Youth receives state 4-H award

The 2025 Ohio 4-H Achievement Awards were presented earlier this month at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus. Edy Solet from Elyria received the Leadership Achievement Award. Edy, 17, has been a member of the Country Cousins 4-H Club since she was a Cloverbud. In addition to taking a wide variety of livestock and special interest projects, she is also a member of the Erie County Junior Fair Board and is a camp counselor. She participated in the Cultural Immersion Project to Puerto Rico and the Global Immersion Project to Greece. She is also a member of the Ohio 4-H Teen Leadership Council. Solet is a senior at Elyria Catholic High School and is the daughter of Doug and Sara Solet. Ohio 4-H Achievement Awards are presented annually to individuals for outstanding work in their project area. Youth recipients will also have the opportunity to travel to Atlanta in November to represent Ohio at National 4-H Congress. The evening was hosted by the Ohio 4-H Foundation, with 32 youth receiving 2025 honors. Ohio 4-H is the youth development program of Ohio State University Extension, the outreach arm of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. In 2024, over 154,000 Ohio youth participated in clubs, groups and special interest programs.