Ending a long ride

As the 20%  projects wind down for class, mine is seeing more and more of a future. I recently found out that a different group of people run the Western National Round up for hippology. I send my previous national email to them and I'm hoping they will be more willing to change. I do think it's strange that there are two national horse competitions. If there are two is it really "national"? Plus your, for example, 10th place person at the western competition could be better than your 1st place person at the eastern competition and since they are so hot and heavy about being the best, and not about education, I don't understand why they think it's acceptable. The way they do hippology now is not pushing more for education, but rather to find the best of the best which is not what 4-H is about. It really bothers me that they are more worried about winning then the education aspect of the competition. 4-H is about education, the competitions are a side part of it NOT the main component of it. (ok rant over). On a better note, I have found almost all hippology/horse program websites for all  50 states. I believe I only have 16 left to find! And on an even better note  I got to learn how to drive with Toby at a mini clinic that one of the 4-H moms did. It was soooooo cool!!

k3 = -M [v²A (Δl2) +2Aηg -λ1( ax +ay)]/ (λ1C +λ3A) (1) The Physics of Horse Jumping

As we come down to the final weeks of the 20% project things are getting crazy. Yesterday was the AP Physics exam which, to say it nicely, made mw want to go home, sit on the couch, open up a gallon of cookie dough ice cream, watch Grey's Anatomy on Neflix and cry.(ok maybe I'm beeing a little dramatic). With my project I'm continueing to work on the website and have added buttons to link every state to its hippology or horse program. Adding all the buttons took forever. I'm figureing out more how to use wix to create my site and have figure out how to make links to pages through button and such. I have also found out wh othe equine specialist is of NYS 4-H and sent her my email asking about changeing the state's hippology structure. On a side note, Sunday was Maria's first horse show!! I'm so excited that it is finally warm enough (and dry enough) to ride everyday. Maybe I can do some research with my horse and go to a clinician and do a video.

Response!!!

Got a responce! But on the down side I can't change anything on the National level but on the postitve side I can try to change things at the state level!

Change in Stride

So, I still have no responce from the Hippology people so some further action will need to be taken. In the meantime I have been working on my website that had been put on hold. I have created quite a few tabs and hae started to add credible websites from universities that have horse judging clubs or are 4-H extensions like Cornell. I have even found a few site that I'm really excited about useful myself! I'm thinking that my final product is going to be my site which I will continue to work on and improve after the 20% Project ends. With how busy I am becomeing I think doing my own videos will get put on hold but I hope to create some, possibley during the summer.  I would also like to continue to promote my ouyline of Hippology and maybe in the future I will be able to get them to try it out.

Le cheval

Bonjour! *bisou* So, my project went on a little bit of a brake due to my adventure in France with a few fellow bloggers, including a brotatoe, dunkin dolphin, limelight and Emily the signer. France was a lot of fun and I even got to go to a horse show with my host family. Since sending out the letter I have not gotten any responses back :( but, I have sent out a note to the people to see if they even received my email. If I don't get anything back by then, I am planning to call the people and see if I can get a hold of them that way ( I  can be very persistent). I'm thinking about contacting come of the horse associations to see if they will help with information for my site that has an official source rather then it being for some random 4-H girl. Hopefully things will be in full swing by the end of the week.

Letter

Letter sent... Now we wait. 

The Holsteins, Brown Swiss and Jerseys....Oh My

So between preparing for my trip to France, school, 4-H and everything else in my life not as much has gotten done, as I hoped, with my project. The very final touches are being done of my letter and it will hopefully be sent out tomorrow morning. I really have been working hard making it just right. I also got contact info on a guy in nearby who does horse judging. I'm hopeing to talk to him soon and see if he is willing to do some videos of confirmation/ halter classes. Two weekend ago was my regions Hippology contest in which my senior team placed first. The first picture is of my fellow team mates and I. This past weekend I went to a dairy judging clinic up at Cornell. I really liked the way they went through everything and demonstrated how to judge dairy cows. I going to try to use the same tactics in the horse judging videos.