{"id":103183,"date":"2018-05-29T05:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=103183"},"modified":"2018-05-29T05:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:52:50","slug":"ohio-4-h-wins-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/ohio-4-h-wins-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio 4-H wins national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; For the second year in a row,\u00a0Ohio 4-H alumni and friends brought home the $20,000 first prize to their local 4-H programs in the National 4-H Council\u2019s Raise Your Hand competition. Ohio raised\u00a0nearly 18,000 hands through online voting.<\/p>\n<p>With all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., participating through online voting, Ohio 4-H finished in first place with 17,778 hands raised. Runners-up were Nebraska 4-H (14,115) in second place and Kansas 4-H (10,020) in third place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4-h-logo-cutout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"157\" \/>Ohio 4-H is the statewide youth development program of The Ohio State University\u2019s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said that the lyrics of \u2018Carmen, Ohio,\u2019 the alma mater of The Ohio State University, truly live within our community of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences,\u201d said Cathann A. Kress, OSU\u2019s vice president for agricultural administration and dean of CFAES. \u2018Time and change will surely show, how firm thy friendship\u2019 applies to our 4-H alumni and supporters as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider 4-H to be the first CFAES class youth can take &#8212; and am proud that Ohio<br \/>\n4-H once again will benefit due to the overwhelming support of our loyal community,\u201d Kress added. \u201cThank you all for your dedication and support of our 4-H youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s 2018 total &#8220;hands raised&#8221; eclipsed\u00a0last year\u2019s winning tally of 11,811 votes. Unlike last year, when Ohio led gate to wire, the Buckeyes found themselves neck and neck with Nebraska 4-H. Leading up to the last week of the 2018 contest, Nebraska had been ahead by 83 votes. In come-from-behind fashion, the Buckeyes doubled their hands raised in the last week to secure the $20,000 for hands-on learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p>4-H, the largest youth development program in the nation, called on alumni and friends to raise their hands to help bring 4-H to 10 million youth by 2025. Currently 4-H empowers nearly 6 million young people in every county across America, including 156,000 4-Hers in Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; For the second year in a row,\u00a0Ohio 4-H alumni and friends brought home the $20,000 first prize to their local 4-H programs in the National 4-H Council\u2019s Raise Your Hand competition. Ohio raised\u00a0nearly 18,000 hands through online voting. With all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., participating through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 17:53:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}