Dougherty Comprehensive High School graduate named Master 4-H’er
Kiedon Bryant: 4-H mastering was harder than getting into college
By Jada Haynes
ATLANTA — During his last year as a 4-H member, Dougherty Comprehensive High School graduate Kiedon Bryant received the title of Master 4-H’er at last month’s National 4-H Congress in Atlanta.
Bryant earned the title by placing first in the robotics project. He said he also attended workshops centered on community service and met members of 4-H from other regions, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Bryant said he worked on his robotics for seven years and made it all the way to the state level after four attempts.
“With my project, I did build robots but it was more than (that),” Bryant said. “In Project Achievement, you really work on your project throughout the whole entire year. For instance, you have to do portfolios, which is where we put everything that we’ve done in the past year with 4-H and our project area.
“Also, we do presentations on our projects. In my presentation, I talked about the history of robotics and robots being used in the real world.”
Bryant said that while putting together his portfolio helped with his interviewing and application skills, “mastering was harder than getting into college.”
“It wasn’t easy to get into colleges but I feel like working through 4-H and getting the title of Master 4-H’er takes a lot more work, I would say,” he said. “When you do your presentation and interview, you actually are trying to impress people who work in the career field related to your project. Some of my judges were engineers or engineer professors at Georgia Tech or (University of Georgia).”
Bryant is currently studying biology at Georgia State University and said he is taking his lessons from 4-H with him.
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