This summer season, 5 native highschool college students will journey to Washington, D.C., and Columbia as winners of the Washington Youth Tour and Cooperative Youth Summit by way of alternatives offered by Aiken Electrical Cooperative.
This yr’s winners are Antonio Taylor of South Aiken Excessive College, Charlotte Miss of Swansea Excessive College, Isaac Westbrook of Strom Thurmond Excessive College, Sophia Love of Strom Thurmond Excessive College, and William McKinney of Ridge Spring-Monetta Excessive College.
College students utilized for this program and had been chosen by a committee based mostly on a evaluation of a submitted essay, their information of Aiken Electrical and an in-person interview.
“Aiken Electrical is proud that these college students will signify our service space,” mentioned Gary Stooksbury, CEO of Aiken Electrical.
The Washington Youth Tour, sponsored by South Carolina’s electrical cooperatives and Nationwide Rural Electrical Cooperative Affiliation, is an all-expense-paid week-long journey designed to coach college students about our nation’s capital, the sacrifices made for our freedom, and the worth of the cooperative method of enterprise.
The Cooperative Youth Summit is a four-day management convention held in Columbia. College students will learn the way cooperatives and state governments work whereas enhancing management expertise. They’ll additionally spend time at a few of the state’s most well-known venues just like the Statehouse and River Banks Zoo.
Each journeys are all-expense-paid and are awarded to college students whose households receives electrical service from Aiken Electrical. Greater than 1,500 college students from throughout America participate within the Washington Youth Tour expertise every June. Greater than 40 college students from throughout the state take part within the Cooperative Youth Summit.
Aiken Electrical, a Touchstone Power cooperative, is a not-for-profit, member-owned utility that strives to offer dependable, competitively priced power and different providers desired by its members. The co-op serves greater than 50,000 clients in a nine-county space.