West Virginia University President David C. Hardesty, Jr. and West Virginia State College President Hazo Carter will be among those speaking Saturday, Feb. 2, as the West Virginia 4-H program holds a state”conversation”at the WVU Jacksons Mill Center for Lifelong Learning near Weston. The event is part of the 4-H programs 100th anniversary celebration.

More than 130 people from across the state will discuss youth issues and programs. . Hardesty will speak at the noon luncheon Saturday while Carter will close the meeting at 2:45 p.m. The two presidents head the land-grant institutions of higher education that coordinate the state 4-H program, which involves 44,000 youth. The Saturday morning session begins at 8:45 a.m.

The best ideas from the state conversation will become part of the National Conversation on Youth Development in the 21st Century in Washington, D.C.