Speaking of County Activity Day...

 

 Today was a big day for many reasons.  First, it was County Activity Day, our first big competition of the year.  It is also our first back to normal, face to face, competition since COVID.  That is extremely significant because the last in person face to face program we had in 2020 was...CAD.  So you can see why having our 4-H CAD was such a big deal this year.

  Although the number of competitors was small this year we had 100% of those registered attend the event and our judges were so very proud of them.  Let's start with our cloverbuds and work our way up.  Our cloverbuds are our 5-7 year olds who take part but are not in competition.  Leading off the day was the Dirty Rascals Jr. Master Gardener 4-H Club member Thomas Underwood.  Thomas gave us the ins and outs of playing Sudoku.  One of our judges said they were very impressed, and they still can't quite manage the game on their own but might illicit Thomas for instruction.

After Thomas we jumped to our  11-13 year juniors.  Competing from the Inspirational Youth Leaders Club was Camri McKinnon.  Camri will be in the open division with her presentation on Inner Beauty vs. Outer Beauty.  Our judges felt like Camri gave a presentation with fabulous examples, arguments, and was mature and wise beyond her years.

  Camri lead us into our senior division where we had three competitors.  Brooke Canady and Maggie Underwood with the Dirty Rascals Jr. Master Gardeners and Jada McKinnon with the Inspirational Youth Leaders.  

  Brooke gave a speech on the importance of art education.  Being a skilled artist the judges could tell that this topic was close to her heart.  

  Maggie gave a presentation on making your own video game.  This is a presentation that she revised from two years ago and made the judges gamers.  They were very excited to learn more about this topic.  

  Jada competed in Turkey Char-grill.  She made some wonderful turkey burgers for the judge and group on hand.  Due to weather we were forced inside for her cooking, but she handled it like a champ.  After cooking she gave a presentation on the importance of turkey in our diets and to North Carolina Agriculture.

  All of our competitors earned a first place in their age divisions and everyone will have a chance to move forward to district.  To see all the photos from this day please click on this link.  Congratulations to everyone and we can't wait to see what you do at District which is June 24 in Lenior County.