OKLAHOMA 4-H HALL OF FAME
Madison Stephens
As a young girl, Madison Stephens said she couldn’t wait until she was old enough to join the Custer County 4-H Horse Club. As she learned more about the Oklahoma 4-H organization, her love for 4-H quickly grew beyond the horse project. Passionate for performing arts, Stephens founded the Custer County 4-H Performing Arts Club. Through the club, she hosts tea parties for small children featuring Performing Arts Club members dressed as princesses. She has raised more than $4,000 for the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital Foundation through her Princess Parties, and has hosted tea parties at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House. Additionally, Stephens combined her interest in Oklahoma’s history with her performing arts project. After applying for multiple grants and researching and writing a play about the Oklahoma Land Run, Stephens recruited members of her county’s 4-H Horse Club and Performing Arts Club to teach Oklahoma history to more than 600 students through a play, Land Run reenactments and hands-on workshops. “4-H has taught me that if I put my head, heart, hands and health together, there’s no telling how far I can go,” Stephens said. “4-H has taken me to unexpected places and given me experiences that no other youth organization could do.” Stephens truly represents what it means to be a well-rounded 4-H member, and her accomplishments in 4-H are one of a kind.
Serena Woodard
Pittsburg County 4-H member Serena Woodard’s early 4-H career was centered around her love for dancing. She gave presentations and talks about dance. When she was in sixth grade, Serena and her sister began teaching Woodard’s Workshops. At the time, the workshops were mostly craft-based. About a year after her first Woodard’s Workshop, she came home and told her mother she wanted a goat. With this new-found love of agriculture, she decided to switch things up and focus more on agriculture in Woodard’s Workshops. Since the switch, she has reached nearly 40,000 students through her workshops. In 2018, Woodard was named the Agriculture Pillar Winner of the 4-H Youth in Action Awards. She served a term as a national spokesperson for 4-H agriculture programming. Her expertise was shared throughout countless speaking appearances, including Bayer’s Farm Progress Show, 4-H Agri-Science Summit and 4-H Ideas Forum. Her passion for 4-H was also shared in Teen Vogue Magazine, and she was a key player in National 4-H Council’s marketing efforts. Adding to her impressive list of leadership experiences, Woodard served as Pittsburg County 4-H president, a State 4-H Ambassador and a Southeast District representative for the State 4-H Leadership Council. Woodard is the essence of a passionate and dedicated leader in Oklahoma 4-H.
