Wise County 4-H takes home many awards at the State 4-H Roundup

 “We Came, We Learned Things and We CONQUERED!”

DECATUR, TX— As the summer season has begun to unfold, students are finding themselves in summer camps and programs all across the state of Texas. This is especially true of students in the Wise County 4-H program. Offering camp experiences in some form nearly every week, 4-H students are kept busy learning leaderships skills in public speaking, parliamentary procedure, nutrition and many other program areas offered by the 4-H program in Wise County.

In June, the 4-H program sent thirty-six students to the Texas 4-H State Roundup in College Station, TX. Of those students, twenty-two qualified to compete in completions such as livestock judging, consumer decision making and food challenge to name a few. Also, Wise County 4-H students received scholarships of various amounts totaling $76,000.

Caitlin Pruett, Morgan Barnes, Remington Swensson and Mikayla Martinets were all awarded $18,000 scholarships sponsored by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Logan Moore received a $1,500 scholarship that was sponsored by the Association of 4-H Extension Agents and another $1,500 scholarship from the McLean Estate. Also receiving a scholarship, Clayton Egle was awarded $1,000 sponsored by San Antonio Livestock Exposition School Tours. Congratulations to our scholarship winners!

Our 4-H’ers that competed in various competitions also did very well. Competing in the Dairy division of the Food Show, Lauryn Luttrull was awarded 3^rd Place Individual.

 At the Invitational Meats Judging competition, team members Sheridan Shallene, Logan Moore, Michaela Martin and Kooper Martin were awarded 1^st place.

 In the Physics division of the Science, Engineering and Technology competition, Shelby Vanover won 2^nd place for his presentation.

The Consumer Decision Making team, Logan Moore, Caitlin Pruett, Morgan Barnes and Lyndi Luttrull won 3^rd place overall, and individually, Moran Barnes was 9^th place high point individual out of 117 competitors!

 The Main Dish - Food Challenge team, Jordan Hayes, Veronica Walton and Cristian Giddens won 3^rd Place overall.

In photography, Micaela Guess received Best in Show for her entry in the Dominant Color Category.

There were many other competitions that 4-H members competed in at Roundup. Competing in the Invitational Ag Product ID Contest was Morgan Barnes, Makayla Fitzgerald, Brittney Bland, Veronica Walton, and Kyah Shannon. Veronica Walton also competed in the invitational Archery contest.

The photography contests included entries from Brittney Bland, Christy Gerlach, Micaela Guess, Kelsi McKelvin, Shelby Vanover and Brady Vanover.

The 4-H Fashion Show had entries from Lyndi Luttrull, Fallon Sachse and Lauryn Luttrull.

Michael Williams, Brittany Bland, Michael Hicks, Kyle Barnett and Kyah Shannon competed in the Mohair competition.

The Livestock Judging Team was made up of Seth Byers, Thaine Laaser, Sheridan Shallene and Carson Read. Byers, Laaser and Read also competed in the Swine Skill-a-thon.

In the Invitational Livestock competition, there were seven Wise County Competitors: Michael Hicks, Kyah Shannon, Clint Demmit, Michael Williams, Kaylyn Shallene, Cassady Craddock, and Bryson Morrow.

Lastly, Sheridan Shallene, Michaela Martin, Kooper Martin and Logan Moore competed in the invitational Meats Judging Competition.

Congratulations to all of the scholarship and award winners, as well as, all the participants at Roundup! We are proud of all of our 4-H’ers!

For information on 4-H, contact the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office in Wise County at (940) 627-3341. The Wise County 4-H program includes students from chapters in the Texas towns of Alvord, Bridgeport, Boyd, Chico, Decatur, Paradise, Slidell and Greenwood.