County 4-H club receives awards

Nine 4-H clubs in Wyoming are receiving awards of $200 each, with the Mustangs club of Hot Springs County receiving two awards, for their efforts in community service and educational programming.

The Wyoming 4-H Foundation is sponsoring two awards developed by the State 4-H Program Office, said Sarah Torbert, state 4-H volunteer development specialist. Hands to Larger Service is based on quantity of service, diversity, innovation and participation and Head to Clearer Thinking on the quantity of programs and diversity, creativity, innovation and participation.

The award names are from the 4-H Pledge.

“Generosity and caring for others are important skills for young people to understand and master,” said Torbert. “The 4-H Pledge talks about using our hands to larger service for the local club, the community, the country and the world. We hope clubs spend time each month focusing on learning beyond monthly project work and hope these awards incentivize the clubs’ desire to do that.”

The Mustangs received their awards for Most Recorded Community Service and Most Educational. Additional club recipients are, with designation, club name and county:

Community Service (Hands to Larger Service)

Service Directed at Other Youth – Citizenship Club, Teton County

Community, Country and World Service – Wild Horse 4-H, Campbell County

Unique Service – Otto Flats, Big Horn County

Engaged in Community – Popo Agie Pistols, Fremont County

Educational (Head to Clearer Thinking)

Unique – Wind Country 4-H, Carbon County

Engaging in Leadership – Hillsdale Tiptoppers, Laramie County

Interactive – Green Clovers, Campbell County

Project Exploration – Wild Brumbies, Albany County

4-H teaches youths with informal, practical and learn-by-doing education. There are nearly 8,000 youths and about 1,550 adult volunteers in Wyoming. 4-H is the youth arm of University of Wyoming Extension, and its state offices are in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.

Achievement night

planned

Hot Springs County 4-H will be holding their annual Achievement night on Saturday, November 2.

The event will be at the fair building starting at 5 p.m.

4-H families should bring two side dishes per family along with your own plate and silverware.

Come out and support 4-H youth and their end of the year accomplishments in leadership and their project areas.