Details for applying will be provided as soon as the 1999-2000 schedule is set. Presentations of the awards for last years program have just been completed.
Recognition is based on outstanding achievements in self-initiated community service.
These students are selected from an initial field of nearly 20,000 student volunteers across the country. Just two individuals are recognized from each state and only ten are selected nationally. Contreras, a seventh-grader at Roskruge Middle School, organized an unusually active and successful community service club at her school in response to the drug use, violence and gang activity she had observed at a neighboring high school. It has also conducted bake sales, auctions and talent shows to raise money for eyeglasses, library books, a science field trip, and a baby's heart operation. The following information has been provided by National 4-H Council.