Alison George
Hilltop Climbers 4-H Club
4-H Youth Leadership Scholarship
$500 Scholarship
One outstanding 4-H leadership experience for me was when I had the opportunity of being chosen as one of four 4-H members throughout Wisconsin to travel to Washington D.C. in March 2023 to be part of a beef ambassador team for a program called 4-H Ignite. The beef ambassador team also helped inspire ideas for the annual showmanship clinic I have held at my family’s farm before the fair to teach other youth who are passionate about need and other livestock species the things I have learned about showmanship. I love to share my passion with others. The 4-H Ignite experience also led to meeting many lifelong 4-H friends and connections throughout the nation. I was honored to be recognized as a leader for the national program.
Cecelia Dittrich
Golden Hornets 4-H Club
4-H Project Work Scholarship
$250 Scholarship
My most significant 4-H project is dairy. My dairy experience is a 4-H project that continues throughout my enrollment as a 4-H member. Since I have started, I have expanded my knowledge and began to pick out my animals on the farm. In high school, I started to focus on teaching and encouraging more kids to start their 4-H dairy projects. I assisted in putting on a showmanship clinic for youth at our farm in 2023. Here we discussed what it takes to prepare your animals before the show. This included washing and clipping along with animal health and care. We also worked on proper showing techniques. How you hold the halter properly and groom and prepare your animal in the ring.
Finley Noll
Clove 4-H Club
4-H Project Work Scholarship
$500 Scholarship
The 4-H dairy project for me is one of the most important because I can constantly work on making my animals better and learning new strategies to show. I want to be a leader to younger 4-H members. I will do this by doing exactly what my mentors did for me. I will help others get their animals ready and make sure they are prepared for when they are talking to the judges. I have grown extremely as a result of the project. This has taught me multiple life lessons. It has raised me to understand har work and determination. I also better understand the importance of time management and how to prioritize and plan.
Miriam Sandberg
Lucky 16 4-H Club
4-H Service Learning Scholarship
$500 Scholarship
I have taken great interest in learning to understand food insecurity in my community, and have consequently learned a lot about hunger and its effect on children’s brains and bodies. With my newfound knowledge about food insecurity and how hunger affects students, I decided I wanted to be more involved in the issue. I know that my community has a high poverty rate. However, I don’t think Mondovi’s middle and high school students have an easy opportunity to receive assistance for food. My mom has been thinking about starting a food pantry for Mondovi’s middle and high school students, and together we decided that now was the perfect time. We are working on placing our first order, readying the space, gathering volunteers, creating procedures, and having our grand opening on November 21st. I know that food insecurity
