Is 4-H the middle school aged audience is a very underserved audience. We spend a lot of time and energy developing and implementing programs for 4^th and 5^th grads with the hope that the students will join other programs in our county 4-H program. With in the 4^th and 5^th grade we have a once-a-month club meeting in all classrooms, as well as send all 4^th graders to North Central 4-H Camp for Environmental Education (EE) Camp. In high school youth can attend several leadership conferences, be competitive with the Achievement program, and attend camp as camp counselors. There are opportunities often missed with the middle school ages and so I have worked to develop relationships with the middle school Family Resources Coordinators to develop an afterschool program. I have had one in one of the schools during the last program year. This program met afterschool twice a month with a focus on science and leadership. The youth met to discuss and vote on projects, marketing materials, and activities. The second meeting a month was a service project meeting, this is where the club would focus on their service project. Their project was helping with school cleanup, and so they would help pick up and empty trash cans. This is how two of the three school afterschool programs will be set up. The third school Georgetown Middle (GMS) will be a Jr. MANERS club. GMS is an urban middle school and after discussing the needs of the school with the FRC contact it was clear that the Jr. MANERS program would fit perfectly with their needs. At this time, there is a first meeting scheduled for all locations, marketing flyers have been sent out and agendas made. This success story is to share the success I have had with getting to this point. It has been a challenge to find a teacher willing to stay afterschool to sponsor the club. The school systems require a teacher to be the point of contact for all programs meeting afterschool at the school. Therefore, I have had to recruit teachers for all locations. This was the hardest task but have found wonderful teachers excited to work with 4-H. The hope is that these clubs will help bring in more members and increase our teen programs as well as increase our pool of junior counselors for summer camp  in the years to come.