Youth Trips

Each year, LJEC offers the opportunity for high school juniors (whose parents/guardians are members of LJEC) to travel to Washington, DC or Steamboat Springs, CO - all expenses paid. Both of these trips are an excellent opportunity for students to learn valuable leadership skills while also seeing the sights on their respective trips.

Students (high school juniors) are required to complete an application, complete a quiz on the history of electric cooperatives and complete a personal interview with former trip winners at the LJEC offices.

Sample Itinerary - Washington, DC

• Tour the Kansas State Capitol and Wolf Creek Power Plant
• Fly to Washington; visit Old Town Alexandria and attend a theater performance
• Tour the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Arlington National Cemetery and the Smithsonian Museums
• Attend Youth Day Program with 1,500 other students, Tour Mt. Vernon
• Breakfast on Capitol Hill with Congressmen and staff; meet Senators. Visit Iwo Jima Memorial
• Tour National Archives, Fort McHenry National Monument, National Aquarium

Sample Itinerary - Steamboat Springs, CO

• Travel to Denver with dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe
• Visit Lookout Mountain; Welcome meeting with students from Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
• Form a cooperative; participate in the legislative forum; build a transmission line competition and attend a high-voltage demonstration
• White water rafting on the Colorado River
• Visit Mt. Werner and Old Town Steamboat; participate in a volleyball tournament and evening dance
• Tour the Trapper Coal Mine and Craig Generation Plant; Vote for trip Ambassadors