The month of June sure puts a spring in the step of Indiana’s electric cooperatives; it’s the only way they can keep up with the participants of two of their most important community outreach programs: Camp Kilowatt and the Indiana Youth Tour.

CAMP KILOWATT

Camp Kilowatt, held June 7-10 at YMCA Camp Tecumseh near Brookston, introduced 100 incoming seventh graders, sponsored by 28 electric co-ops, to electric utility careers with circuit boards and bucket truck rides, electric vehicles and electric safety. That was in addition to all the regular summer camp activities like zip lining, horseback riding, swimming, archery, riflery, canoeing, storytelling and singing at a campfire, and a new addition to Tecumseh named Skywalkers, a type of vertical obstacle course.

INDIANA YOUTH TOUR

With a new Sunday-to-Sunday schedule, the Indiana Youth Tour sent 75 incoming high school seniors, representing 29 electric co-ops, eastbound to Washington, D.C., and back, June 11-18. The unforgettable educational adventure included stops at the Flight 93 Memorial, Gettysburg, Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian Museums, the Holocaust Museum, monuments and memorials, and other sites; as well as visits with Indiana’s congressional leaders.