Outstanding Program/Innovator

2021

• 1st Place Outstanding Program Award – Neighborhood Leadership Academy Team - Claire Rippel, Dwayne James, Misti Ritter, David Burton, Pamela Duitsman, Sarah Hultine Massengale, Jackie Spainhower, Tish Johnson, Christina Edholm, Kyle Whittaker
• Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – Cooking Matters at Home, St. Louis – Leslie Bertsch, Emily Barbee

2020

• 1st Place Outstanding Program Award – 4-H Live: Online Learning Team - Chelsea Corkins, Cindy Wells, Tracie Moore, Heather Conrow, Laura Evans, Kathi Mecham, Sarah Havens, Amanda Meek, Stephanie Milner, Steve Henness plus more. More than 30 adult and youth presenters. 4900 views!
• Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – The Home Gardening Webinar Series Team – Juan Cabrera-Garcia, Debi Kelly, Katie Kammler, Donna Aufdenberg, Justin Keay, Leslie Bertsch, Kathy Mecham
• Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – Labor and Workforce Development Webinar Team – Matt Pezold, Doug Swanson, Amy Patillo

2019

• 1st Place Outstanding Program Award – Individual: Labor Studies Program – Doug Swanson
• Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – Team: The Jackson County Asthma Prevention Team – Lydia Kaume, Denise Sullivan, Mannie Hall, Paul Foreman, Rebecca Brown
• Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – Individual: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Camp – Stephanie Milner

2018

• 1st Place Outstanding Program – EXCEL community development program - David Burton
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program – Finances on a Fixed Income - Ashley Bales
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program – Dig into Ag-Venture - Karla Deaver

2017

• 1st Place Outstanding Program – Pablo Arroyo and Jacquelin Rasmussen
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program – Cynthia Crawford
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program – Patrick Byers and Robert Balek

2016

• 1st Place Outstanding Program – Great Game of Business - David Burton
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program – Your Farm, Your Business, Your Future - Darla Campbell
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program – Eden Coad - Beverly Maltsberger

2015

• 1st Place Outstanding Program - Learn By Doing - Stephanie Milner and Phyllis Flanigan
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program – Financial Literacy Among Youth - Meridith Berry
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program - Practical Horticulture Training for Urban Youth - Lala Kumar

2014

• 1st Place Outstanding Program - Build Your Own Board - Connie Mefford, Georgia Stuart-Simmons, Larry Dickerson
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program – Livingston County Entrepreneurship Team - Shaun Murphy

2013

• 1st Place Outstanding Program — Friends of Greene County Extension — David Burton
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program — Pilot Grove Grocery Store — Connie Mefford
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program — Taking Control of Your Finances — Vivian Mason

2012

• 1st Place Outstanding Program — Old North St. Louis — Kara Lubischer
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program — Head Start Garden — Patrick Byers
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program — Joplin Tornado — Kathy Macomber and Janet LaFon

2011

• 1st Place Outstanding Program — Active and Healthy School Program — Lynda Johnson
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program — Christian County Family Crisis Task Force — Renette Wardlow
• 3rd Place Outstanding Program — State 4-H Public Speaking Academy — Kathy Bondy and Patty Fisher

2010

• 1st Place Outstanding Program — Farm and Small Business Estate Planning — Joe Koenen, Karisha Devlin and Darla Campbell
• 2nd Place Outstanding Program — Eating from the Garden — Karen Elliott, Lala Kumar and Cindy Zluticky

2009

• 1st Place Innovator Award — Focus on Forages — Heather Benedict, Randa Doty and Amie Schleicher
• 2nd Place Innovator Award — South Central Region Wellness Competition — Melissa Bess

2008

• 1st Place Innovator Award — Food Fest — Darla Campbell and Jennifer Schutter
• 2nd Place Innovator Award — Weed ID — Eldon Cole, John Hobbs, Tim Schnakenberg and Bob Schultheis
• 3rd Place Innovator Award — Rural Professional Landowner Issues — Bob Broz, Darla Campbell, Karisha Devlin and Joe Koenen

