2021 Fair

Page 26 2021 Logan County Fair Lincoln Daily News July/August 2021 they had a good time and what they would do differently if they did the project again. Dennis Campbell judges the environmental science section and tells kids to keep their interests no matter what. In talking to one child about his bug project, he asked where the child found the bugs and gave him more tips on finding bugs. In judging photography, Jacob Tyler looks at the composition of the photo to see how pleasing and captivating it is and what makes it good. He wants to see how much the kids know about the camera to progress. To make kids feel more at ease and relate to them on a personal level, judges also ask the kids about themselves. Both during and after the judging, judges give feedback telling participants where they did well, as well as how and where they could show improvement. The smallest details can be significant. Some 4-H members did projects using various media and entered both visual and non-visual projects, while others focused on one project. Though some participants have been entering projects for many years, several were entering projects for the first time. First time participant Colby Bowman did a project called junk drawer robotics. He made a marshmallow catapult, which he said was the first thing in the book he had, and was fun to make and use. Henry Farmer, another first-time participant, did projects on tractor safety dos and don’ts and visual arts. In the visual arts project, Farmer painted bolts, screws, nails and a wrench to make them all look like a tree. His grandma gave him the idea and he loves painting. In his first year of 4-H, Klaytyn Snow entered a photograph and poultry science project. Snow’s photo was of a turtle in North Carolina. He got very close up to take the photo, which he said was cool. For poultry science, Snow chose to do a project on chickens because the family raises chickens, and it is easy to learn about them. Since chickens do not have teeth, he wanted to learn how they eat. Scotty White grew sunflowers for his project because he likes them. Though he is just nine years old, White has been growing sunflowers for about five years and has won first place before. White plans to keep competing until he is too old for 4-H. Myah Bowman, who has participated for a few years, did a scrapbooking project on a recent trip to Florida. Bowman loved creating memories of her trip to Florida. Over the weekend, Bowman had made a Swedish Tea Ring that a leader told her was good for a 4-H cooking project. Entering for the sixth year, Palmer Sheets did a scrapbooking project on a trip to Florida her Continued p