This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following link: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/roundup_science_fair_2025.pdf

Does the thought of speaking in front of large groups make you nervous? Do you want to learn how to be a better speaker? Overcome fear of crowds and improve your presentation skills in the public speaking project! You’ll learn how to prepare with research, organization, and then present on any given topic. By the end of this project, you will be able to speak on fascinating topics with style and poise.
Contest Rules: 2025 Public Speaking Guide
Score Sheet: Public Speaking Scoresheet
Resources:
Public Speaking Project Page
Public Speaking… 4-H Style
Explore Public Speaking

An educational presentation is a fun way to share information with others about your 4-H project. You can give an educational presentation by yourself or with one (1) of your 4-H friends. The Educational Presentation competitions may take place at county, district and the state level (for senior 4-H members). All presentations should address current issues related to the topic category A 4-H educational presentation is a demonstration of your knowledge and skills in a certain project area. This presentation is done in a way that is most comfortable to you. It can be accomplished using props (method demonstration), posters or media presentations (illustrated talk), or it can be you just speaking and convincing, or simply educating, with words alone (public speaking).
Contest Rules: 2025 Educational Presentation Guide
Score Sheet: Educational Presentation Scoresheet
Resources:
What is an Educational Presentation
Educational Presentation Category Descriptions

In theater and performance arts, 4-H members may participate in skits through acting, or showcase other talents such as vocal performance, play an instrument, dance, read poetry, conduct puppetry…and more! Through theater and performance arts, 4-H members will develop a spirit of cooperation, develop self-confidence through public performance, discover and develop their talents, and grow socially, culturally, and develop their leadership skills. But most importantly, theater and performance arts is about HAVING FUN!

The Texas 4-H Talent Showcase contest (formerly Share-the-Fun) has seven categories: 4-H Skit, Choreographed Routines, Variety Show, Musical/Instrumental, Poetry/Prose, Solo/Band Performance, Vocal

Contest Rules: 2025 Talent Showcase Guide
Score Sheet: Talent Showcase Scoresheet
Resources: Please review the following resources carefully as there have been several changes this year. Texas 4-H Talent Showcase

The 4-H Fashion Show is designed to recognize 4-H members who have completed a Clothing and Textiles project. The following objectives are taught in the project: knowledge of fibers and fabrics, wardrobe selection, clothing construction, comparison shopping, fashion interpretation, understanding of style, good grooming, poise in front of others and personal presentation skills. The 4-H Fashion Show is a contest for members to exhibit skills in application of their knowledge of fibers and fabrics to wardrobe selection, clothing construction or comparison shopping, fashion interpretation and understanding of style, good grooming and poise, and modeling and presentation of themselves and their garments at county, district and state levels. The Fashion Show has three divisions: Buying, Construction, and Natural Fiber.

At the Food Show you choose a recipe from the contest categories and then prepare and present it to a panel of judges. During your interview with the judges, you will show how you prepared it, the nutrients and ingredients, personal dietary needs, healthy substitutions, and a cost analysis.

This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following link: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/food_show_guidelines_25_26.pdf

Resources:
• Daily Nutritional Requirements (all food groups)

• Protein
• Fruit
• Veggie
• Grains
• Dairy Food and Sample Portions (for MyPlate Groups)

Recipes For Good Health

4-H Food Challenge is unique opportunity for a team of 4-H members to put their knowledge and skills in foods, nutrition, safe food handling, teamwork, and public speaking to work. This event mimics some of the “Iron Chef” concepts while showcasing 4-H project skills.
At the Food Challenge, teams of 3-4 students receive a list of ingredients and have 40 minutes to create a dish. The teams then present their dish to judges which are scored on preparation, serving size, food safety concerns, nutritional value and cost. Students qualify at the district level to compete at the state contest. Review all the rules in the Food Challenge Manual.
Resources:
Food Challenge Manual 

Texas 4-H Food & Nutrition Resources

Texas 4-H Food Challenge Explore Guide 

The Robotics Challenge is structured as a sumo-style competition. The sumo format will test teams’ strategy, engineering design, and programming skills. Teams will bring a fully assembled and programmed robot to compete against others in the tournament until a winner is declared.