2007

• 1st Place Innovator Award — Meat Goat Pocket Record — Randall Saner and James Humphrey
• 2nd Place Innovator Award — Project on Wheels — Sarah Staude
• 3rd Place Innovator Award — Missouri Better Beef Seminar — Wendy Flatt and David Hoffman

2006

• 1st Place Innovator Award — Healthy Kids Kamp — Sarah Staude and Susan Mills-Gray
• 2nd Place Innovator Award — Christian County Family Crisis Center — Renette Wardlow
• 3rd Place Innovator Award — Grandparents Raising Grandchildren — Phyllis Flanigan and Mary Gosche

2005

• 1st Place Innovator Award — Annie's Project — Mary Sobba and Karisha Devlin
• 2nd Place Innovator Award — Stay Strong, Stay Healthy — Melissa Bess, Karen From, Lynda Johnson, Glenda Kinder, Beverly Pfeiffer, Linda Rellergert, Susan Mills-Gray and Vera Nichols
• 3rd Place Innovator Award — Producing Cattle Profitably for the year

2004

• 1st Place Innovator Award — Elizabeth Reinsch
• 2nd Place Innovator Award — Jim Humphrey and Katie Ketcham

Meritorious Service

2020: Amy Bartels

2019: Pamela Duitsman

2018: No Award - No Applications

2017: Lynda Zimmerman, Linda Morgan

2016: Karisha Devlin, Zachary Erwin

2015: Pat Snodgrass, Kathy Bondy

2014: Michelle Klem: Joe Koenen

2013: Jennifer Schutter, Kent Shannon

2012: Melissa Bess, Todd Lorenz

2011: Ted Probert, Cynthia Zluticky

2010: Jim Humphrey, Wayne Prewitt

2009: Amie Schleicher

2008: Jim Humphrey, Wayne Prewitt

2007: David Hoffman, Mark Stewart

2006: Randall Saner, Wendy Brumbaugh

2005: Donna Taake, Rebecca J. Travnichek

2004: Jackie Rasmussen, Mary Sobba

2003: Jackie Rasmussen, Mary Sobba

2002: Nina Chen, James E. Meyer

2001: Janet LaFon, Beverly Maltsberger

2000:Tom Hansen, Renette Wardlow

1999:Don Mobley

1998: Ben Gallup

1996: Bob Schultheis, Susan Pickle

1995: Lisa Wallace

1994: Glen Easter, Janet Kline, Don Nicholson, Rick Sparks, Chris Bouchard

1993: Mary Beth Carr, Susan Mills Gray, Harold Storck, Don Utlaut, Cassey Venters, Linda Wulff

1992: Laurie Haflich, Ron Higginbotham, Barry Link, Wayne Shannon

1991: Marsha Alexander, Beverly Pfeiffer

1990: Tamara Kasser, Ken Bolte, Gaylord Moore, Lynda Johnson, Betty Ann Broman,Max Miller

1989: Pauline E. Lindsey, Beverly Coberly, Jim Kennel, Ronald Young, Byron Morrison, Randy Humphrey, Gene Munson, Wayne Bailey

1988: Dale Cox, Kathy Dothage, Nancy L. Flood, Alan Boesch, John Hoehne, Jean Ward, Dan Cotton

1987: Patty Morris Fisher, Sherron Hancock, Kris Jenkins, Don Day, David Lindell, Harlan C. Lynn

1986: Glenda Kinder, Johanna Reed Adams, Dale Hagerman, Cathy Oesterling, Kermit Hindahl, Palma K. Crass, Thomas Henderson

1985: John Lower, Robert Chapple, Gene Haenni, Dorothy Heieie, Bill Chronister, Kate King NE, Charles Fulhage

1984: Robert Heitmeyer, Lenard Johnson, Robert Ruehlow, Norman Risner, Joan Cain, Sharon Tubbs, Wanda Eubanks

