Wayne County 4-H News

The Wayne County 4-H Leaders started a new scholarship program last fall to support post-secondary efforts of two Wayne County 4-H members. The 2020 recipients of this award include Ashlee Smith and Chase Smith of Prichard who have been extremely active in the Wayne County 4-H program. 

Both Ashlee and Chase will receive a $300 scholarship to support their post-secondary efforts, where Ashlee is a Junior at Marshall University and Chase will be a freshman at Marshall University this fall. For more information on the Wayne County 4-H program, please contact the WVU Extension Service Wayne County office at 304-272-6839. 

Our Virtual Energy Express is off to a great start. The program started on June 11 with training and preparations for the program. The program with children started June 22, where mentors prepared kits to deliver to parents - each kit was filled with activities and books for them to work on at home. 

Mentors are also serving at school feeding sites. Overall, there is a great energy and enthusiasm by our Energy Express mentors and site supervisors to bring creative reading programs and art activities into the homes of youth enrolled in this summer program!

Our Cloverbud Day Camp-at-home program was held June 16-19, 2020. Campers "traveled" to the San Diego Zoo each day, made a variety of crafts at home, listened to STEM lessons from our Ag Agent Evan Wilson and sang lots of songs! Many thanks to our families who joined us this past week.

Here are a few highlights from the week! Please contact our office at 304-272-6839 if you would like to know more about the Wayne county 4-H Program. 

4-H Younger Camp was held June 15 - 18, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. every afternoon for online activities, lessons and fun. We had 75 register for camp with approximately 40 joining us daily for our online activities. Chiefs and SAGs for Younger Camp included:

Cherokee

Today we wrapped up the last day of 4-H Older Camp-at-home. We were so thankful with all the engagement for our teens in the online and at-home activities. Youth did all kinds of challenges, learned about a variety of STEM activities, used their pedometers and counted their steps, watched a Flag Retirement ceremony, did lots of Kahoots, and so much more. Chiefs and SAGs for camp were as follows:

Cherokee

Grayson Smith, a Wayne County 4-H member received her 4-H Charting Pin on Thursday June 25, 2020 as part of the 4-H Older Camp-at-home experience this year. Her 4-H Charting experience was not conducted at 4-H camp as is the tradition, but Grayson got to experience all the activities and met the requirements with flying colors. Grayson is a 2020 graduate of Wayne High School and the daughter of Jesse and Cathy Smith of Wayne. Congratulations Grayson on a job well done!

Wayne County 4-H Camp-at-home experiences wrapped up on Friday June 26. 4-H Younger Camp and 4-H Older Camp both provide several full scholarships to deserving youth enrolled in our 4-H camp program. These scholarships are in honor of a variety of individuals who have supported the Wayne County 4-H program in various ways. Here is an overview of this year's award winners:

4-H Younger Camp
The Jon Irby First Year Camp Scholarship 
- Shamus Tucker
- Zelda McKenna

June 15, 2020;

Dear Community and Friends,

The Wayne County 4-H Program will be con ducting a 4-H Camp-at-Home experience this month. We are planning an exciting variety of online activities as well as “work at your own pace” activities you can do at home that will be contained in a 4-H Camp Kit. The 4-H Camp Kit will include a t-shirt, 4-H swag, crafts and other supplies as well as a camp program booklet which will provide online information, the online schedule as well as detailed instructions for all the “work at your own pace” activities.  Here is a recap of the 4-H Camp dates and times:

Our office is taking a moment to remember our graduating seniors. This is especially important in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and that our seniors did not get to experience their final year in high school the way they would have liked to. Please help us congratulate these seniors. For more information on the Wayne County 4-H program, please contact our office at 304-272-6839.

Information about each senior is found underneath their photo.