The local Cooperative Youth Tour delegates, who will represent A&N Electric Cooperative, have been selected. This year’s A&N Electric Cooperative Youth Tour delegates are:
- Jacob Simpson — Arcadia
- Terry Owen — Broadwater Academy
- Jakai Simon — Chincoteague
- Jerimiah Wharton — Nandua
- Eli Philpot — Northampton
These students will tour the nation’s capital while learning about the electric cooperatives that serve their communities and others like them.
Each June, as many as 2,000 high school students from across the country spend a week in the nation’s capital as part of the Cooperative Youth Tour.
The students are sponsored by electric cooperatives that are committed to educating America’s rural youth about our country and the role electric cooperatives play in developing strong rural communities.
Each year A&N holds an essay contest to determine its Youth Tour delegates. Essays are graded anonymously by an independent judge who selects a winner to represent each participating high school. The essay contest is open to all high school and homeschooled juniors living in the cooperative’s service area.
A student from each area high school was eligible to attend the Youth Tour. Essay guidelines are shared with each school and the contest is advertised through a number of cooperative communication channels.