4-H and Smart Start What a Match

Were you at Biggs Park Mall on Saturday? If you weren't you were one of the few, and missed an incredible event. The Robeson County Partnership for Children puts together Smart Start Day to highlight the agencies in the county that can help families in the county. Smart Start works with families to that have children under the age of five to prepare them for school. Of course Robeson County 4-H works with youth between the ages of 5 and 18 years of age to prepare them to be successful adults in our ever changing global society. So can you imagine two organizations better suited to work together?

Smart Start day is an annual event which brings more than 20 agencies together for families to see the resources available to them. Robeson County 4-H is part of the event, and took the opportunity to do a little science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activity with the youth that attended the event. They also learned about recycling and ecology while we made plant people. Peggy and Allen Monk who were happening by jumped in to help us work with the youth to complete more than 100 plant people. We also had the chance to market our 4-H program and let the world know about all that our youth in this county can do. With more than 400 people attending this event it will be something that we do again and again.