What is Project Achievement?
Project Achievement empowers youth with skills for a lifetime. Students choose a project area they are interested in, research the topic, and present their findings. As students become older, a record keeping component that promotes independent thinking and implementation is added. Senior competitions (9th-12th grade) encourage youth to become more involved in their project areas and advance to state and national levels. In the 2020 program year over 79,000 4-H’ers participated in project achievement developing leadership, creativity, public speaking and other life skills.
Please see below for an updated list of the project achievement program highlights.
Project Achievement Sponsorships
Sponsorship funds are used to provide awards, ribbons, and/or medallions for all 4-H project achievement participants and to send district winning 4-H’ers to State Congress. Additionally, these contributions provide state winners with the opportunity to attend National Congress to represent Georgia. The support and generosity of project achievement sponsors, at all levels, play a crucial role in the ability to cover these costs.
For a number of years, sponsorships were broken out by competition levels including Cloverleaf, Junior, and Senior categories, all which asked for varying donation amounts. When assessing the opportunity to better steward project achievement donors, and to cover ever-rising costs of project achievement and State/National Congress, it was decided to streamline the process into five distinct areas.
Currently there are 50 senior projects that compete at all three levels: county, district, and state. Blue Ribbon donors at the $ 2,500 level are the named sponsors of one of Georgia 4-H’s senior projects.
In addition to the Blue Ribbon level, there are also additional opportunities for donors to help fully fund project achievement through the Red Ribbon, White Ribbon, Participant, and Sustainer levels of contributions. Regardless of the donation level, all contributions here will collectively make an enormous impact each year to insure the success of our almost 80,000 participants.
Please see below for an updated list of the project achievement sponsorship levels.
