Wear your uniform and get $1.00 off gate admission price for scouts and leaders. Pick up your coupon at the Fairpark Administration Office prior to purchasing your gate admission tickets. Offer is not good toward Discount tickets!

For more information call (801) 538-8400.

Patches

• Utah State Fairpark Patch
• Hometown Discovery- #2 Learn about a local celebration or community event and attend.
• Citizenship- #7 Plan a trip to a place or event in your community.

Belt Loops

• Fishing- Demonstrate proper way to bait pole and try to catch a fish at the Wildlife Building.

Academic Pin

Wolf Cub Scout Book

• Achievement 10- Family Fun 10 c- Plan a walk. Go to a park or wooded area, visit a zoo, or museum with the family.
• 10 f- Attend a concert, play, or other live program with the Family (check State Fair Program).
• Elective 19- Fishing b. Learn how to rig a pole, cast, and go fishing at the Wildlife Building.c. Fish with members of your family or a grown-up. Bait your hook and catch a fish.

Bear Cub Scout Book

• Achievement 5- Sharing your world with Wildlife c. Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does. Get to know a conservation officer from your state or federal fish and wildlife service. Make sure to tell the officer that you are a Cub Scout and are working on this achievement.
• Achievement 12- Family Outdoor Adventures d. Attend an outdoor event with your Family e. Plan your outdoor family day.
• Elective 9- Art (Fine Art exhibit or photography exhibit) b. Visit an art museum or picture gallery with your den or family.
• Elective 16- Farm Animals b. Name and describe six breeds of farm animals and tell their common uses. d. With your family or den, visit a livestock exhibit at a county or state fair.

Webelos Scout Book

• Family Member- Community Group # 8- Tell what your family does for fun. Make a list and do one of them with a member of your family.
• Traveler- Mental Skills Group# 3- With the help of a parent, guardian, teacher, or librarian, use a map site on the internet to plan a trip from your home to a nearby place of interest. # 6- List four nearby trips you would like to take with your parents or guardian, lay out the trips on a map. # 8- Check the first aid kit in the family car.

Check Daily Schedule for details

The Family Fun Contests will be held on the Family Playhouse Stage located on the West end of the Fairpark. Registration: 6:00 pm - Contest: 6:30 pm

PRCA Rodeo

The Rodeo is free with paid gate admission.See some of the worlds finest cowboys and cowgirls compete for not only the prize money but the braggin' rights.The Utah State Fair PRCA Rodeo provides four night of extreme action in six exciting events. We haven't forgotten the pint sized cowboys and cowgirls either. All kids daring enough to participate in the wild and "woolly" Mutton Bustin' and are less than 50 lbs, can sign up at the Rodeo Committee Trailer behind the chutes between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm each night of the rodeo (September 4-7, 2008). Ten riders and several alternates names will be drawn at random for each night's performance.

Wear your uniform and get $1.00 off gate admission price for scouts and leaders.

Pick up your coupon at the Fairpark Administration Office prior to purchasing your gate admission tickets. Offer is not good toward Discount tickets!

For more information call (801) 538-8400.

The award winning agriculture program "Little Hands on the Farm" is returning to the 2008 Utah State Fair. Exhibit Hours: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

The exhibit will be one of the highlights of the Fair this year, and for years to come. Children will begin to understand the agriculture connection from the farm to the grocery store as they become the "Little handson the Farm."

Start Barn
At the Start Barn, you begin your "visit" to the farm. Put on your apron, grab a basket, we have many products to "harvest".

Grain Bin
Our first stop is the real grain silo. Scoop up some feed for the animals. Put it in your basket and head for the Chicken Coop.

Chicken Coop
Here you must gather an egg. Make sure to put it in your basket. Follow the path out to the Apple Orchard.

Apple Orchard
Pick an apple from the tree and put it in your basket. Head over to the Garden.

