Indiana Hunter Education Association

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2026 4-H Shooting Sports Spring Workshop

Ross Camp, West Lafayette, Indiana – April 10-12, 2026

IEach year IDNR’s Hunter Education Program, in association with Purdue University, provides two training workshops for the 4-H Shooting Sports Program. This training is required to be a volunteer instructor in a county 4-H Shooting Sports Program.  Enrollment in the 2026 4-H Shooting Sports Workshop is now open.  Please use the link below to register now!

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2026 Indiana NASP State Tournament Volunteer Form

Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Indiana – March 21st, 2026

Come and enjoy the excitement of helping at the largest indoor archery tournament in Indiana!  Join Indiana NASP as thousands of students compete at this year’s Bullseye and 3D Tournaments.  Whether your a Indiana Hunter Educaiton Volunteer Instructor, a National Archery in the School Program BAI, or just a general volunteer, there are plenty of opprotunties to put on a nother fantastic tournament!  Please use the button below to register today!

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Hunter & Trapper Education Award Nomination Form

Awarded at The Pines Evergreen Room, Seymour, Indiana – October 10th, 2026

The Indiana Hunter Education Association, in partnership with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division, Outdoor Education Section sponsors the Indiana Volunteer Instructor, Indiana Teaching Team and Indiana Conservation Officer district recognition awards. This is an opportunity to show our appreciation to the men and women who go beyond what is required of them as Hunter and Trapper Education Instructors. The Association is very proud to sponsor this instructor recognition. The volunteer instructor, teaching team and Indiana Conservation Officer who are chosen from each district will be honored at the Indiana Hunter Education Association Banquet on Saturday, October 10th, 2026, at the Pines Evergreen Room in Seymour, IN.

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Upcoming Registrations

Listed below are tenative dates that we will posting signups, registrations, events, and other opprotunities.  Be sure to come back and find out whats coming up!

IHEA Work Weekend – February 6th, 2026

4-H Shooting Sports Spring Workshop – March 1st, 2026

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IHEA Outdoor Calendar

Stay up-to-date with all things outdoors with the Indiana Hunter Education Association’s Outdoor Calenar. This full color premium calendar is 21″ by 14″ and covers the months of September 2025 through August 2026! Each month you are presented with beatuiful artwork, Indiana hunting/trapping seasons, lunar phases, important dates, and much more. All proceeds support IHEA’s mission of making Indiana Hunter Education one of the premier programs in the United States!

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Mission Statement

…to promote hunter education by providing a medium for the exchange of views and experience; by fostering individual, federal-state, and state cooperation and coordination in mutual problems; by promoting the reciprocal recognition of properly educated hunters between districts of the state of Indiana; by cultivating characteristics of honesty, self-discipline, self-reliance, mutual consideration, essentials of good sportsmanship and good citizenship; by promoting programs to prevent hunter accidents; by upholding the image of hunting both as a legitimate tool of wildlife management and as a recreational sport throughout the state of Indiana and to carry out the effective presentation and dissemination of these purposes.

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Executive Committee

Mark Demske

President

Brent Headland

Vice-President

Robyn Woodruff

Treasurer / Membership Secretar

Stephen Spencer

Recording Secretary

Chris Clark

IDNR Law Enforcement Hunter Education Coordinator

chclark@dnr.in.gov

Tim Beck

IDNR Law Enforcement Hunter Education Coordinator

tbeck@dnr.in.gov

ICO Lt. Travis Stewart

IDNR Law Enforcement Outdoor Education Officer

tstewart@dnr.in.gov