Lamb County EC held its Government-in-Action Youth Tour Competition on Feb. 1, with two selected to represent Lamb County and travel to Washington D.C.
The 59th annual Government-in-Action Youth Tour in Washington, D.C., is scheduled for June 14-21.
The seven applicants from Littlefield, Sudan, Olton, Whitharral, and DRE Resources Homeschool Academy were interviewed individually before a panel of three independent judges.
The applicants discussed several topics and answered questions about electric cooperatives and facts about Lamb County EC.
The winners chosen as a youth tour delegate are Tyson Carr, Littlefield High School, and Analeeze De La Rosa, Sudan High School. Alternates are Alexandria Dalton, Littlefield High School and Reese Moore, DRE Resources Homeschool Academy in Littlefield.
In June, Carr and De La Rosa will join approximately 150 youth tour delegates from across Texas in Austin, and then join all the delegates from across the United States in Washington, D.C. President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texan who advocated for rural electrification and youth development, as a U.S. senator, suggested “sending youngsters to the national capital where they can actually see what the flag stands for and represents.”
In 1965, Texas electric cooperatives began sponsoring students on the youth tour. In 1999, Lamb County EC sent the first group of youth tour delegates on this trip of a lifetime.
Organized by Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), electric cooperatives across the state and nation have been sending young adults to the nation’s capital for an actionpacked tour.
Highlights of the trip include meeting congressional leaders, visiting national monuments and historic sites, touring the Smithsonian Institution, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Museum of the Bible, visiting Arlington National Cemetery, and rallying with more than 1,700 fellow students for a day of inspirational leadership speakers.
The 59th annual Government-in-Action Youth Tour in Washington, D.C., is scheduled for June 14-21.