Heather Lamp and Tavion Rosemond are the winners of an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. sponsored by Laurens Electric Cooperative. They will travel with other South Carolina students to the nation’s capital where they will join more than 1,400 students from across the country. The nation’s electric cooperatives sponsor the one-week event each June.
“We sponsor this tour as part of our commitment to the young people in our service area,” said Jim Donahoo, Director of Marketing of the cooperative. “We do this to educate high school juniors about American history and government and about the history and business principles of electric cooperatives.”
The students attending this year’s Washington Youth Tour to represent Laurens Electric Cooperative, called delegates, are Heather Lamp of Gray Court, a junior at Laurens High School, daughter of Stephanie and Michael Cogsdale, and Tavion Rosemond of Greenville, a junior at Carolina High School & Academy and the son of Steaphanie Rosemond.
The delegates were selected from a group of high school students who completed an application and were interviewed by a panel of judges. They will be among 43 other young people from all over the state participating in the tour to the nation’s capital city, June 12-17.
During their stay in Washington, the students will visit with their representatives and senators and tour sites of historical significance.
Youth Tour participants from 39 states will meet in Washington, D.C. for the tour, which has been conducted for more than 40 years.