Success StoryEarning the Gold



Earning the Gold

Author: Charles Comer

Planning Unit: Montgomery County CES

Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming

Plan of Work: Leadership & Volunteer Development

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

The 4-H program has a long history of emphasizing record-keeping allowing youth to reflect on the importance of their accomplishments and the life skills gained through their experiences. Record-keeping allows young people to track their activities, events, profits and losses, growth, skill development, learning experiences and ultimately determine if their goals were met. The ultimate goal of goals is to be selected among the best-of-the-best in 4-H statewide earning either state Bronze, Silver, Gold or Emerald honors. This year, nineteen youth completed achievement forms. Three received Clover level 1 honors; three received Clover level 2 honors; two received state Bronze honors; and one received state Silver honors.  Three more vied for state Gold honors with two being selected among the select Top 30 youth in Kentucky earning the Gold honor. For these two Gold recipients, it was ten years of goals and opportunities realized that led to this moment and this honor.  It is their story of achievement. It is a story of gaining skills along the way that will be used throughout their lifetime summarized in their 4-H Achievement Report form that depicts a person who has grown, matured, and developed the capacity to care, to relate, to give, to work, to think, to manage, to live and to be. Has 4-H helped them? One recipient stated it simply this way, “4-H encouraged me do my best even if I might fail…4-H is always making the best better!” 







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