CREWE, Va – High school juniors in Southside Electric Cooperative’s (SEC) service area are invited to apply for this June’s Electric Cooperative Youth Tour in Washington, D.C.

The Cooperative will select eight students for the all-expenses-paid trip to the nation’s capital June 16-20.  The deadline to apply is Feb. 8.

While in D.C., Youth Tour delegates will tour Arlington National Cemetery and many of Washington’s
monuments and museums, take a dinner cruise on the Potomac River, see a Nationals baseball game and visit Capitol Hill, where they will have a tour and meet members of Virginia’s congressional delegation. Participants will spend a day in nearby Baltimore and make friends with Youth Tour students from more than 40 other states.

Any high school junior who lives and attends school (or home-school) within SEC’s 18-county service territory can apply. Students’ parents or guardians do not have to receive electricity from SEC.  Competition involves an application, essay and interview. Complete rules can be found at www.sec.coop/YouthTour.

Since 1964, America’s electric cooperatives have sponsored high school students to visit Washington, D.C., meet their legislators and learn more about the electric industry.

For more information about Youth Tour, contact Mark Thomas at 434-645-3276 or mark.thomas@sec.coop or Lloyd Lenhart at 434-645-3185 or lloyd.lenhart@sec.coop.

Southside Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit, member-owned electric cooperative that serves more than 56,000 homes and businesses in portions of 18 counties in central and southern Virginia. Headquartered in Crewe, SEC has district offices in Altavista, Crewe, Dinwiddie and Powhatan. For more information, visit www.sec.coop.