Lamb County Eelectric Coop held their 25th Lamb County Electric Coop Government-in-Action Youth Tour Competition on Sunday, January 28, 2024.
Ten applicants from Littlefield, Sudan, Whiteface, and DRE Resources Homeschool Academy interviewed individually in front of a panel of three independent judges from other cooperatives. The applicants discussed different topics and had the opportunity to answer questions in relation to electric cooperatives and facts about Lamb County EC.
The winners chosen to represent Lamb County Electric Coop are Garicyn Bigham, a Junior at Sudan High School, and Miriam Cueto, a Junior at Littlefield High School. Denton Moore, a Junior at DRE Resources Homeschool Academy will represent Golden Spread EC.
In June, they will join approximately 150 youth tour delegates from across our great state of Texas in Austin. The Texas representatives will 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, Johnson 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 to sponsor students on the youth tour trip. 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 action- packed tour. Highlights of the trip include meeting congressional leaders, visiting national monuments and historic sites, touring the Smithsonian Institution and Holocaust Memorial Museum, Museum of the Bible, Arlington National Cemetery, our nation’s capital, and rallying with more than 1,700 fellow students for a day of inspirational leadership speakers.
The 57th annual Governmentin- Action Youth Tour in Washington D.C. will be held from June 1623, 2024. Our west Texas schools, local communities and state will be very well represented by our leaders on this trip of a lifetime.