“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 […]
4-H News
South Carolina 4-H Horse Program
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 […]
South Carolina Healthy Lifestyles Program Highlight
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 […]
Mars Base Camp
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 […]
YALL – Youth Academy of Livestock Learning
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 – Supporter Spotlight
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 […]
Cooking Like a Chef
This year our Cooking Like a Chef camps have been taken virtually. We provided each of the youth a kit with supplies, 10 individual lessons and the Cooking Like a Chef Manual. Each of the lessons had instruction on the skills needed for the lesson, a recipe, and a video to help them prepare this […]
Youth Livestock
The 4-H Livestock projects for 2020 have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost all of our traditional contests and shows have either been canceled or postponed indefinitely at this time. In an attempt to engage our youth we are planning a Virtual Livestock Learning Series to be kicked off in late August, early […]
Shooting Sports – Youth Highlight
Cassidy Hurst South Carolina 4-H State Teen Council President “My name is Cassidy Hurst, I am seventeen years old and going into my senior year of high school. I currently serve as President of the South Carolina 4-H State Teen Council. Shooting sports is one of the multiple 4-H projects I participate in, but I […]
Horse Program
Quarantine hasn’t stopped the South Carolina 4-H Horse Program. The program has been very busy hosting fourteen virtual contest/activities for youth and promoting even more opportunities for youth to stay active with their horse project while at home. Online contests have included virtual horse judging, online video contest, virtual state horse show, online hippology contest, […]
