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YOUTH TOUR WINNERS ANNOUNCED Pawnee High School student Leah submitted essays or videos on the “We are proud to support Youth Tour Brown and Cushing home-school topic, “Briefly describe the seven and the experiences it has to offer,” said student Ethan McBride were selected cooperative principles. Which do you Hunter Robinson, CEO of Central. to represent Central think is the most “It is an opportunity for us, Electric Cooperative and important and as a cooperative, to hear the state of Oklahoma on why?” Out of 42 what our future memberan all-expense-paid trip to submissions, a consumers value.” Washington, D.C., as part panel of judges of the electric cooperative selected the top Brown and McBride were Youth Tour. Three $250 five students to selected for the Youth Tour post-secondary education compete in the trip this summer. Recipients scholarships were also final portion of the of the $250 scholarships announced at the Dec. 3 competition. The are Janelle Pickering and Brown McBride banquet. finalists presented Dakotah Allen of Cushing their ideas to a High School, and Grant Central’s Youth Tour is a two-part panel of judges and a room of parents, Myers of Perkins-Tyron High School. competition open to all service teachers, principals, and Central board n SEE “YOUTH TOUR WINNERS,” PAGE 3 area high school juniors. Students members and employees.
The finalists for the 2020 Oklahoma Electric Cooperative Youth Tour are (left to right) Janelle Pickering, Cushing; Grant Myers, Perkins-Tryon; Leah Brown, Pawnee; Ethan McBride, Cushing; and Dakotah Allen, Cushing.