There are many different types of careers that are in agriculture. One for example is what Bobbie Lewis-Sibley does for a living. She works for the U of I Extension and is the Director of McLean, Lewis, and Woodford Country 4-H.
Bobbie got her bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University in Sociology. She then went to Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA and got her MBA with a concentration in Human Resources. These both have helped her to get to where she is today with not only the kids involved in the 4-H program but also with the volunteers and parents. Even with not having a specific degree in agriculture, she used her interests in her degrees of study and in agriculture to make a career of it.
Bobbie is very active with her job. She works with fiscal and personnel administration, facilities management, volunteer management, marketing, educational program planning and development and networking with other community agencies and resources. She has the largest area in the state of Illinois with all three of her counties being in the top ten. The McLean county 4-H fair is actually one of the largest fairs around.
4-H is a kind of club that kids from elementary age to high school age can join and be a part of. In this they will learn skills for living like Leadership and Citizenship, Science Engineering and Technology, and Healthy Living. Within these, the members will do projects from making clothes to baking and electrical wiring to animal related projects. The program has strong values based on the youth and their families. The clubs are fun to be a part of and the projects are even more fun because you are learning but it’s a fun kind of learning.
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