REC Youth Tour winners announced
Pictured above, left to right, Caden Evanson and Riley Troendle ...
Judges for REC Youth Tour ... Judging this year’s applicants for the REC Youth Tour were, left to right, LeAnn Meyer of West Union, South Winneshiek High School Guidance Counselor Connie Euans, and Janice Koenig of Castalia. Submitted photo.
Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative (ACEC) has selected two area high school students to go on an all-expense-paid Youth Tour trip to Washington, D.C. Caden Evanson and Riley Troendle, both of Lansing, will depart from Des Moines June 18 of this year for an all-expense-paid trip to Washington D.C. Both students are sophomores at Kee High School in Lansing.
The two students will join 1,800 other high school sophomores and juniors from across the nation for this once-in-a-lifetime trip. Youth Tour applicants meet personally with a panel of judges who quiz them on their knowledge of rural electrification and the cooperative form of business. The student’s parents or legal guardians must be members of the Cooperative.
The 2022 judges were Connie Euans, the guidance counselor at South Winneshiek School; Janice Koenig of Castalia and LeAnn Meyer of West Union.
For many REC Youth Tour winners, the tour will be a week of firsts: First week away from home, first airplane flight, and first time seeing the famous sites of Washington, D.C. They return with impressions of a culture far different from the small towns and farms usually served by electric cooperatives. Those impressions will help shape each student’s future and the future of rural areas.
All high school sophomore and junior students whose parents or legal guardians are members of ACEC are eligible to participate in the Youth Tour contest. Information on the 2023 contest will be available from the Cooperative and in the offices of area high school guidance counselors beginning in December of this year. Additional information is also available at acrec.com and youthtour.coop.
