Electric Cooperative Youth Tour

Each year, Ozarks Electric Cooperative sends four high school juniors on an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. These students join 1,400 other juniors, also sent from cooperatives across the country to learn about our nation's government, our nation's history and their place in our nation's future. Students are selected through an essay and interview process.

Students may contact their high school guidance counselors for information about Youth Tour. Each student will write an essay on a topic provided by Ozarks Electric. The essay must be submitted by the deadline to be eligible.

After the essays are judged, finalists will be selected to be interviewed. Winners from Arkansas and Oklahoma are selected to attend the trip that takes place in June each summer.

Guidelines and entry form - Deadline is February 1, 2020.

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Applicants should be successful in academics, engaged in extra-curricular activities and/or community service and have demonstrated leadership potential.

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I agree to abide by all rules of the contest and by the decisions rendered by judges at all levels of the competition. If you are chosen as a winner and unable to attend, the trip will be forfeited and the runner-up will receive the trip. *

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Please choose one of the following topics and write a 500-700 word essay to answer in the space provided. It is often helpful to compose your answer in a word processing document and then copy paste it over. Your essay will be scored on development of topic and details, organization, format/ grammar and usage/ mechanics. Development of topic and details given will have the largest weight in scoring. *

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