Special to Atmore News
The Washington D.C. National Rural Electric Youth Tour, sponsored by local electric cooperatives, the Alabama Rural Electric Association and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, is part of a grassroots program to educate high school juniors on the electric cooperative program and the cooperative ideas for which it stands.
In June, approximately 53 students from Alabama traveled to Washington D.C., joining students from across the nation.
Area students attending were Makenna Alverson, Flomaton High School; Ali Booker, Sparta Academy; Carter Hodges, W.S. Neal High School; Serenity Mitchell, T.R. Miller High School; Brianna Pugh, J.U. Blacksher High School; JR Witherington, Monroe Academy.
The youth tour experience is filled with fun activities, but its overall purpose is to increase students understanding of the value of rural electrification, help them become more familiar with the historical and political environment of our nation’s capital through visits to monuments, government buildings and cooperative organizations … and visit elected officials to increase the students’ knowledge of how the federal government works.