Cornell receives Holiday Match

FONDA — The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Fulton and Montgomery counties received a $1,000 grant from the Stewart’s Holiday Match program to be used for 4-H Youth Development programming. This programming will be based on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) education. The Fulton-Montgomery 4-H program currently provides the 4-H Incubation and Embryology project to schools within our counties and hopes to utilize these funds to build upon this existing STEAM programming. The goal is to bring more diversity of hands-on STEAM projects to both our 4-H enrolled members and school programs, according to a news release.

All youths ages 5 to 18 and adults interested in volunteering for the program are welcome to visit the CCE Fulton-Montgomery office, 20 Park St., Room 202, during office hours — from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Anyone who would like additional details regarding the Fulton-Montgomery 4-H Youth Development program, should contact Kyle Yacobucci, 4-H Club coordinator at [email protected] or call the office at (518) 853-2135; or check out Facebook at “CCE Fulton-Montgomery,” the news release stated.

By Kerry Minor

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