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4-H Challenge utilizes several different types of activities. Although each of these activities takes a different shape and some focus on different immediate goals, all activities are built on the Challenge model and work to develop life skills. Some participants will find these activities mentally challenging, others emotionally challenging, and a few, physically challenging. Regardless of the challenge, each activity presents everyone with an opportunity for learning and growth. |
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Portable Challenge 
The 4-H Portable Challenge program represents the most basic form of the 4-H Challenge model. With a relative small collection of assorted props, a trained facilitator has an endless array of games, activities and initiatives designed to teach life skills. Because of the limited amount of equipment needed for most portable activities, the program can be taken into almost any setting: classrooms, gyms, hallways, meeting rooms, church parking lots, retreat centers, indoors, outdoors, and just about anywhere else a group might meet.
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Low Challenge Course
Built in the woods just outside of town, our Low Challenge Courses incorporates several specially designed physical activities. Constructed out of logs, cables and lumber, these activities range from a few inches to several feet off the ground. Some activities require swinging on a rope; others require balancing on a log. Regardless of its physical nature, each activity requires the group to develop a safe way to get all of their members successfully through the activities. Because of its location in a natural setting and separation from participants normal environment, these activities create a heightened sense of adventure and a greater physical challenge then most Portable activities. |
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High Challenge Course
Our High Challenge Course moves away from focusing on group dynamics and interpersonal relationships and becomes more individualistic in nature. Participants use safety gear, similar to that used in rock climbing, to climb up to platforms attached to fir and pine trees 35-40 feet off the ground. Once on the platforms, participants walk out onto various activities built out of steel cables, ropes or logs. All of our challenge leaders receive specialized training from qualified Washington State University trainers, ensuring the highest level of safety for each participant.
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Challenge Rock Climbing
Similar to our high ropes course program, Challenge Rock Climbing will help participants develop trust, self-confidence and communication skills. Participants will spend 1 to 3 days learning how clear communication, healthy and unhealthy risks, and supportive trusting relationships play an important role in not only rock climbing but in their entire life. |
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Family Challenge
 4-H Family Challenge utilizes the 4-H Challenge model of Adventure-based Experiential Education with families. Through a mixture of non-threatening, “hands-on” activities, Family Challenge is designed to address family issues such as communication and problem-solving skills, promoting a positive parent-child relationships in an atmosphere of fun and support. Also known as Family Night Out, WSU Extension and its community partners have used 4-H Family Challenge since the mid 1990’s. It has been extremely well received in under-served rural areas by families who otherwise would not participate in traditional programs. The program has helped to build more resilient families and communities by bringing area families together to meet and play, often for the first time, and has resulted in greater participation in other school and community evenings. |
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