Milam County 4-H seniors receive $62,500 in 4-H scholarships

Milam County 4-H members received $62,500 in scholarships from 4-H. Six 4-H members received $500 in scholarship from the Milam County 4-H Foundation Chris Holcombe Memorial Scholarship: Colby Barton, Kincaid Callahan, Colby Green, Gabriel Ramthun, Sydney Vaculin, Grant Widner. 

Texas 4-H Foundation scholarships will be awarded at Texas 4-H Roundup from June 8th-10th. We are so very happy to announce that Gabriel Ramthun received a Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholarship in the amount of $20,000, Kincaid Callahan received a $10,000 Ft. Worth Stock Show Syndicate scholarship, Colby Green received a $10,000 Davidson Foundation scholarship, Sydney Vaculin received a $10,000 McLean Estate scholarship, Grant Widner received a $5,000 Floyd Lynch Memorial scholarship, and Colby Barton received a $4,500 Producers’ Cooperative Association scholarship. These scholars had to do an intensive scholarship application (including 3 essays), and this year they had to an interview in College Station.

We are super proud of these seniors and their accomplishments! They have all succeeded in the 4-H program and have served as teen leaders in multiple capacities! We will miss them all so much as they go to college next year! 

For information and resources on these great 4-H related activities, please go to www.Join4-h.com or www.facebook.com/milamcountyfourH 

For more information about Milam County 4-H, please call the Milam County Extension Office at (254) 697-7045 or email Micah Holcombe, FCS Agent, at mlholcombe@ag.tamu.edu or Floyd Ingram, Ag Agent, at Floyd.Ingram@ag.tamu.edu.