UGA Cooperative Extension: Georgia 4-H

Jekyll Island 4-H Center:
Environmental Education

Before departure please return folders along with completed evals (use staff names - mapboard if you need help - our only source of feedback) and your keys to your lead staff. $5 for each lost key.

Please be responsible for your student at all times (classes, meals, and free time).
NO SWIMMING AT ANYTIME (free time or otherwise, student or adult)!
During classes, please assist instructors with discipline problems that arise.
Feel free to ask questions, but please do not answer questions posed to students.

Manager lives off-site, but one of the two lead staff are "on call" for emergencies.
In case of minor injuries, we have first aid materials. Students must be accompanied by adults who will administer the supplies. See staff for assistance if necessary.
IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY, DIAL 911 FROM ANY PHONE (phones located in suites, offices, dining hall). If the situation needs and ambulance, call first, then find a Jekyll employee.
In case of a fire alarm, please move all students from the building and congregate at the flagpoles by the dining hall.

We go rain or shine! Please help make sure students are prepared.
In cases of lightning only, we'll have arrangements to bring classes indoors.
Classes can be fun in the rain, remember the students will get their attitudes from us.

The bell rings a couple of minutes before class. Be at meeting spots on time.
Shirts and shoes must be worn AT ALL TIMES. NO FLIP-FLOPS outside of rooms.
Boots are available for marsh, please clean and return to shelf after each class.
Please refrain from smoking during classes. Designated area on other side of 300 building.
Please do not use cell phones during class, place on silence or vibrate mode.

K.P. duty is 15 minutes before b-fast and 30 minutes before lunch and dinner.
No bell rings for K.P., so please help make sure students are on time and remain until dismissed.
There will be signs on your tables in the dining hall. Will need to fill in every chair.
Please pay attention to your meal order. We will line you up according to your order for that meal, so please come as an entire school.
Students should line up as a school outside dining hall and wait on Jekyll staff to let them in.

No Jekyll staff will meet you for these classes, they are led totally on your own.
Remember your transportation may be required for some teacher leds.

Please always supervise students during free time.
Please stay off soccer fields, they do not belong to us, we have v-ball, b-ball, and 4-square and our own fields for your use.
Canteen opens 3 times a day, please supervise and help make sure trash and recycling occur.
Beach time only with adults: stay off dunes, keep distance from birds, collect only empty shells.

10 p.m. - 7 a.m. Lights out is at 10:30 p.m. out of respect for other groups and staff that lives on-site.
Rooms to be cleared and cleaned before b-fast on departing day - announcement made at last dinner.
Please help conserve energy by turning off lights and A/C or heat units before leaving dorm rooms.

Group announcements are made at dinner each evening. Please hold students in dining hall until announcements and listen for updates and/or directions.
At breakfast and lunch, you may dismiss students with adults as they finish.

Coffee is available at breakfast and sweet tea at lunch and dinner for ADULTS ONLY.
Coke & Diet Coke are sold in the canteen to ADULTS ONLY.