Youth Tour

Youth Tour Winners -- Youth Tour Brochure   

What is Youth Tour?

Each year Ozark Electric sponsors an essay contest to select two area high school juniors to represent the Cooperative on the National Rural Electric Youth Tour -- an exciting week-long, all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C. in June!
These two Ozark Electric delegates travel with approximately 80 students from across Missouri for a week of sightseeing, learning, and fun! This year’s trip is scheduled for June 11-17, 2010. Missouri delegates and their parents will attend a banquet and orientation in Jefferson City the first night before delegates fly out the next day to D.C. Read on!


Contest Rules:
*Student eligibility. This contest is open to any current high school junior attending a school located in one of the nine counties served by Ozark Electric Cooperative (Barry, Christian, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Polk, or Stone counties). *Immediate family members of Ozark Electric employees or board members are ineligible to compete.

Essay Requirements:
Each contestant is required to write and submit a typewritten, double-spaced essay of at least 300, but not more than 500, words in length. Download the attached brochure for essay title and other detailed information.

Essay Deadline:
Essays must be received by 5:00 pm on Friday, March 5, 2010. Please mail or deliver to: Linda Stander Youth Tour 2010 Ozark Electric Cooperative P.O. Box 420, 10943 Hwy 39 Mt. Vernon, MO 65712


More Opportunities:
MISSOURI CYCLE: Ozark Electric’s Youth Tour Third & Fourth place runners-up will attend the all-expenses-paid, three-day Cooperative Youth Conference & Leadership Experience (CYCLE) in Jefferson City July 14-16, 2010. At this conference you will learn 1) leadership skills, 2) Missouri Government, and 3) the Cooperative form of business in a FUN, FAST, & FRIENDLY atmosphere!
YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL (YLC): Each year while in Washington DC, Missouri selects one of its Youth Tour delegates as the Youth Leadership Council (YLC) representative who then travels around the state and nation meeting new people, speaking at conferences, and representing our State for a whole school year. It’s another opportunity of a lifetime, and you could be that person!

Any questions??? Feel free to call Linda at 1-800-947-6393, ext. 2317.