Success Story4-H Aerospace Camp Offers Opportunity for Career Exploration



4-H Aerospace Camp Offers Opportunity for Career Exploration

Author: Rhonda Jewell

Planning Unit: Caldwell County CES

Major Program: Science, Engineering and Technology 4-H Core Curriculum

Plan of Work: Science, Engineering & Technology Education for Tomorrows Leaders

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

The KY 4-H Program offers many opportunities for youth ages 9-18 to learn new things, meet new people, and develop essential skills that they will continue to use throughout life.   Participation in 4-H programs can also open many doors for youth that they may not have had otherwise. Many young people don’t see the value in 4-H and miss out on some wonderful learning experiences.  Every now and then, there is a 4-H’er that takes every opportunity to participate in activities, or they are encouraged by their parents to so.  Over the past nine years there has been one young man in Caldwell County that has participated in various 4-H events and activities and he will be the first to say that his mother “made him do it”, but he is forever grateful to her.  He now sees the difference 4-H has made in his life. Of all the 4-H events and activities he participated in none had as much impact as 4-H Aerospace Camp.  He attended for the first time in 6th grade and was hooked. He participated every year following until he was a high school senior, earning flight hours along the way.  This opportunity sparked a passion and a dream of becoming pilot. He now attends college at Eastern Kentucky University and is in the flight program where he will graduate with his commercial pilot license.  This young man never realized that while he was having fun, meeting new people and learning new things that he was also choosing a career path






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