Two robots will “wrestle” in a dohyō (sumo ring) designed for robots. As with human Sumo wrestling, the goal of sumo-style robotics is to gain leverage over an opponent and force it out of the ring.
Please note, this is NOT a “battle bots” style competition. In other words, intentionally destructive robots are not allowed.

This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following link: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/roundup_robotics_challenge_2026.pdf

Resources:
• Project Information Sheet
• Explore Guide: Robotics– Building Blocks of Bots
• Robotic Resource Links

Model Rocketry Contest Details

Seniors qualifying for state – Fort Bend County may enter only one photo per category for a total of 18 entries. Therefore, the top senior photo in each category may be entered into the state contest. State Contest Registration on 4HOnline and Submittable Opens: April 1, 2026 & Closes: April 15, 2026 at 11:59 pm.

State Contest Rules

General Rules:
All photos must be printed and securely/permanently mounted on an 8×10 solid photographic mount board or a board of like thickness and suitable for hanging without an additional frame.

Color and Black & White photos are allowed in all categories. Although slight computer enhancements are allowed, such as cropping, minor adjustment of lighting, and red eye reduction; substantially altered photography, such as applying design styles, or using computer graphics will disqualify an entry. Any other alteration, manipulation, or edits to a photo would require the photo to be entered into the Enhanced category.

The entry must be the original photographic work of the 4-H member and not a photo taken by family members, other 4-H members, or secured from any other printed/electronic source. Any photo proven to be found as not original work will result in disqualification of ALL the 4-H member’s entries into the Photography Contest.

Only 1 entry per category will be allowed, with a maximum of 10 overall. Each photo’s entry tag must include the category the photo is being entered in.

Judging Criteria and Categories will follow the State Photography Contest rules which can be found on pages 4-5 at this link https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/photography_state_contest_2025_2026.pdf

Clover Kids and Junior to Senior 4-H members are encouraged to create “upcycled” crafts in the style of the Duds to Dazzle 4-H Contest. Youth can enter at up to 2 items from each division but can’t duplicate items, ex. 2 t-shirts. Items will be judged on use of the recycled item, relevance, construction, and appearance.

The 4-H Storyboard is an industry-inspired method of displaying original designs. The storyboard “tells the story” of the designer’s idea. The storyboard includes original illustrations, flats, and more to promote the design. Now an Invitational contest for Senior members!
This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following links: Guidelines | Label | Scoresheet
• 2025 Instructions
• Wakelet Collection
• Storyboards: 2025 | 2024 | 2023

Storyboard Resources:
• Designer’s Nexus
• Exploring The Elements and Principles of Design
• Fashion Era
• Principles and Elements of Design
• Unraveling the Mystery of Design Elements and Principles in Clothing

This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following link:

Collection Guidelines (PDF).

However, since this is the first year of the county contest, you may use up to 80% of your collection from the previous year.

Resources:
Videos for 4-H Entomology Study
Study Guide – General (PDF)
Study Guide – Holometabolous Insects (PDF)
Study Guide – Insects with Simple Metamorphosis (PDF)
Study Guide – Non Insects (PDF)
Video: Tips for Making a 4-H Entomology Insect Collection

The Texas 4-H Photography Judging contest allows 4-H members to demonstrate skills in the evaluation, selection, and placing of photographs based on industry standards and expectations. The 4-H members participating in the contest will judge 5 classes of photographs and problems, testing both the participant’s knowledge and skills in the photography project. Participants will then explain their placings, practicing their public speaking skills through oral reasons.

Contest Rules:
Oral reasons are part of the Roundup Photography Judging contest. The scores from the reasons portion of the contest will be added to the judging score to determine placings.

Reasons should be no more than 2 minutes long. Oral reasons will be presented over 2 classes, one judging and one problem class. After scoring all 5 classes, youth will then transition into the reasons portion of the contest. Youth will be given 10 minutes to prepare their set of reasons.

Judging classes can consist of photographs from the categories of people, animals, plant/flora, nature/landscape, special/digital effects, night photography, black & white, animals (domestic or wildlife), details/macro, architecture, or other categories as deemed by the contest committee and judges.

Photography problem classes will cover such things as exposure, ISO,shutter speed, focal length, white balance, camera settings, composition, technique, photo shooting situations, and other questions as deemed necessary by the contest committee and judges. The official judging rubric for the Texas 4-H Photography contest should be used as a resource for the photography judging contest.

