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6/6/2014
This month, a group of 66 Mississippi high school students will join some 1,600 teens from across the nation for the weeklong Rural Electric Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. Each student is sponsored by his or her local electric cooperative, having earned the trip in a competitive process.
Youth Tour turns 50 this summer, a remarkable milestone for any youth-centered event. It is said that Youth Tour grew out of a speech by then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson at the 1957 annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Johnson envisioned sending students to Washington where they could “actually see what the flag stands for and represents.”
Some 28 years ago, electric power associations in Mississippi decided to include Youth Tour as a component of the Electric Power Associations of Mississippi Youth Leadership program. The tour not only rewards students for their participation in the program but also provides them an incomparable educational experience. Whether they have been to the nation’s capital before or not (most haven’t), they see and do new things and make new friends. Youth Tour is a rich, once-in-a-lifetime experience for every student who participates, and we are proud to offer it.
We’ll report on our students’ trip to the 2014 Youth Tour in the August issue of Today in Mississippi.
