2012 Washington Youth Tour Delegates

2012 Washington Youth Tour Winners

Char­lie West­brook of Rock Hill and Sarah Keistler of Clover are the win­ners of an all expense-paid trip to Wash­ing­ton D.C. spon­sored by YEC. They will trav­el with approx­i­mate­ly 45 oth­er South Car­oli­na stu­dents to the nation’s cap­i­tal where they will join more than 1,400 stu­dents from across the coun­ty, June 16–21.

“The pur­pose of the tour is to teach stu­dents the val­ues every elec­tric coop­er­a­tive brings to the com­mu­ni­ties they serve, pro­mote civic involve­ment, enlight­en youth on today’s press­ing ener­gy issues and pro­vide a per­son­al view of our nation’s rich her­itage,” says co-op Pres­i­dent and CEO Paul Basha. “YEC con­grat­u­lates these young lead­ers and we’re sure they’ll have a great trip and rep­re­sent us well.” Char­lie is a junior at West­min­ster Cataw­ba Chris­t­ian School and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. West­brook, Jr. Sarah is a junior at Clover High School and the daugh­ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Keistler.

In D.C., Char­lie and Sarah will gain per­spec­tive on today’s impor­tant issues and their role as engaged cit­i­zens. They will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet with mem­bers from the SC con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion and tour the Supreme Court, Mount Ver­non, Arling­ton Nation­al Ceme­tery, Jef­fer­son, Lin­coln, Kore­an and Viet­nam Vet­er­ans memo­ri­als.

Dur­ing the tour, you can fol­low the S.C. del­e­ga­tion at twitter.com/scyouthtour. Also, access youthtour.coop for reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed pho­tos of our future lead­ers in action.

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