HONOR CLUB
Are you in at least the sixth grade? Have you been an active 4-H member? Do you enjoy leadership and citizenship activities? Then, maybe you can become a Tennessee 4-H Honor Club member! Honor Club is for junior high (sixth, seventh, and eighth graders) and senior (ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders) 4-H’ers who have been active members of their local clubs.
What is 4-H Honor Club?
The 4-H Honor Club is organized statewide and provides recognition, primarily within counties, of junior high and senior high 4-H members who have demonstrated consistent leadership ability and have been active members in their clubs and communities. Tennessee 4-H Honor Club is one of three recognition levels that an outstanding 4-H member may achieve during their 4-H career. 4-H Honor Club membership is granted to those 4-H’ers who have shown exceptional 4-H project work and a willingness to share what they have learned with other 4-H’ers as a junior or teen leader.
How Do I Join 4-H Honor Club?
Here in Meigs County, all you have to do is show up ready to have fun, participate, learn to be a leader, and learn how to serve others! Once you have spent some time in the Meigs County Honor Club, we will work towards your membership at the state level. For the state level, you don’t have to have won a lot of awards to be an Tennessee Honor Club member…just be an active participant in our local 4-H Honor club. You don’t win membership in the Tennessee Honor Club, you earn it. You’ll score points for Tennessee Honor Club membership for everything you’ve done as a 4-H member. Participation is the name of the game when it comes to 4-H Honor Club! Membership is based on an application form. Anyone who can score a minimum number of points on the Tennessee 4-H Honor Club application can become a member. It’s not hard. You get points for everything you do…completing your projects, participating in events and activities, making presentations, helping other 4-H’ers, volunteering in your community…you even get points just for joining 4-H!
Anyone can become an Honor Club member if they’re just willing to participate…and participating is fun!
Why Join 4-H Honor Club?
Honor Club members become involved in educational, recreational, and community service activities. These activities could include helping with 4-H shows, fairs, and workshops; making window displays; serving as project leaders; attending weekend camps; special trips or tours; dances and parties. Honor Club members might be involved in bike-a-thons, tree planting, Christmas caroling, and hiking trips. A favorite activity of Honor Clubs is taking exchange trips where 4-H members have the opportunity to visit 4-H members in other states.
All in all, Honor Club can be anything and everything you want to make it. Opportunities for citizenship and service activities and leadership and project development are key in Honor Club work.
And… Honor Club is only the first step in Tennessee’s recognition program for outstanding 4-H members. Senior members can earn a spot in All Stars through their citizenship and community service work. All Stars is the second step leading to the final step of recognition. Vol State is the highest recognition a Tennessee 4-H member can earn, and it all starts with the 4-H Honor Club.
All-Stars
What is 4-H All Stars?
Tennessee 4-H All Stars is the second level in the Tennessee 4-H recognition program for outstanding 4-H members. Through active participation in their 4-H clubs, 4-H’ers in seventh through twelfth grades can earn points to become members of the 4-H Honor Club. Once they complete the eighth grade, Honor Club members may apply for membership through their county office in 4-H All Stars. Membership in All Stars is based on SERVICE, which is the All Star motto.
How Do I Join All-Stars?
According to the Constitution and Bylaws, the following qualifications apply for selection of nominees for All Star initiation:
Active 4-H Club member*
Must have completed the eighth grade*
Must be a member of the Tennessee 4-H Honor Club*
Outstanding leadership ability
Commendable character
Above average project work
Willingness to serve
* The first three qualifications are required.
For more information about 4-H Honor Club or All-Stars, please contact our office at (423)-334-5781 or email Ms. Kyra at kyrepett@tennessee.edu with any questions about the competition.