Co-op offers all-expense-paid youth trips for students

NEWS RELEASE
UNITED POWER
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Each summer, United Power selects local students from high schools with its service territory to represent the cooperative for a week in the mountains of northwest Colorado at the Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp or on an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. for the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour.

These trips provide youth leadership training opportunities for student leaders to bring back and model in their schools and communities. The application deadline for both the youth tour and youth camp has been extended to Jan. 25, 2023.

The Electric Cooperative Youth Tour has been a proud tradition among cooperative since 1957. Students and their peers from across the country spend a week in the nation’s capital learning about American history and the cooperative business model while developing leadership skills. The tour also includes an opportunity to visit with Colorado’s congressional delegates and see some of the city’s most historic sites. The Electric Cooperative Youth Tour will be held June 12 to 18.

Students selected for the Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp will spend a week with peers from Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming “managing” their own cooperative, including the election of directors, to learn the value of cooperative principles.

Days are filled with leadership training seminars and collaborative group projects, as well as fun activities like rafting down the Colorado River or exploring the iconic Fish Creek Falls in Steamboat Springs. The Electric Cooperative Youth Camp will be held July 15 to 20. 

Applications for the youth tour and youth camp are now available. Learn more about these opportunities and apply at unitedpower.com/youth-trips or contact Julie Stewart, United Power’s Community Outreach Specialist, at 303-637-1334.

United Power is a member-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperative, delivering electricity to homes, farms and businesses throughout Colorado’s northern front range. The cooperative is one of the fastest-growing electric cooperatives in the nation, and in June 2021 joined the elite ranks of cooperatives serving more than 100,000 meters. The 900-square mile service territory extends from the mountains of Coal Creek and Golden Gate Canyon, along the I-25 corridor and Carbon Valley region, to the farmlands of Brighton, Hudson, and Keenesburg. United Power is also a founding member of the NextGen Cooperative Alliance, which is dedicated to expanding the power supply and procurement options available to distribution co-ops and reforming the traditional generation and transmission business model. For more information about United Power, visit www.unitedpower.com or follow the cooperative on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.

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