Garden
Here you can "plant" a seed on one side and "dig" up a vegetable on the other. Make sure to keep that veggie in your basket.

Tractor Shed
So much work to be done in the Tractor Shed! Start by fueling up your tractor. Then load up the front loader of your tractor with a straw bale. Drive it on over to the Sheep barn.

Sheep Barn
Here you can groom the sheep. Don't forget to take a piece of wool for your basket. Head on over to the Dairy barn, the cows need to be fed and milked.

Dairy Barn
Take the feed that you scooped up in the grain silo and put it into the cow's feed trough. Then take a turn and milk the cow. On your way to the Farmers Market, grab a carton of milk and add it to your basket.

Farmers Market
At the Farmers Market you can drop off each item that you harvested on your visit to the farm. Place each item into separately marked bins. Then return your basket. The store clerk will buy your harvest items for Little Hands on the Farm "Money". Now head over to the Grocery Store and spend your earnings.

Grocery Store
Here you can purchase a real agricultural product. We hope that you begin to understand the connection to agriculture from the farm to the grocery store.

We hope you enjoy your adventure on the Farm!

The school with the most entries wins $100!

STUDENT COMPETITION INFORMATION

Attendance Requirements:
Students must attend the Fair to obtain information for the Essay Competition.
Students do not need to attend the Fair to enter the Blue Ribbon Competition.

Eligibility:
Competitions are open to all students in the Kindergarten through Sixth Grade.
Students may enter with their class or on their own.

Entry Form:
Entry Form must be affixed to the back - not front - of entries or all information

requested must be typed or legibly printed on the back of entries.
Entries without all information on the back will be disqualified.
An Entry Form and Blue Ribbon Form are attached and may be copied as needed.

Deadline:
Entries must be postmarked or hand delivered on or before 4:00 pm ~

Friday, October 3, 2008.
No late entries will be accepted.
No exceptions.

Notification of Winners:

Winners will be notified by mail at their home address.
Teachers with student winners will be notified at the school address with name of winners.

Student Awards:
Winners will receive an Award Certificate & Ribbon from the Utah State Fair, plus door prizes provided by our sponsors. Awards will go to First through Third Place and two Honorable Mentions in each grade for each competition.

School Award:
The school with the most accumulative entries wins $100 to be used for their school library! Winning school's principal will be notified.

Award Ceremony:
Awards will be presented at the seventh annual Student Competition Award Ceremony on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at the Fairpark. Awards will be mailed to winners not present.

STUDENT COMPETITION RULES
Please read carefully and follow all rules.

Essay Competition:
Student must attend the Fair to obtain information

Kindergarten - Third Grades:
On 8 1/2" x 11" white paper ~ draw and color a picture of your fun learning experience at the Fair.
Remember to use one experience.
On the front of your picture write, or have an adult write, one sentence explaining why this was a fun learning experience.
Pictures without text will be disqualified.

Fourth - Sixth Grades:
Write an essay - no longer than one page - one side - about your favorite experience at the Fair, and why. Try to focus on one particular experience.

Entries will be judged on grade level and will be based on student's focus on one experience and detail of why they chose that experience.

Blue Ribbon Contest:
Fair attendance is not required for this competition

Kindergarten - Third Grades:
Imagine you have won a blue ribbon. Draw and color a picture of what you did to win it. Then write, or have an adult write, one sentence explaining the activity or project you completed to win the Blue Ribbon.
Pictures without text will be disqualified.
Please use the form that is provided.

Fourth - Sixth Grades:
Imagine you have won a blue ribbon. Draw a picture of what you did to win it. Then write a short story explaining the activity or project you completed to win the Blue Ribbon.
Stories without drawings will be disqualified.
Please use the form that is provided.

Entries will be judged on grade level and will be based on student's creative thinking.

If you would like to participate in the Student Competitions:
Essay Competition Entry Form (PDF File)

Blue Ribbon Entry Form (PDF File)