My daughters have been really, really active in 4-H and FFA at the county, area, and state level. There is no better training program for young people than these two organizations if they are led properly. We have an excellent Extension Director and he does everything he can to get kids involved in something they are interested in. If they like cattle, goats, woodworking,needlepoint, vegetables, or whatever he just finds a way for them to succeed. At the Iowa 4-H Conference the last several years we have recieved the award for the most kids taking part. In fact, there are 99 counties in Iowa and two years ago we had 105 kids out of the 1100 from the whole state. I'm a former school board member(12 years)and I'm very proud to report that our school has to sometimes schedule around the 4-H calendar or they won't have enough students or parents for their activities.
I'm proud of you young people for being involved in 4-H. Challenge your peers to be involved and recruit adults who are good mentors to teach you about their individual skills.
If you'd like to see a clip of my eldest daughter's TV clip for last year's State Fair look up IPTV.org, look for the Iowa State Fair collection, and then scroll down to the 4-H State Fair Prep winner program. Her name is Allix and she is featured with her Shorthorn heifer"Spice". You'll even get to see her old greybeard dad and hear about our County Beef Team!!
Good luck in your 4-H experiences. Work hard and be a good partner to the other 4-Hrs. You'll realize later just how much you really learned while you were involved!!