Being in school and having ADHD ws very hard form me. I didn't make friends. They mostly picked on me until my senior year. But with being in 4-H helped me so much with having friends and doing things with them.The adults and kids have been nice to me.

4-H helped me be involved with things and it was great to get certificates and awards for being involved. They helped me to feel so good about myself.I have gotten to do many things for comunity service from collecting food, cleaning the side of a road, giving nursing home Christmas Partys, and many more. Getting thankyous and smiles for doing some of them made me feel very good.

As I have been in Early Childhood Education, a day care at school for two years, 4-H has helped me do a portfolio of my experiences at the Daycare. (This is her career goal)

I got the chance of being President of two 4-H clubs one year. That was great and I got to make some decisions on things. I got to pick a few crafts and plan to show how to make them. It was fun learning how to be a leader.

Bear Hill 4-H camp is the gest camp for me...This year I get to be a camp Counselor myself. That is the most exciting thing for me. It isn't as hard as I thought it was. All the other counselors are getting along with me and the kids are loving me.

I really like the 4-H Fair helping out with the Townline Club booth and then the teen BBQ dinner. I do think the judges have been a bit hard on me. I am not a good painter and when I had a project that I painted they always left comments to do better. I did the best I could, and I really tried so hard to get a few special ribbons, but only got one.

4-H has helped me in so many ways. It is fun and I learned a lot. All in all 4-H has been a great experience. 17 yrs old. 

I have been in 4-H for seven years. Four out of those seven years I showed animals including by dog, JR, and my horse, Kirby. Since then I've moved onto Creative Writing, Art, and Photography, for the most part, but I cannot forget the experience I have had showing my animals.

I have developed organizational skills, the ability to work with others, and most of all the ability to understand animals and people. It really helped me out as a person, getting a sense of responsibility at an early age with the animals I had.

After the death of my horse, Kirby, I knew I was finished showing horses, and at that point I had gone as far as I could with my dog JR. So I moved on, feeling that I should work at the thing's I have more talent in such as artwork, poetry, and my music. I've been writing my own songs lately and playing guitar, and I've been getting better with my artistic skills. I have grown in so many ways thanks to 4-H. 15 years old

When I first started Public Speaking, I thought it as an embarrassment. But this year I think of it as a helpful resource in life's journey to my goals. Public Speaking has given me a bigger vocabulary in my sentences and a more confident self in my speeches in my school classes. In the next four years I have left in 4-H I will hope to stay in Pubic Speaking and learn more useful life skills.

Out of all the 4-H programs I have done dog training has been my favorite even though both of my dogs have died before the fair, I have had a good experience training some of the hardest dogs I have ever seen at the fairs. I have learned a lot from my leaders, but my dogs have taught me strength, confidence, patience, concentration, and how to think ahead of the opposite opponent. ... Training dogs has shown me what I hope to do when I get older. Hopefully the dog I might get next spring will teach me more life skills. I hope I keep training dogs even though I only have four more years in 4-H. 11 years old 

My daughter is in her 1st year of college and is making straight A's. 4-H helped her develop leadership and the self confidence that she needed to be successful in life.