The Rural Electric Youth Tour is a group of more than one thousand high school juniors who vi   sit Washington D.C., every June, year after year from all over America. They come because the people who lead electric cooperatives believe education is important-education about electric cooperatives and education about America.

Clarke-Washington EMC has been sending high school students from Southwest Alabama to Youth Tour for decades. Clarke-Washington EMC’s Youth Tour contest is open to students in the eleventh grade and consists of an essay and interview portion. Only two winners are chosen to participate in the Youth Tour events.

Contest winners will first attend the Alabama Rural Electric Association’s Montgomery Youth Tour, March 3-5, and join other students representing electric cooperatives all over Alabama. This trip includes touring historic sites and meeting with state leaders.

Clarke-Washington EMC’s Youth Tour winners will join other students from rural electric cooperatives around Alabama, and fly to Washington D.C. for an all expense paid, week long trip, June 13-18.

Youth Tour 2009 Brochure   

 
2009 Youth Tour Group from Alabama meets
with Alabama U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions in
Washington D.C.