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County Impact Statements - Lonoke County
4-H Program Provides Opportunities for Youth
4-H youth development education creates an environment for youth from all
parts of the county to reach their full potential. The Lonoke County 4-H program
provides:
• Provides formal and non-formal community - focus experimental learning.
• Develops skills that benefit youth throughout life.
• Fosters leadership and volunteerism in youth and adults.
• Builds internal and external youth/adult partnerships for programming and
funding.
• Strengthens families and communities.
• Uses research-based knowledge and the land-grant university system.
The Lonoke County Shooting Sports program is one of the areas in which county
youth participate. Shooting Sports opens doors to other 4-H educational
programs, such as Wildlife Habitat Evaluation program, Fishing Education, and
Managing Rice for Ducks.
4-ward Thinkers 4-H Club planting at the Magness Creek
Elementary School.
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Impacts
- Seven 4-H community clubs
- Conducted 120 school enrichment programs.
- State Rice for Ducks junior winner her first year in this project.
- State Rice for Ducks third place winner in senior division.
- Sixteen youth participate in State Shooting Sports competitions.
- Seventeen teen leaders participate in Excel program.
- Fifteen 4-H record books submitted; 8 district winners.
- Four adult volunteers received training in Sport Fish Education in
addition to receiving a $500 grant from the Arkansas Game and Fish
Commission.
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