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About the Department
If you can make it…you can enter it! The sky is the limit. Bring your paintings, crayon drawings, sewn or quilted items, crafts, photography, wood projects, etc. to the Youth Expo and join the fair family. Use your imagination. It’s fun to see your items displayed when you visit the fair. Click the link on the right hand side (in the yellow box) to download the 2011 Entry Guide.

Volunteer Opportunities
Before the Fair opens – join us for fun and friendship as we clean, take in entries, judge and display everything that has been entered. Any time you can spare is welcomed. Opportunities are available from July 19 – August 2. Opportunities are available for runners, clerks, and judges. During the Fair – We can always use help hosting in the building. Shifts are 4 hours throughout the duration of the fair.

Contact Peggy Kroener at youth@venturacountyfair.org for more information and to sign up to volunteer.

Glue A Shoe Contest
Wednesday, August 3 & Wednesday, August 10.
Entries due between 11:00 and 1:00
... Youth ages 5-18, decorate a shoe, boot, flip-flop slipper or other footwear with buttons, beds, sequins, feathers and ???
...winners announced at 3:00

FARM DERBY COMPETITION NEW CONTEST for 2011 FAIR
Presented by Time Warner Cable and "Connect a Million Minds"

Design and build a functioning, non-motorized farm vehicle to transport “produce” (1 lemon) from the farmer’s “orchard to the packing plant.” The winning vehicle in each age division is the one that can safely transport its produce the furthest distance from the top of the orchard (wooden ramp), down a hill and across the farm field (stage) to reach the packing plant at the far end of farm. Click the link on the right hand side (below the Entry Guide) for details

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