Washita County 4-H Poster and Photo Contest Results

  • AT LEFT: Bentlee Lester won first place for 4-h Promotional/Class 300-1.
    AT LEFT: Bentlee Lester won first place for 4-h Promotional/Class 300-1.
  • BOTTOM LEFT: Delainee Moore of Cordell won first place in Crops in our Lives.
    BOTTOM LEFT: Delainee Moore of Cordell won first place in Crops in our Lives.
  • MIDDLE RIGHT: Maddux Funkhouser of Sentinel won first place for 4-H theme.
    MIDDLE RIGHT: Maddux Funkhouser of Sentinel won first place for 4-H theme.
  • BOTTOM RIGHT: Evangelene Denny of Burns Flat-Dill City won first place in four classes: 4-H promotional, four photos, identifying common mistakes and best individual photo.
    BOTTOM RIGHT: Evangelene Denny of Burns Flat-Dill City won first place in four classes: 4-H promotional, four photos, identifying common mistakes and best individual photo.

4-H members from Burns Flat-Dill City, Canute, Cordell and Sentinel entered 74 poster and photo projects in the annual contest. The Washita County Farm Bureau Women sponsor this event giving each entry $2.

Participants in the poster contest not only utilize their skills in creativity & decision making, but they also get to showcase their 4-H project and promote 4-H in an artistic way. There were 49 posters entered this year.

The results are as follows:

■ 4-H Promotional/Class 300-1 (3-5th Grade): 1st Bentlee Lester/Sentinel, 2nd Waverly Schneberger/BF-DC, 3rd Braxton Barnett/BF-DC, Ruth Moser/Cordell, Madilynn Davidson/Sentinel.

■ 4-H Theme/Class 300-2: 1st Maddux Funkhouser/Sentinel.

■ 4-H Promotional/Class 300-4 (6-8th Grade): 1st Evangelene Denny/BF-DC, 2nd Brance Barnett/BF-DC, 3rd Rowdy Waugh/Sentinel.

■ 4-H Promotional/Class 300-7 (9-12th Grade): 1st Brianna Cross/Sentinel, 2nd Kemper Woodis/Cordell.

■ Food Diversity/Class 308-17 (3-5th Grade): 1st Brooke Thomas/Canute.

■ Wildlife/Class 318-4 (3-7th Grade): 1st Brenley Musick/Sentinel, 2nd Sara Misener/Canute, 3rd Macie Hall/Canute.

■ Natural Resources of My County/Class 319-5 3-7th Grade): 1st Parker Bartlett/Canute.

■ Crops in Our Lives/Class 320-21 (3-5th Grade): 1st Paisley Visnieski/Canute, 2nd Noah Burris/Sentinel.

■ Crops in Our Lives/Class 320-22 (6-8th Grade): 1st Delainee Moore/Cordell, 2nd Alexander Misener/Canute.

■ Horticulture in Our Lives/Class 324-10 (3-5th Grade): 1st Mia Borrayo/Canute. Companion Animal/Class 325-1 3-7th Grade): 1st Paisley Visnieski/Canute, 2nd Cassie Ray/Cordell.

■ Cloverbud poster entries receiving a participant ribbon: Canute Cloverbuds: Cullen Galmore, Kahnan Kirk, Keltyn Kirk, Maria Misener, Paul Misener, Abagail Schneberger, Kenzie Talbert, Annie Schuster, Francis Harrison, D.J. Steffes, Georganne Harrison, Ryker Peck, Kallie Hall, Trapper Visnieski, Rainsly Warnke and Gentry Warnke. Cordell Cloverbuds: Cambree Moore and Abel Ledesma.

■ 4-H members actually learn science, technology, and math while utilizing their camera in capturing just the right image. Twenty-five entries were evaluated this year. Results are as follows:

Level 1 Jr./Class 1/Four Photos (plant, people, animal, scenery): 1st Evangelene Denny/Burns Flat-Dill City (BF-DC), 2nd Kathryn Sirmon/BF-DC, 3rd Abigail Sirmon/BF-DC, Aubrey Sturgeon/BF-DC, Braxton Barnett/BF-DC, Emma Ray/Cordell.

■ Level 1 Jr./Class 3/Identifying Common Mistakes: 1st Evangelene Denny/Burns Flat Dill City, 2nd Kathryn Sirmon/BF-DC, 3rd Abigail Sirmon/BF-DC.

■ Level 1 Jr./Class 4/Four photos showing event or story: 1st Kathryn Sirmon/BF-DC, 2nd Abagail Sirmon/BF-DC, 3rd Evangelene Denny/BF-DC.

■ Level 1 Jr./Class 5/Best individual photo: 1st Evangelene Denny, 2nd Braxton Barnett/BF-DC, 3rd Abagail Sirmon/BF-DC, Emma Ray/Cordell, Kathryn Sirmon/BF-DC.

■ Level 1 Sr./Class 6/Four Photos (plant, people, animal, scenery): 1st Brance Barnett/BF-DC, 2nd Joey Mooney/BF-DC.

■ Level 1 Sr./Class 8//Identifying Common Mistakes: 1st Joey Mooney/BF-DC.

■ Level 1 Sr./Class 9/Four photos showing event or story: 1st Joey Mooney/BF-DC.

■ Level 1 Sr./Class 10/Best individual photo: 1st Joey Mooney/BF-DC, 2nd Brance Barnett/BF-DC. Class 25/Jr. Digitally altered photographic illusion: 1st Evangelene Denny/BF-DC. Best individual photo Cloverbud participant: Brett Sturgeon, BF-DC.