Perhaps CEC’s best-known and most anticipated youth program, Youth Tour is a week-long, all-expenses-paid educational trip to Washington, D.C. in June of each year. CEC annually sponsors three delegates—all juniors—from high schools within its service territory on Youth Tour. Students travel with the Oklahoma delegation (70+ students) to our nation’s capital where they tour historic sites and national landmarks, meet Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, and more. Youth Tour has earned a reputation as “a trip of a lifetime” by former participants. In the past years, Youth Tour participants were able to visit National Monuments and Memorials, Smithsonian Museums, Mount Vernon, Arlington Cemetery, Ford Theater, Holocaust Museum and many other points of interest as well as getting to meet with Oklahoma’s representatives and senators. As in years past, Choctaw Electric pays for all lodging, transportation and meals for the students selected for Youth Tour.
Youth Tour 2025 will be held June 13-19, 2025.
*We are asking any interested junior to submit one (1) project containing the following components:
Create an innovative plan for saving energy at your school.
Abstract – includes a brief summary of your project’s goals and
impact it will have on the school
Eco-friendly – show how your project will save energy
Recycling process – explain how your project will re-purpose or recycle materials
Waste reduction – explain how your project will reduce waste
Energy reduction – show how your plan will save energy in your school
References – support your ideas with credible references – do NOT use Wikipedia!
Create an innovative plan for saving energy at your school.
Abstract – includes a brief summary of your project’s goals and
impact it will have on the school
Eco-friendly – show how your project will save energy
Recycling process – explain how your project will re-purpose or recycle materials
Waste reduction – explain how your project will reduce waste
Energy reduction – show how your plan will save energy in your school
References – support your ideas with credible references – do NOT use Wikipedia!
*Deadline to apply is January 17, 2025. Submit your presentation to Jia Johnson at jjohnson@choctawelectric.coop .
Finalists will be required to participate in a formal interview at the CEC office in Hugo and be prepared to discuss their project before a panel of judges. Date to be announced. After the presentations are judged, we will select finalists to be interviewed. Winners will be selected based on their presentation and interview. Please feel free to contact Jia Johnson with any questions you might have about the Youth Tour program. She can be reached at (580) 326-6486, (800) 780-6486, ext. 241 or at jjohnson@choctawelectric.coop .