Two Berks County 4-H members have been selected to serve as Pennsylvania State Project Ambassadors, joining a statewide team of young leaders who will help shape future programming and provide input on educational initiatives.<\/p>\n
Margaret Haan and Dakota Deeter were among the 25 youth recently inducted into the ambassador program, which is administered by Penn State Extension. The new ambassadors officially began their one-year terms on October 10 during the Pennsylvania 4-H State Leadership Conference, Junior.<\/p>\n
Haan was selected as an Expressive Arts Ambassador. She participates in dog and leadership projects through 4-H, plays the harp, and hopes to become a professor in the future.<\/p>\n
Deeter was named a Shooting Sports and Camping Ambassador. Her 4-H involvement focuses on air rifle, and she also plays the flute, piccolo, and baritone saxophone. She plans to attend college to study geology and hopes to continue volunteering with the 4-H program.<\/p>\n
The State Project Ambassador program is designed to give young people a voice in the development of statewide 4-H activities and educational opportunities. Ambassadors work alongside mentors who oversee specific project areas, offering feedback as staff organize events, develop curricula, and introduce new programming.<\/p>\n
Each project area can have up to four ambassadors, allowing participants to contribute ideas and help identify opportunities to engage additional youth. Ambassadors serve one-year terms and may apply to continue for an additional year.<\/p>\n
\u201cState Project Ambassadors take part in three pillars: youth voice, leadership growth and enhancing their sparks,\u201d said Jeanette Stackhouse, 4-H education specialist for leadership and civic engagement. \u201cWe give them opportunities to be the voice of their peers as we are creating new initiatives within 4-H. A new curriculum is great but doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s not something our 4-H audience finds exciting, useful or relevant, and our ambassadors help us understand current youth needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to expressive arts and shooting sports, the statewide ambassador team represents healthy living, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), leadership and civic engagement, environmental science, and animal science.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania 4-H is a youth development program administered by Penn State Extension as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s national 4-H initiative. The program provides educational opportunities intended to help young people develop practical skills, leadership abilities, and connections within their communities.<\/p>\n
More information about Pennsylvania 4-H and local opportunities is available at https:\/\/extension.psu.edu\/programs\/4-H\u2060.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Berks County 4-H members have been selected to serve as Pennsylvania State Project Ambassadors, joining a statewide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-314917","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\/314917","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=314917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}