4-H youths win public speaking contest

MILTON — The Santa Rosa County 4-H program, in conjunction with Tropicana, provided local youths a chance to demonstrate their public speaking skills May 12 during the annual 4-H Tropicana Public Speaking Contest.

The county had 4,276 youths in 15 schools participate in the program, resulting in 26 participants at the county level. 

Santa Rosa contest winners are as follows.

Fourth grade

1st Place, Jake Hutchinson, "My Momma has a Belly Bug"

2nd Place, Pasco Rowell, "Bumpy Speech"

3rd Place, Emma Jackson, "Like a Girl"

Honorable Mention, Jonah Smith, "Every Cloud has a Silver Lining"

Fifth grade

1st Place, Cooper Carlock, "Terrorism Today"

2nd Place, Jada Savage, "Dreaming vs. Determination"

3rd Place, Ryan Welch, "September 26, 2016"

Honorable Mention, Mallory Hagan, "Foods Made by Mistake"

Sixth grade

1st Place, Tymera Williams, "Women's Rights Around the World"

2nd Place, Brandon Lewi, "Michael Jordan"

3rd Place, EmmaLee Pittman, "My Life with Headaches"

Honorable Mention, Rivers Lewis, "Family"

Other students who participated at the county level are as follows:

Fourth grade

• Noelle Cover
• Kate Jones
• Olivia McCloskey
• Layla McCullough
• Kiley Samford

Fifth Grade

• Jack Dendall
• Nathan Hanners
• Sydney Smith
• Bailey Underwood
• Jennabelle Womack   

Sixth Grade

• Kyrstin Dubose
• Makayla Guilbeau
• Jesalyn Salort
• Catie Staudt

Tropicana provides full scholarships to this summer's 4-H Camp Timpoochee for first-place elementary and middle school division winners.  

The business has sponsored the contest since 1969. It provides classroom materials for teachers, certificates of participation, medallions for school winners, and trophies for county winners, summer camp scholarships and orange juice refreshments for the county contest. 

This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: 4-H youths win public speaking contest