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There are two ways to participate as a 4-H'er in North Carolina. You can be an enrolled member or you can be a program participant. The state has guide sheets for information about 4-H online.
Take a minute and edit your account to include all the topics in which your child is interested. Often community groups will contact me with a special interest mentoring offer. Right now the Lemon Springs ECA club wants to offer their skills to club members who may want to learn about web design, sewing, biscuit making, ect. When these opportunties present themselves I will search the members for folks who might be interested and contact you.

Bill Stone, the County Extension Director, wrote an article in 2016 reporting that our youth are out of touch with politics and government. Tufts University had reported after the 2012 presidential election, using data and feedback from over 6,000 young people and 720 high school civics teachers nationally that less than half of young Americans vote, and this includes presidential elections. There is good news from Tufts Circle report in April of this year. They are now reporting the 2020 voter turnout to be half of the nation’s youth population with North Carolina at 55%. It is good to see these numbers rising because

One of my favorite things about working with the 4-H Youth Development program is the opportunity I have to witness young people taking an active role in shaping their futures. Over the past two weeks, thirteen future leaders embarked on the eighth annual Lee County 4-H Young Commissioner leadership program where they learned about areas including: local and state government, economic development, job interview and career skills, business etiquette, community service, and public speaking… all the while enhancing their own