Editor's note: These are two of several members who have spent 10 years with 4-H. We'll introduce you to more throughout the Allen County Fair, which continues through Sunday. 4-H is open to students through Grade 12 of the exhibition year.

♦Age: 18

♦Hometown: Fort Wayne

♦School: Graduated from Carroll High School last spring and will attend IPFW to study math this fall.

♦4-H family history: She decided to join 4-H after watching her older brother and cousin participate. “It looked like a fun family thing.”

♦Past events and projects: Swine (all 10 years), fine art and photography off and on through the years

♦Awards, recognition: Several championship ratings throughout the years, reserve champion in barrow (2001), overall grand champion in barrow (1999).

♦Favorite 4-H memory: Showing her pigs. She and her sisters Amber, 16, and Lauren, 14, also present swine.

♦Final thoughts: “I'll miss getting to see my cousins and friends, playing cards and having water balloon fights.”

♦Age: 18

♦Hometown: Fort Wayne

♦School: Home-schooled through North Atlantic Regional Schools; plans to study biology and pre-veterinary medicine at IPFW in the fall

♦4-H family history: Family has been involved since before she was born. All siblings — four older and four younger — are involved with 4-H in some way.

♦Past events and projects: Showed dairy goats for 10 years, meat goats and cart and pack for eight years, sheep for four years, dogs off and on for nine years

♦This year: Large latch-hook rug for basic craft, veterinary science poster on an injured goat kid, painted stone frog for small basic craft

♦Awards, recognition: Three-time grand champion in goat showing, grand champion in cart and pack last year, 2008 Accomplish scholarship winner, Master Goat Showman in 2007 (allowing her to participate in the Showman of Showmen contest).

♦Favorite 4-H memory: Working with fellow 4-Hers and having the opportunity to teach others.

♦Final thoughts: “I'll miss the excitement of being in the show ring, but I'm looking forward to being a volunteer resource leader.”