Pennsylvania 4-H has inducted a new team of State Project Ambassadors (SPAs), and one Berks County teen is among those selected to bring youth perspectives into the statewide program.<\/p>\n
The group officially began its one-year term on Oct. 18 during the organization\u2019s State Leadership Conference, Junior, hosted by Penn State Extension. The ambassador program allows young people to share their insights as statewide 4-H staff develop events, curricula, and programming.<\/p>\n
Representing Berks County this year is Maggie Haan, who was selected as a Leadership and Civic Engagement Ambassador. Haan participates in dog club and public speaking activities through 4-H. She said she hopes to inspire others by showing them how to use their voices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want people to learn how to share their voices with the world,\u201d Haan said.<\/p>\n
According to 4-H education specialist Jeanette Stackhouse, the SPA program emphasizes three key areas: youth voice, leadership growth, and nurturing participants\u2019 passions. \u201cAs an ambassador of a particular project area, they likely have a great passion for what they are learning with ambitions of going into a related career,\u201d Stackhouse said.<\/p>\n
Each ambassador works with a mentor in their project area and may also be introduced to industry or networking opportunities. A maximum of four ambassadors are selected per project area, and students may reapply to continue serving in future years.<\/p>\n
Administered in Pennsylvania by Penn State Extension, 4-H is the youth development program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, helping young people gain knowledge and skills to become capable, caring, and contributing citizens.<\/p>\n
For more information about local programs, visit the Pennsylvania 4-H website at extension.psu.edu\/programs\/4-H\ufffc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania 4-H has inducted a new team of State Project Ambassadors (SPAs), and one Berks County teen is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-20005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}