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Welcome to the Ashland County UW-Extension Website!

Ashland County UW-Extension staff work in partnership with people in county, state, federal, and tribal governments; community organizations; volunteers; business; and industry. With faculty in every county and on UW-campuses, Cooperative Extension gives Wisconsin citizens quick and convenient access to University research and knowledge.

Tom Wojociechowski
Tom Wojciechowski
Community, Natural Resource and Economic Development Agent
tom.wojciechowski@ces.uwex.edu

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http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/ashland/4h/index.html

Doug Liphart
Doug Liphart
4-H Youth Development Agent
doug.liphart@ces.uwex.edu

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http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/ashland/flp/index.html

Kathy Beeksma
Kathy Beeksma
Family Living Agent,
Coordinator, Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program, Ashland & Bayfield Counties kathy.beeksma@ces.uwex.edu

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http://www. uwex.edu/ces/cty/ashland/ag/index.html

Jason Fischbach
Jason Fischbach
Agriculture Agent Bayfield/Ashland Counties
jason.fischbach@ces.uwex.edu

Program Areas Highlights

4-H Winter Camp 2010

a success!

by Ian Liphart

Ian Liphart

This year’s 4-H Winter Camp in Delta was great! It was definitely a highlight of my 4-H activities this year. Winter Camp was held on the weekend of January 22-24 in a perfect facility—Crosswoods Camp. Many traditional winter camp activities, like broomball, were featured this year, but other new ones were added as well. These included educational rotations such as “To Build A Fire” (with Jack London). I attended this and loved it. We learned how to build fires with only 2 matches, then roasted marshmallows over the fires on a stick.
The biggest activity this year was the “Power of Wind” turbine project. This was possible through a grant from 3M. We worked in groups to build the most efficient wind turbine out of a pre-determined set of materials. At the end, we had a competition to see which group’s turbine generated the most watts. We also wired them all together to see what our “wind farm” would produce. It was awesome and I learned a lot about wiring and how wind turbines are created, and how they produce electricity. We were told about the uses of wind energy and learned the different techniques for getting the most out of a turbine. Lots of “trial and error” experimentation came into play on the project. I like engineering and architecture, so I may use the information we learned—even in a future job. Working in groups was fun and taught us team work.
Everything from snowball fights to wind energy was fun, and that made camp awesome!

 

 

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Ashland County UW Extension
Courthouse Room 107
Ashland, WI 54806-1652
Phone: 715-682-7017
Fax: 715-682-7922
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MISSION

With an office in each Wisconsin county, Cooperative Extension develops practical educational programs tailored to local needs and based on university knowledge and research.

County-based Extension educators are University of Wisconsin faculty and staff who are experts in agriculture and agribusiness, community and economic development, natural resources, family living and youth development.

Extension county-based faculty and staff live and work with the people they serve in communities across the state. Extension specialists work on UW System campuses where they access current research and knowledge. Collaboration between county and campus faculty is the hallmark of Cooperative Extension in Wisconsin.