OSU Sherman County Extension

09/02/2026

Steve Burnet Extension Building will be closed Monday, Sept 7 for Labor Day.

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08/10/2026

The OSU Sherman County Extension office has N95 masks and a few box fan filters available for those being impacted by the recent wildfire smoke. Thankfully air quality has improved dramatically but may worsen again if winds shift.

07/29/2026

Final day of youth STEAM "Art and Food Around the World" day camp, with today being Australia. We learned about boomerangs, listened to some Australian music, tried making a paper boomerang, painted boomerang templates, then prepared food ("Tucker"). Vegemite & Cheese Rollups, grilled onions and sausages ("snags"), and Milo (malted milk powder) balls, plus sliced kiwi. The descriptions of Vegemite ranged from "smells like cat food" to "salty" to "it might be good on beef ramen".

07/28/2026

Day 2 of Art and Food Around the World day camp, today we were in Peru. Learned about textiles and weaving, practiced weaving using cardboard looms, and made three South America recipes: Ensalada Chilena (onions and tomatoes), Empanadas (meat pies) and Alfjores (Caramel filled layered cookie).

07/27/2026

First day of Art and Food Around the World youth day camp, with today's country being Russia. Learned about Matryoshka nesting dolls and made our own with a paper template. Then prepared, cooked and ate stuffed cabbage, red borscht soup and blinchiki (crepes). Decided the food was okay or not as bad as we expected! Loved the sweet traditional Russian pancakes aka blini.

07/21/2026

Kids age 10+, we've got a few spots left for next week's "Traveling Artist" (art + food) day camp Monday July 27-Wednesday July 29 9am-12pm at the Sherman Extension Office in Moro. Each day will focus on a different country with an art project then making (and eating!) several recipes. Our countries will be Russia with paper nesting dolls and borscht, stuffed cabbage and blini pancakes; Peru with yarn weaving and empanadas, cooked onions & tomatoes, and alfaores (dessert); and Australia with a working paper boomerang and sausages "on the barbie", Vegemite and cheese roll-ups, and Milo malted chocolate balls. Call 541-565-3230 or email [email protected] to sign up.

07/15/2026

Final day of kids STEM daycamp on superheroes and their powers. Started off with villian Riddler who uses brain power and confusing riddles, did a few thinking and observation activities, practiced building Riddler's cane without instructions, talked about Gotham City and dropping in building supplies after an earthquake, built and tested Lego builds that wouldn't break when dropped, then finished up outside building a variety of floating structures. A good time was had by all!

07/14/2026

Day 2 of STEM daycamp The Science of Superpowers. Today learned how Batman actually doesn't have any super powers but is smart, rich and has amazing tools including his car; built and raced Lego Batmobiles; learned about Spidermans powers, practiced creating static electricity, made a web with yarn, and learned about geckos who can climb walls; then finished up with Capt America building shields and deflecting projectiles.

07/13/2026

First day of Extension's kids STEM day camp "The Science of Superpowers", Kids brainstormed all types of Superpowers and drew their own superhero; learned that Superman defies gravity to fly, learned how to defy gravity ourselves using magnets: learned how planes fly, folded and flew paper airplanes, then did a Lego build of Wonder Woman's amazing plane.

07/07/2026

Sherman Extension served as a guest speaker for the Sherman Library Summer Reading Program "Plant a Seed, Read". Topic was Garden Science with 17 kids attending, ranging in age from 3 to 13. First part was learning about what plants need to thrive (air, water, sun etc) then making bracelets with colored beads for each need. Second part was how composting is nature's way of recycling, and kids made compost bins layered with different colors of paper to represent compostable materials like grass, leaves, paper, dry leaves, kitchen scraps and animal manure.