Many instances have brought to light the common issue of 4-H losing touch with youth during their middle school transitional years.  4-Hers are commonly active, or peak 4-Hers during their 4th-6th grade years where their involvement includes classroom clubs.  As students enter middle school, their 4-H involvement lessens as many additional extracurricular activities are introduced, and monthly 4-H clubs are no longer in the classroom. This such issue was identified as a problem in district 7 and three agents: Kelsey Chadwick, Ginny Harper, and Mackenzie Pogue planned to increase middle school 4-H involvement by implementing Stuck in the Middle at 4-H Camp.  This leadership retreat focuses on the 7 core areas of KY 4-H: Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, Health, and Expressive Arts, Leadership, Natural Resources, and Science, Engineering and Technology. In addition to these areas, 4-Hers learn leadership through teambuilding activities, and build caring relationships with the youth and adults attending the retreat. Stretched from across district 7, 68 middle school 4-Hers ranging in grade 6-8^th attended this middle school retreat held at West KY 4-H Camp.  After participating in Stuck in the Middle, 4-Hers noted they will: be a better leader, join a club, come back next year, come to summer camp, do more 4-H, apply for achievement/cloverlevels. After attending Stuck in the Middle, 49 of the participants said they have not applied for cloverlevels/achievement, 18 of whom said they now will. 59 participants said they made a new friend, 21 had never attended 4-H camp before, and 38 said they will attend camp this summer. Stuck in the Middle has become an annual fall leadership retreated focused specifically for middle school aged students.