Applications for 2025 Youth Tour are open through October 31, 2024.
Each year, Flathead Electric Cooperative partners with the Montana Electric Cooperatives’ Association and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association to send 2-3 local students to Washington, D.C. for “Youth Tour.” Applications are open through October 31.
Electric cooperatives across the country send about 1,500 high-school students to Youth Tour to learn about the history of this country and the role electric cooperatives played in that history. Montana electric cooperatives typically send about 25 students. They visit many national treasures in D.C. and have the chance to meet with Montana’s congressional delegation.
Using unclaimed capital credits, Flathead Electric Co-op funds 2-3 “all-expenses-paid” trips for high school sophomores or juniors from schools in the Co-op’s service territory.
Youth Tour application requirements:
- Applicants must be regularly enrolled or homeschooled high school sophomores or juniors from schools within the Co-op’s service territory, such as:
- Bigfork High School
- Columbia Falls High School
- Flathead High School
- Glacier High School
- Libby High School
- Stillwater Christian School
- Whitefish High School
- The applicant’s parent or guardian must be served by Flathead Electric Cooperative at their primary residence.
- Applications are open through October 31.
- Youth Tour Orientation will take place June 14, 2025 in Great Falls.
- Winners will leave for D.C. June 15, 2025 and return to Great Falls June 21, 2025.
This year’s essay topic is: What was the most important event to have occurred in our nation during your lifetime? How did it affect you?
To learn more, please visit flatheadelectric.com/youthtour.