Note: This site is for reviewing legacy plan of work data from 2007-2011. If you are looking for the current plan of work interface, visit pow.nmsu.edu.

Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Chaves County)
Date October 15, 2008, 8:31 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report After school sewing classes were held at the Chaves County Extension Office and were conducted by the home economist. These classes were offered to the first fifteen 4th & 5th graders at Pecos Elementary. Sewing Class Flyers/Permission forms were distributed to approximately 125 students and seven forms were returned. The students attended four classes every Thursday in the month of April from 3:00 to 5:00pm at the Extension Office. This was a new experience for many of the participants and their families to attend an after school class at a location other than their school. The first session began with an introduction about the Chaves County Extension Service and the 4-H programs. Also during the session, students gained knowledge about sewing equipment, parts of the machine, sewing safety rules, and how to sew straight lines. Each student left excited about learning this new life skill and were anxious about the next sessions. The second session began with a review from the first class. During this session, the students applied the knowledge gained from the first session and made a scrunchie from the 4-H Sewing I Project Curriculum. In the third session, the students made totebags from the 4-H Sewing I Project Curriculum. During the 4th session, students made pillowcases from the 4-H Quilting Project. For a community service project, the students made a quilt that was donated to their school. It was going to be raffled off and the money was to be used for the Accelerated Reading Program. There was 100 % Attendance in all four classes with 7 Hispanic youth attending. Comments: During the last class, one student told me that she was so sad today. I asked her why and she said “because it’s out last class”.