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WIN A TRIP TO WASHINGTON!

Youth Tour 2010

If you are a high school junior, you could be a winner of the Rural Electric Cooperative Youth Tour to Washington, D.C. for a week during June. It’s free, it’s exciting and it’s fun! You’ll join some 1300 high school juniors from across the United States to learn more about government, rural electrification, leadership and electric cooperatives.

The trip begins with a “Get Acquainted Banquet” in Oklahoma City, where everyone meets, makes new acquaintances and has an evening of fun. After arriving in Washington, D.C., the tour of our nation’s capitol includes days filled with sightseeing, a riverboat trip on the Potomac and breakfast with Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation. Students also attend a series of educational seminars to learn more about government, the cooperative form of business, and the business of rural electrification.

Kiwash Electric’s Director of Marketing, Lisa Willard will visit each of the schools in KEC’s service area during the month of January.   Lisa will distribute application forms and information packets to each student who would like to participate in the contest.  From this information, a test, consisting of true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and short essay questions will be given.  Test dates will be announced at the time the applications and information packets are distributed.  From these tests, the four finalists are selected and will be the guests of honor at a banquet where a panel of judges will conduct an oral test to determine the placement of winners.  The top two students will be awarded the all expense paid trip to Washington D.C. 

The Youth Tour has three main objectives:
1. To educate youths on all aspects of rural electrification in order to promote a better understanding of the value of rural electric cooperatives.
2. To provide an opportunity for youth to visit monuments, government buildings and cooperative-related organizations in order to become familiar with the historical and political environment of their nation's capital.
3. To provide an opportunity for youth to meet elected officials in order to better understand how their federal government works.

The Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives has been an active sponsor of the Youth Tour since 1963.  More than 2,200 students have been sponsored on trips to the nation’s capital in the last forty-six years.  Kiwash Electric Cooperative has been offering the Youth Tour Program for the past 26 years.