Resources available at the Photography Project Page https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/projects/photography/

This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following link: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/roundup_livestock_skillathon_guide_2026.pdf

This contest will follow the rules of the Texas 4-H contest found at the following link: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/roundup_vet_science_skillathon_guidelines_2026.pdf

The 4-H Wildlife Skillathon covers material found within five 4-H Natural Resources projects; Wildlife & Fisheries Project, Hunting & Wildlife project, Entomology Project, Forestry Project, and Sportfishing Project. Contestants will have the opportunity to explore all five of these projects while preparing for the 4-H Wildlife Challenge. Contestants will compete as individuals in their respective age division (Clover Kids, Junior, Intermediate or Senior). Each activity may cover any of the specified information within the 4-H Natural Resources project area.

Resources
The D9 Wildlife Skillathon resources document will be posted on the District 9 Wildlife Skillathon website: https://d94-h.tamu.edu/eventsandcontests/bigtime/wildlife-challenge/

In the shooting sports project, youth learn about a variety of shooting sports disciplines, proper maintenance and use of equipment, parts and accessories identification, proper safety procedures, laws and ethics related to shooting and hunting, and careers related to shooting sports.
The County 4-H Shooting Sports Skillathon tests a contestant’s knowledge of range and equipment safety, equipment and range ID, and shooting sports skills. The contest is focused on safety and shooting sports knowledge, there will be no target shooting. Resources for the contests are listed below. Contestants can compete in one or all 3 of the shooting sports Skillathon disciplines of 15 which Fort Bend County 4-H offers: rifle, shotgun, and archery.

Clover kids are not allowed to participate in this contest.

Resources:
Texas 4-H Shooting Sports: https://texas4-h.tamu.edu/projects/shooting-sports/

National 4-H Shooting Sports Quiz Bowl Guides:  https://4-hshootingsports.org/quiz-bowl-study-guides/

In this project you will learn how to compare prices, test for quality and make purchases based on facts and research. You will also improve your: Money management skills, Smart purchasing skills and Decision-making skills. The contest includes eight judging classes and two sets of oral reasons. Seven classes are selected from the current Consumer Decision Making Study Guides; the eighth class is a “mystery” class. Participants are given seven minutes to place each class and two minutes to present each set of oral reasons.
• CDM Guide – Link to Guide
• CDM – Presenting Oral Reasons – Link to Oral Reasons
• CDM Worksheet – Link to Worksheet

The 4-H Entomology Identification Contest consists of two parts:
(1) a written examination: The written examination consists of true/false, multiple-choice, or completion questions prepared from the study materials linked below.
(2) insect identification: Actual specimens or photographs may be used in the identification portion of the contest.

Each part is worth 50% of the total score. The contest consists of three age divisions: Junior, Intermediate, and Senior.

Note: Clover Kids may participate and will be tested on the Junior Level material.

Each level is responsible for that level and all previous levels. For example, Intermediates are responsible for both Intermediate and Junior level material. Contest rules can be found in the 4-H Entomology ID Contest Guidelines document.

All contest questions will be prepared from the following 4-H Entomology study guides.
4-H Entomology ID Contest Guidelines (and Study Guide)
Study Guide – General (PDF)
Study Guide – Holometabolous Insects (PDF)
Study Guide – Insects with Simple Metamorphosis (PDF)
Study Guide – Non Insects (PDF)

This contest provides youth the ability to further their knowledge and skills when evaluating agricultural products grown in Texas. For the Agriculture Product Identification contest, 20 Texas agricultural products are selected and exhibited at separate stations. Contestants select the correct identification of each product from four possible answers. Following the product identification, each station has one multiple-choice question pertaining to the product on display. Questions can be general to the industry that produced the product, (i.e. Texas’ national ranking, economic impact to Texas, general nutrition content, region of production) and specific to the individual product that is on display (i.e. cooking method, use, growing season, specific nutrition of the cut or variety).
Resources:
• Agricultural Product ID Explore Guide
• Agricultural Product ID Training Video
• Agricultural Product ID PowerPoint
• Mini Mock Contest (5 stations)
• Agricultural Product ID Guide