This week, Middle Tennessee Electric, sent 15 high school students including two from Cannon County to Washington D.C. to participate in the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Washington Youth Tour.The annual tour provides some of the nation’s best and brightest high school students the opportunity to meet with their local elected officials on Capitol Hill, train in leadership and form a peer network with students from across the United States. This year, 1,700 students participated in the youth tour.
“These 15 students are winners of this year’s writing contest,” said MTEMC Community Relations Coordinator, who serves as one of the chaperones each year. “This trip allows the students to learn and experience so much about our nation’s government and see the sights of Washington, D.C.”
This year, Kody Margarito, Alayna Reed from Cannon County along with 13 other area students join the nearly 50,000 previous Youth Tour visitors to Washington in the last 51 years.
Previous Youth Tour participants have become University Presidents, CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, and Members of Congress. In fact, Apple CEO Tim Cook credited the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour with his first trip to Washington in his commencement speech to the graduates of The George Washington University this year.
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation is a member-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperative providing electricity to more than 203,000 residential and business members in Williamson, Wilson, Rutherford and Cannon counties.
