Month: November 2020

Each year the champion high overall (HOA) shotgun athletes in each division are recognized at the final state shoot of the season. Typically this is done in the spring, but due to COVID postponements and cancellations, this year’s 2019/2020 4-H Shotgun champions were recently recognized based on scores previously posted before the pandemic. We have […]

“Youth today are leaders of tomorrow.” At the close of this 4-H year, the Pinckney Leadership Program issued nine recurring scholarships to 4-H Pinckney Leadership graduates who are currently pursuing degrees in higher education. To keep the scholarship students must maintain leadership involvement and maintain at least a 2.5 GPA. Those recipients are Morgan McManus […]

The South Carolina Horse Program has kicked off a new online series called Talking Horses Tuesday. Starting this past September, the program occurs monthly through the end of January. Senior 4-H members, youth ages 14-18, can participate in an online panel discussion. Panelists are professionals in the horse industry and were selected due to their knowledge of […]

Last summer’s 4-H Kids Cooking Like a Chef Camps provided many positive experiences for 143 youth from 8 counties. In early June, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was determined that face to face camps were not the best option. Therefore, we moved our camps to a virtual platform and found many unexpected benefits. To do this, our […]

There has been a lot of Mars-themed excitement this year surrounding the historic launch of the 2020 Mars Mission taking the new Rover Perseverance to the planet Mars, which is expected to land in February 2021! South Carolina 4-H launched its own adventure with Journey to Mars, but the Mars craze is not limited to our state alone! The 2020 […]

2020 has been a challenging year for our 4-H and youth programs. Our Youth Livestock programs across the state had to come up with creative and new ways to engage our members. The Youth Academy of Livestock Learning, YALL, was created by our Livestock Steering Committee to provide our 4-H livestock members across the state a way to continue their educational growth with […]

John W. “Bill” Riser A Lifetime Of Service To Others January 4,1934 – August 17, 2020 The late Bill Riser was a big man in both works and stature. He was born and raised in Bowman, South Carolina. He attended Clemson University on a basketball scholarship where he was a starter as a Junior and […]