The Rural Electric Youth Tour for high-school juniors - June 11 - June 18, 2010
Wake Electric seeks applicants for a $1,000 scholarship plus a one-week all expenses paid trip to Washington D.C. for the 2010 Rural Electric Youth Tour. The trip will be from June 11 – June 18. Students who attend the Youth Tour will join 1,500 high school students from across the U.S. to learn about electric cooperatives, American history and the U.S. government. Students also visit the historic sights and federal facilities of the nation’s capital and spend time with their congressional delegations. They also create podcasts and digital photo projects while learning about issues in renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change legislation that face their communities and the nation. The $1,000 scholarship will be awarded the following year upon proof of enrollment in a college or university.
Applicants must currently be high school juniors in Wake, Durham, Johnston, Vance, Granville, Nash, or Franklin counties. Applicants do not have to live in households served by Wake Electric in order to win.
For more information on the youth tour, visit www.youthtour.coop.
To download an application, click here.
The deadline to submit applications is Friday, March 19, 2010. For additional information, call Angela Perez, Communications/Public Relations Specialist, at 919.863.6376 or send an email to angela.perez@wemc.com.
Two local high school juniors were selected to represent Wake Electric last summer 2009.
Wake-Forest Rolesville High School student Lukas Holub, 17, of Wake Forest, and Franklin Academy student Brian Panasiak, 17, of Louisburg, attended the annual 2009 Rural Electric Youth Tour. In June, Holub and Panasiak joined nearly 1,500 students from across the United States in the nation’s capital. Over the course of the week, students, traveling with delegations from their own state, visited historic sites and federal facilities and spent time with their congressional delegations. Students created podcasts and digital photo projects as they learned about electric cooperatives and discussed issues in energy and climate change legislation that face their communities and the nation.
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| Lukas Holub | Brian Panasiak |
Questions and applications can be directed to:
Angela Perez
Communications/Public Relations Specialist
P.O. Box 1229
Wake Forest, NC 27588
E-mail: angela.perez@wemc.com
Fax: 919.863.6430
Phone: 919.863.6376
The youth tour is funded through voluntary member and employee donations to Operation Round and the Wake Electric Foundation.
