Indiana’s electric cooperatives, along with Electric Consumer and our statewide association, offer several programs benefitting the youth of our state.
Those youth programs include the Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest, Youth Power and Hope Awards, Page Day, Touchstone Energy Camp, and Youth Tour.
Electric Consumer also features special activities each month in our magazine geared toward our younger readers through our PowerKids page. Check out some of the projects here.
What you need: Light blue or white pipe cleaners Scissors Glass jar Pencil Boiling water Borax What to do: Twist pipe cleaners together to form a snowflake. We made a very simple shape, but encourage older children to create a more complicated design. Wrap a pencil perpendicular to one of the extending pipe cleaners. Trim all pipe… Continue reading.
Hearts are everywhere in February as everyone gets ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day. If you like to cut and paste, you’ll enjoy making this lovable “heart person.” Write a Happy Valentine’s Day message on it and your heart person becomes a Valentine’s Day card! Simply cut out heart shapes of different sizes from colored paper…. Continue reading.
Thirteen of the 22 winning students from the 2011 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art attended a special recognition reception at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, Sept. 30. The event was the first in the new partnership between Electric Consumer, which produces the calendar each year for some 20-participating electric cooperatives, and the Hoosier Salon,… Continue reading.
The late radio broadcaster Paul Harvey used to tell us “the rest of the story.” This month, we present our own version of that idea with follow-ups on three youth recently featured in Electric Consumer. Nick Hebert, Heidi Ziebarth and Kori Brown were introduced to readers through their involvement in the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour to Washington,… Continue reading.
Annual Touchstone Energy Camp offers high-voltage fun and adventure Two-by-two they launched themselves from the tall wooden tower toward the setting sun. Harnessed to a tight cable overhead, appropriately labeled a zip-line, they slipped over the lake below with a zizzing sound. Laughter followed as they came in for a landing on the opposite shore… Continue reading.
Kyle Driscoll is one graduating senior who’s not only thought a lot about his future, he’s actually felt it in the air and held it in his hands. Driscoll helped construct an Indiana Touchstone Energy Home as part of his high school building trade class this past school year. “It’s pretty exciting to know that… Continue reading.
Contest’s youngest ‘Artist of the Year’ blazes her own artistic trail Heidi Ziebarth is an 11-year-old with a sense for adventure and a love for nature. Her family’s Warsaw home backs up to a small neighborhood lake where she spends much of her time outdoors exploring. And for the subject of an upcoming speech in school,… Continue reading.
Blend the soaring imaginations and passions of almost 2,800 student artists from around Indiana with monthly calendar themes and what do you get? The 13th annual Student Art Contest and subsequent publication, Cooperative Calendar of Student Art, is what. The wall calendar, made available by participating electric cooperatives around the state and Electric Consumer in… Continue reading.
All of us tend to take electricity for granted. We’re used to flipping on the switch and having the lights go on. When we click the remote control, the TV comes on. All those appliances in the kitchen make it convenient for our parents to prepare meals for us. The only times you may have… Continue reading.
The day after Valentines 2009 was a gray, cold Sunday across northern Indiana. Four teenage friends from the Royal Center area were hanging out that afternoon at one of their homes. Toward dusk, the four, Lee Whittaker, Ashley Taylor, David Wooldridge and Joshua Kline, accepted an invitation to dinner from David’s mom. They climbed… Continue reading.
‘Freedom is not free” is a quote engraved on the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The price is evident on Washington’s war memorials all along the mall and on each white stone marker up the hillside across the Potomac River at Arlington National Cemetery. And our democratic republic form of government also comes… Continue reading.
In Mikala Greenlee’s paintings, she mixes art with her heart and her mind. “If you’re going to do something, do something that you have an interest in or you’d have fun painting or drawing,” Mikala advises other student artists. “They turn out better if you’re having fun doing them.” For her, that combination produces works… Continue reading.
For a dozen years now, a baker’s dozen pieces of art — one for each numbered grade in school representing each month of the year along with a kindergartner’s cover — has been picked in an Indiana student art contest sponsored by Electric Consumer and participating electric cooperatives. The spray is displayed in the annual… Continue reading.
