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Youth Programs Cooperatives across the United States adhere to 7 Cooperative Principles which symbolize what cooperatives represent and define their beliefs. The 5th Principle is: Education, Training and Information. Cooperatives provide education and training not only for their members, managers and employees but they contribute effectively to the development of their future leaders – our young people. Listed below are three of the many youth programs that the cooperative sponsors each year:
Rural Scholarship Program Fayette Electric Cooperative, Inc. awards six $1,000 scholarships each year to students who reside full-time in the co-op’s service area, so that they may attend the college, university or technical school of their choice.
Government-in-Action Youth Tour The Government-in-Action Youth Tour is an annual event in which electric cooperatives have been participating for more than 40 years. An estimated 120 students from Texas represent electric cooperatives from across the state in Washington, DC where approximately 1,400 students and chaperons meet. Two winners and an alternate are selected by an independent panel of judges from entries in an essay contest held each year. The Youth Tour has three main objectives: Ø To educate young people on all aspects of rural electrification in order to promote a better understanding of the value of rural electric cooperatives; Ø To provide an opportunity for young people to visit historical sites and visit cooperative-related organizations in order to develop leadership skills which serve rural interests and electric co-ops; and Ø To provide an opportunity for young people to meet elected officials in order to better understand how their government works.
PowerHouse™ Energy Investigation Program The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) developed the PowerHouse™ program in 1999 for use by its wholesale electric customers. The program is designed to educate students and their families about the effects their energy use – from electricity to water to gasoline – has on the environment, from depletion of resources to air pollution. Fayette Electric Cooperative immediately adopted the program for schools in our service areas. Together we provide a visible tool to increase and promote energy efficiency. Through this program, we provide informative curriculum that teachers can use and that middle school and junior high schools find interesting. The students take the lessons they learn from PowerHouse™ home to their parents, so the message and the benefits of the program spread quickly throughout the communities in which the program is presented.
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