One hundred and eight high school students participated in Missouri’s 62nd annual Missouri Electric Cooperative Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., June 15-21. 

Local delegates sponsored by Cuivre River Electric Cooperative were Chozen Coleman, Isabella Hufty and Gavin Sauer, all of Liberty High School; Aleksander Harman, Elsberry High School; Naomi Van Dyne, Francis Howell North High School; and Paige Harrell, North Point High School.

Youth Tour takes the best and brightest high school students from Missouri’s rural schools on an all-expense-paid trip to our nation’s capital. The seven-day tour provides an action-filled week for the students, offering them opportunities to learn firsthand what it is like to be involved in politics, leadership positions, community service and today’s pressing issues while having fun touring the many monuments.

Highlights of the trip include visiting representatives from their congressional districts, touring monuments, the Smithsonian Institution’s museums, Arlington National Cemetery and the International Spy Museum. The group also took a sightseeing and dance cruise on the Potomac River one evening with the delegations from five other states. 

For more information about the Youth Tour program, contact Tim Schmidt at tschmidt@cuivre.com or 636-695-4837.