Rabun 4-H’ers compete at Rock Eagle

Two of our Rabun County 4-H’ers journeyed to Rock Eagle 4-H Center for the first face-to-face District Project Achievement in two years on March 4-6.

In Project Achievement, students choose a project area of interest, research the topic, and write and present a presentation. 4-H’ers develop leadership, creativity, public speaking, record keeping, and other skills.

As students become older, a record keeping component that promotes independent thinking, research and implementation is added. Cloverleaf and Junior 4-H’ers (fifth–eighth graders), begin competition in their school or county and advance to the district level.

Senior competitions (ninth-12th grade) encourage youth to become more involved in their project areas and advance to the state and national levels.

There were a total of 324 competitors. One of the top projects for Junior 4-H’ers was Environmental Science, which had a total of five competitors.

First place was awarded to Rabun County’s Peyton Hicks. His subject was how the loss of farmland is affecting our environment.

One of the top categories for Senior 4-H’ers was Public Speaking, with 10 competitors. But that didn’t stop Rabun’s own Carson Carpenter from winning first place and winning a spot to compete in July at the State competition known as State Congress. Carson’s topic was Patriotism. “We are proud of these two young men as they continue to show Georgia 4-H the Wildcat way,” said Rabun County 4-H Educator Joey Eller.

The pair was accompanied by Eller.