1983: Robert H. VanHoozer, Ross Swofford, Marjorie Frankenbach, Sharon Lundeen, James Dennison, Ronald Stoller, Wilfred Craig

1982: Roberta DeCocq, Jill Lekrone, Ralph Angel, Henry DiCarlo, George W. McCollum, Gerald J. Zumbrunnen, Mildred Bradsher

1981: Charlotte George, Ruth Pirch, Gaylon Fanning, Marion Gentry, Paul Mayginnes, James L. Whitfield, Randy Halsey

1980: Charles Rosenkrans, Roger Bennett, Dorothy Borchelt, Fred Oehring, John Ballard, Glenda Hawkins, Betty Feather, Joe Scott

1979: Raymond Kimmel, Jerry Thompson, Mary J. Hilliard, Diane Olson, William Purnell, Donald M. Boesch, Glenn A. Grimes, Velda Rankin

1978: Ed Meek, Don Rains, DeLois Buswell, Wilma Jean Lower, Jim Freeman, June Lamee, Nelson Trickey

1977: Calvin Jones, George Graham, Rebecca Nistendirk, Viola Smith, Jack West, Bill Knight, Tom Perrin

1976: Eldon Cole, Ed Schwitzky, Henrietta Clark, Ilene Workman, Paul Schoene, Robert Miller, William J. Murphy

1975: John Moorehead, Janet Snyder, Richard Prewitt, Jack McCall, Stan Ponce, Roy Carter, Homer Sewell

1974: Karl Hartung, Ina Johnston, Elbert Turner, Hubert Headrich, Tom Brown

1973: Ambrose Winn, Phillip M. Weeden, Kenneth Morris, Raymond G. Gabriel, Walter Buchanan, Juanita Barr, John Massey

1972: Victor L. Corothers, Oval L. Claxton, Shirley Drinkard, Ruth Flett, John D. Hubbard, Patricia Jarboe, James R. Teegarden, Alice Alexander

1971: Frances Meyer, Ben Daugherty, Owen Fox, Grace Wright, Hubert J. Krautman, Raymond Steffens, Ralph Ricketts

1970: Don Bailey, Ruth K. Bernstein, Mary Alice Carlson, Bob Mason, Hartford Patrick, Henry Young

Connection and Engagement Award

2021: Chelsea Corkins, Micah Potgieter

2020: Bethany Bachmann, Jessica Trussell

2019: David Burton, Rachel Hopkins

Rookie of the Year

2021: Amber Allen, Emily Doosing

2020: Chelsea Corkins, Juan Cabrera-Garcia

2019: Tamra Reall, Raysha Tate

2018: Sarah Morefield, Douglas Swanson

2017: Rusty Lee, Megan Samson

2016: Lindsey Stevenson, Janice Emery

2015: Emily Crowe, Dana Joerling

2014: Mark Porth, Jill Scheidt

2013: Stephanie Schindler, Gentrie Shafer

2012: Connie Neal, Kelli Wilmes

2011: Chrystal Irons

2010: Clint Dougherty, Whitney Wiegel, Mary Wissmann

2009: Heather Benedict, Patrick L. Byers, Kathy Macomber, Andy Read

2008: Jenny Flatt Norell, Joni Ross, Chris Shoemaker, Sarah Traub

2007: Richard Proffer, Lynette Watson, Randa Brunkhorst-Doty, Gary Cross

2006: Rich Hoorman, Grace Njeru, Tricia Freund-Wagner

2005: Amanda Cook, Robert McNary

2004: Sam Angima, David Burton, Karisha Devlin, Sarah Staude, Ron Walker

1998: Sam Funk

1997: Rebecca Travnichek

Staff Programing Award

2021: Davida Pedigoi

2020: Tammy Culpepper, Daneal Gerke

2019: Justin Castning

2018: Jill Lane, Linda Shelton

2017: Shana Sorg, Elaine Davis