Please note that these subjects range from farm to city and from specific problems to large-scale concepts like community planning. After selecting a favorite topic, share the ideas and seek information to construct your posters and choose your words. In every county there are lots of sources of information. These include parents, volunteer leaders, your Cooperative Extension Office, the office of your Soil and Water Conservation District and Natural Resources Conservation Service and fellow 4-H'ers. These topics have friends in nearly every county.
Local communities have numerous knowledgeable, civic-minded resource people.
These include farmers practicing good soil and water conservation, well-trained persons who install septic systems, and those who construct buildings and roads. In most cases they would be delighted to help a youngster prepare and learn. In addition to those cited above, here are more examples of people with information. Each judge is urged to ask at least one question of the presenter.