June 21, 2022
Congratulations to the award recipients from the 2022 SC Association of County Agricultural Agents (SCACAA) and SC Association of Extension 4-H Agents (SCAE4-HA) Joint Annual Meeting. The award categories include SCACAA Specialty and Service SCACAA Communications Awards SCAE4-HA Specialty and Service SCAE4-HA Communication Awards SCACAA Specialty and Service Certificate of Merit Justin Ballew Achievement Award […]
March 15, 2021
Mars Madness Continues… This past year has been quite an adventure with South Carolina 4-H’s Journey to Mars and National 4-H’s Mars Base Camp. This summer, we watched the Mars Perseverance Rover take off from the same launchpad that sent Apollo 11 to the moon. The rover was aptly named by students in Virginia that […]
October 26, 2020
Greenville County 4-H had their first meeting of the 4-H Forest Explorers Zoom Club. Twenty youth (ages 5-9) will meet via Zoom every Tuesday at 10 a.m. to explore the Clemson Experimental Forest with Patricia Whitener and Jaime Pohlman. Patricia streams live from the forest and Jaime manages the Zoom room and the technology side […]
September 28, 2020
The Child Care Expansion Project is a partnership between Nonprofit Alliance and Greenville County Schools. They are distributing CARES act funding to community partners (like 4-H) to provide enrichment programs to these childcare sites that are stepping up to fill the gap in childcare for kids not in school during alternate schedule days. Every Monday […]
August 31, 2020
While summer camps and programs were being canceled across the state, Extension Agents from ten counties in the Pee Dee Region teamed up this summer to offer families an at-home 4-H camp experience. The counties included Chesterfield (Amber Starnes) Clarendon (Mary Margaret McCaskill) Darlington (Kyla Szemplinski) Dillon/Marlboro (Elizabeth Snipes) Florence (Faith Truesdale), Lee (Cindy Welsh) […]
August 17, 2020
The Pinckney Leadership program has been busy despite COVID-19. Since March, the program has begun three different programs to address the needs of our youth. We are making sure that youth leaders have the tools and resources they need to adjust to the “new normal”. Fresh Fridays The “Fresh Fridays” were a time that the program dedicated […]
August 3, 2020
The Upstate Fishing Project launched in May with the intention of hosting in-person fishing days across the state this summer. As we all know, COVID-19 has kept us from being able to interact with our fifty-eight project members in person, but that has not stopped it from being a very successful project. Participants are receiving […]
July 27, 2020
The South Carolina 4-H Congress is held annually at Clemson University. This event brings youth together from across the state to learn, network, and celebrate a year of achievement. Due to COVID-19, Congress was moved to a virtual setting using Zoom, daily emails, and social media. This event was hosted by the South Carolina 4-H […]
June 29, 2020
Since March, South Carolina 4-H Agents and State Staff have shifted programs and events virtually. In July, SC 4-H hosted their first virtual horse camp for K-5 youth and there were sixty-four participants. An additional camp session will be offered July 27-31 for youth in sixth through twelfth grade. The participants met daily from 1- […]
June 15, 2020
4-H is an organization that prides itself on in-person and hands-on positive youth development activities led by caring adults. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, agents across the state have been faced with hosting school programs, club meetings, and summer camps without the in-person aspect. Many have turned to virtual options. In the beginning stages […]
