By Ashley Fenning
The Box Butte County 4-H Council congratulates these Box Butte County 4-H members on their high school graduation and wishes them much success. We know this year was very different for our high school seniors. We are proud of this well-deserved accomplishment that you have achieved! Our Box Butte County 4-H Seniors include: Delaney Childers, Jayda Meyring, Catherine Bryner, Hayden McDonald, RJ Riggs, Jett Eggers, Keagan Hitchcock, Avery Davies, Brayden McGowan, Kenna Montes, Mia Reynolds, and Sonny Gonzales.
The Box Butte County 4-H Council is pleased to announce the three recipients of the 2023 4-H 5C’s Scholarships and the one recipient of the 2023 Sharon Davis Memorial Scholarship. The criteria used to select the recipients includes leadership, academics, personal growth, and 4-H career. An emphasis is placed on leadership, involvement, and growth within the 4-H program.
The following High School Seniors were selected to receive scholarships:
Catherine Bryner, Alliance High School, daughter of Dusty & Sally Bryner is presented a $1,000 4-H Box Butte County 5C’s Scholarship.
Jayda Meyring, Alliance High School, daughter of Jay and Shauna Meyring is presented a $1,000 4-H Box Butte County 5C’s Scholarship.
Delaney Childers, Alliance High School, daughter of Jim and Katie Childers is presented a $1,000 4-H Box Butte County 5C’s Scholarship.
Avery Davies, Hemingford High School, daughter of Adam and Jessica Davies is presented with the $500 4-H Sharon Davis Memorial Scholarship.
In addition to the graduating senior scholarships, the 4-H Council awards two $1,000 scholarships annually to 4-H alumni who are sophomore, junior or senior college students and have shared how their 4-H experience has impacted their life.
Recipients this year are Wade Sanders, son of Tom and Teresa Sanders, who is attending Texas Tech University and Shelbee Burke, daughter of Tom and Gail Burke, who is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Congratulations to all the scholarship recipients and thank you to those that submitted a 4-H Scholarship, we hope you will apply again in the again next year.