NYS 4-H Youth Development at the National 4-H Congress. This is a premiere, global-focused event filled with opportunities to make 4-H friends from around the country, explore Atlanta, give back through community service, attend powerful workshops, tours, and to head home to have deep impacts on your community, country, and world. The NYS 4-H office will assist with registration but does not have any financial assistance to offer for this national experience at this time. If interested, please communicate with your county educator to see if there is county-level funding for you to access.
The 4-H livestock judging program helps youth build skills around self-confidence, decision making, analytical thinking, communication and team work. Youth learn to evaluate beef, sheep, swine and goats based on a set of visual appraisal points, which they learn through the teaching of volunteer leaders. Livestock judging includes a competition factor that provides the ultimate hands on approach to applying what the youth has learned in the classroom to a judging competition. They apply all of the life skills they have learned in one setting, making a decision and defending it through oral reasoning or question recall. The participants’ goals are to align their decisions of evaluating four animals as close to the officials’ placing as possible. This contest is done individually.
The Livestock Skill-a-thon provides youth an opportunity to blend the knowledge they learn in the classroom with the hands-on skills they are learning from the care and exhibition of their animals, into one activity. Youth gain a comprehensive knowledge about animal science topics such as breeds of livestock, external parts, wholesale cuts, equipment identification, feed identification, quality assurance and evaluation. For senior members it includes additional stations on meat science, wool evaluations and reproduction. This fun competition is completed as a team of youth that work together relaying their information they have learned, along with completing an application scenario in a group think process. Teams consist of 3-5 members of the same age group.
Horse Judging allows youth to learn to evaluate a horse’s form as it relates to function, and compare it to the ideal as well as to other horses, placing classes and doing presentations of reasons. In Hippology 4-Her’s will acquire knowledge and understanding of equine science and husbandry. Attached are links to the handbook for each age division.
Produce Judging teaches participants as consumers how to select good produce, and as produce buyers/horticulture commodity producers, what sells best to consumers. Produce will be either fruits or vegetables that are commonly grown or consumed in Wyoming.
2026 Dates TBD
The wool judging contest consists of members placing classes of wool fleeces; grading 20-30 wool fleeces and and completing either reasons or questions based on their age division. This contest is done individually.