Yadkin County 4-H Achievement Night 2025: Finding Your Spark Through 4-H
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Collapse ▲Yadkin County 4-H Achievement Night 2025
Finding your Spark through 4-H
4-H Achievement Night is a 4-H event for our 4-H’ers to be recognized for their achievements throughout the year. This year’s theme was “Finding your Spark through 4-H.” This theme was chosen for our Achievement Night because it represents our program so well. Through 4-H, youth are able to find and kindle their sparks through the many activities we offer. That could be through animals, photography, leadership, art, and so much more. Those sparks and more are what we recognized on this night.
This night was led by Yadkin County 4-H Teen Council. Emmalyn Rogers presented the Pledge of Allegiance, Maylee Hudspeth gave the 4-H Pledge, and Leah Frick gave the thought of the night. Then we proceeded to our keynote speaker, Nathan Croyle, North Carolina State 4-H Council Present. Nathan shared about his humble beginnings in 4-H and encouraged our 4-H’ers to reach for big things in 4-H and beyond. After this portion of the meeting, the attendees got to partake in a dinner sponsored by Tank’s Plumbing LLC.
The next portion of our event consisted of our Talent Show where Bailey Poindexter was the emcee. We had five talent acts at this event that ranged from singing, to dancing, to playing instruments. First we had Gabriella Rogers singing “Only Hope” by Mandy Moore. Next we had Emmalyn Rogers perform a beautiful song on the mandolin. After this act we had Henley Poindexter singing Leanna Crawford’s song, “The Truth I’m Standing On.” Next we had Addi Kelly performing a lyrical dance routine to “Down to the River to Pray” by Alison Krauss. Lastly, Kyplee Kelly performed a breakdancing routine to the song, “Bad Wolf.” All acts were amazing and were enjoyed by our audience. Two were selected to go over to the district level. Emmalyn Rogers received first place and Gabriella Rogers with second place.
The next competition we had at this event was our Art Show. We had 36 entries and here are our winner:
8-11 Junior Drawing Division
- Kaydence Freeman 3rd Place
- Elise Rogers 2nd Place
- Henley Poindexter 1st Place and Grand Champion in this Age Division
8-11 Junior Painting Division
- I.M. 3rd Place
- Addi Kelly 2nd Place
- Lyla Matthews 1st Place
12-13 Junior Drawing Division
- Elias Plemmons 3rd Place
- Emmalyn Rogers 2nd Place
- Autumn Pendry 1st Place
12-13 Junior Painting Division
- Athena Danforth and Elias Plemmons 3rd Place
- Maylee Hudspeth 2nd Place
- Emmalyn Rogers 1st Place and Grand Champion in this Age Division
Senior Drawing Division
- Xia Plemmons 1st Place and Grand Champion in this Age Division
Senior Painting Division
- Xia Plemmons 2nd Place
- Bailey Poindexter 1st Place
Cloverbud Participants (non competitive)
- Kendall Freeman-Painting and Drawing
- Logan Hutchens-Painting and Drawing
- Ellis Johnson-Painting and Drawing
- Kyplee Kelly-Painting and Drawing
- Abbigail Mullis-Painting and Drawing
- Judah Plemmons-Painting
Next, we gave awards for those that completed 4-H Project Record Books or Portfolios. Which is where 4-H’ers complete a project and use record keeping to tell about their project along with the other things they have done in 4-H. This year, we received 32books this year. This is also done the year prior to submitting their project books (their work from January 1st, 2024-December 31st, 2024) The placements are as follows:
Cloverbuds (non competitive)
- Kendall Freeman-Birds 1, Egg Project, & Poultry
- Logan Hutchens-Birds 1
- Ellis Johnson-Bug Out 1
- Abbigail Mullis-Community Unity 1 & Oil Change
8-10 Age Division
Animal Science:
- 5th Place Lyla Matthews
- 4th Place Annie Lowder
- 3rd Place Kaydence Freeman
- 2nd Place Aliza Lowder
- 1st Place Henley Poindexter
Communication Arts
- 1st Place Lyla Matthews
Environmental Science
- 1st Place Lyla Matthews
Healthy Lifestyles
- 5th Place I.M.
- 4th Place Katherine Swaim
- 3rd Place Lyla Matthews
- 2nd Place Emerie Mullis
- 1st Place Kaydence Freeman
Leadership & Personal Development
- 1st Place Lyla Matthews
11-12 Age Division
Environmental Science
- 1st Place Maylee Hudspeth
Family & Consumer Science
- 2nd Place Autumn Pendry
- 1st Place Stella Matthews
13-15 Age Division
Communication Arts
- 2nd Place Addie Lowder
- 1st Place Brooklyn Heyman
Healthy Lifestyles
- 2nd Place Lola Wilbanks
- 1st Place Rebekah Crouse
Leadership and Personal Development
- 1st Place and Grand Champion-Bailey Poindexter
Science & Technology
- 1st Place Rebekah Crouse
16-18 Age Division
Science and Technology
- 1st Place Reece Jones
Electric Energy 4-H Portfolio entry for the 13-15 Age Division
- 1st Place Rebekah Crouse-13-15
- 1st Place Reece Jones-16-18
Next we got to recognize our 2024 winners North Carolina 4-H Photography Contest Winners. Those winners were:
- Katherine Swaim-Second Place-Nature’s Beauty-Junior
- Stella Matthews-Second Place-Special Effects-Junior
- Emerie Mullis-Fifth Place-Special Effects-Junior
- Bailey Poindexter-Third Place-Nature’s Beauty-Senior
- Gabriella Rogers-Honorable Mention-Special Effects-Senior
The next portion of our program took time to recognize our 4-H graduating high school seniors. These 4-H’ers were given 4-H Honor Cords for their outstanding work in the 4-H program over the years. The 4-H that was recognized this year was Sophia Matthews.
The last award we gave out on this night were our 4-H’ers of the Year Awards for 2024. These 4-H’ers had to be nominated for this award and they had to be outstanding 4-H members in Yadkin County 4-H through various 4-H activities. Our winners this year were Maylee Hudspeth, who is a Yadkin County 4-H Teen Council member and Lyla Matthews who is a member of the Prospect 4-H Club.
This was a fantastic night of celebrating our youth for their work over the year and via a few other competitions. We hope that this event will continue on for many years to come so our youth are recognized and celebrated for their accomplishments.