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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i>Feel free to share the following youth & teen programs with families in your library:<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>4-H Coding Weekend Workshop-An Intro to Coding</b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black">:</span> Saturday and Sunday April 10 & 11, and May 22 & 23, 2021- Registration
DEADINE - Registration closes Wednesday, April 7th @ Midnight!</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0A0A0A;background:#FEFEFE">The 4-H Coding Weekend Workshop will help you discover your passion for technology and enable you to continue practicing throughout high school. This course includes
4-days (2 weekends) of virtual instruction to hone your coding skills. Whether you have prior computer coding knowledge, or have never even thought about it, you will gain valuable coding experience and skills. By the end of the workshop, you will learn to
develop with your own tech ideas; design and code a website from scratch! Specific coding languages taught during the program include HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby, Rails, and Github.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u>WHERE:</u> Virtually via Zoom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u>WHO:</u> <b>Youth currently in grades 9-12.</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u>COST:</u> The cost to attend this four-day workshop (2 weekends) is $150 and includes tech support and program fees.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u>MATERIALS REQUIRED:</u> Computer with internet and the ability to do video conferencing (microphone and webcam).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black;background:white">FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO REGISTER, AND PAY:</span></u><span style="color:black;background:white">
</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.anr.msu.edu%2F4HCodingWeekendWorkshop%2F&data=04%7C01%7CLancasterC5%40michigan.gov%7C368e3ae6522a4b9253fb08d8ed3a0139%7Cd5fb7087377742ad966a892ef47225d1%7C0%7C0%7C637520180708351348%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=wiYiInSA7bIsSJlAc3V0ed4F5JTPp9178DFDiqaYu00%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://events.anr.msu.edu/4HCodingWeekendWorkshop/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Space is limited to 20 participants. This workshop is offered in collaboration with CodeNow and Code Nation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Questions? Contact Christine Miller at MSU Extension at 517-552-6905 or email
<a href="mailto:johns832@msu.edu">johns832@msu.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN">4-H Dance Party SPIN Club</span></b><span lang="EN"> will begin on Monday, April 12th and end Friday, April 16th, registration closes on April 8<sup>th</sup>. This club will meet virtually every day from 4-5:15pm EST.
Explore computer coding by programming your own Dance Party! This is an introduction to computer coding. Participants will need access to the internet to go to the coding site. This 4-H SPIN Club is
<b><u><span style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">FREE</span></u></b><u><span style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">
</span></u><span style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">and <b><u>OPEN</u></b><u>
</u>to 4-H and non-4-H members <b>ages 8 to 14</b>. </span> For more information and to register, please visit:
<a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.anr.msu.edu%2F4HDancePartySPINClub%2F&data=04%7C01%7CLancasterC5%40michigan.gov%7C368e3ae6522a4b9253fb08d8ed3a0139%7Cd5fb7087377742ad966a892ef47225d1%7C0%7C0%7C637520180708361303%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=m%2FrEHIwcUAo91Us9AzJrwRSplGZvKtZZuNZY9bPJXrg%3D&reserved=0">
https://events.anr.msu.edu/4HDancePartySPINClub/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN" style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">This 4-H SPIN Club will meet virtually via
</span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fdownload&data=04%7C01%7CLancasterC5%40michigan.gov%7C368e3ae6522a4b9253fb08d8ed3a0139%7Cd5fb7087377742ad966a892ef47225d1%7C0%7C0%7C637520180708361303%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=cjwIGNwgVtj5pXuAjSYrRBbgeqhE03g0wUm8%2FNx8214%3D&reserved=0"><span lang="EN" style="color:#18453B;background:white">Zoom</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">
(both computer and smartphone accessible). Zoom link information will only be sent to event registrants that complete their 4-H Online enrollment by April 8<sup>th</sup>
</span><span style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">(Club is listed under Livingston County – SPIN Club Dance Party Club)</span><span lang="EN" style="color:#0A0A0A;background:white">. </span>Questions? Contact Christine Miller at MSU Extension at 517-552-6905
or email <a href="mailto:johns832@msu.edu">johns832@msu.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you and have a great day,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Christine Miller</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">MSU Extension Livingston County<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">517-552-6905 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">517-375-6337 (cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:johns832@msu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">johns832@msu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="color:black">Youth Services Coordinator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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