Local students represent CEC at Montgomery Youth Tour event

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Local high school juniors attended the 2025 Montgomery Youth Tour on March 11-13. These students won the Youth Tour essay competition at their schools last fall. The Alabama State Capitol is one of many stops during the three-day leadership program held in Montgomery. Pictured are, from left, (front) Miracle Wright of Red Level, Kylee Brown of Straughn, Kayla Hughes of Pleasant
Home, Kylie Thomasson of Pleasant Home, Karley Bryan of Brantley; (back) William Wyrosdick of Kinston, Rebecca Rose Guilford of Pleasant Home, August Ford of Brantley, Briley Griffin of Pleasant Home, Molly Glisson of Samson, Kalie Davis of Kinston, and
Connor Blackwell of Red Level. (PHOTO PROVIDED)

On March 20, CEC honored its 2025 Montgomery Youth Tour delegates with an awards luncheon at its main office in Sanford. As part of the awards luncheon, CEC also held an interview competition to
select this year’s Washington Youth Tour winners. The Montgomery Youth Tour essay winners who attended the luncheon are pictured here with their certificates. Not pictured is Molly Glisson of Samson. The 2025 Washington Youth Tour winners are Kalie Davis of Kinston, Kylie Thomasson of Pleasant Home, Briley Griffin of Pleasant Home, and Kayla Hughes of Pleasant Home. The first alternate is William Wyrosdick of Kinston and the second alternate is Rebecca Rose Guilford of Pleasant Home. (PHOTO PROVIDED)

Students vie for paid trip to Washington, D.C.

Covington Electric Cooperative recently sponsored juniors from each high school it serves to attend the 2025 Montgomery Youth Tour on March 11-13. Students were selected last fall through an essay competition held at their schools.

The CEC Youth Tour delegates joined approximately 130 students from across the state at the Montgomery Youth Tour which included tours of the Alabama State Capitol, the Legacy Museum, Alabama Department of Archives and History, and the Alabama State House. The trip also included team-building activities with motivational speaker Craig Hillier and a visit with former congresswoman Martha Roby on the last day.

CEC’s Montgomery Youth Tour participants competed on March 20, for four slots on the National Rural Electric Youth Tour in Washington, D.C., which will take place in June. The competition included a test on co-op history and facts, as well as an interview.

Kalie Davis of Kinston, Briley Griffin, Kylie Thomasson, and Kayla Hughes of Pleasant Home were selected as CEC’s 2025 Washington Youth Tour delegates. William Wyrosdick of Kinston was chosen as the first alternate and Rebecca Rose Guilford of Pleasant Home was chosen as the second alternate.

“Students gain valuable leadership skills and insight from attending Youth Tour,” says Katherine Silva, CEC’s communication specialist. “We notice the positive impact this program has on attendees and their confidence. As a former Youth Tour student, seeing CEC continue to support this great program for the students in our service area brings me great joy,” she added.

The purpose of the Youth Tour is to inform young people about how cooperatives benefit their members, learn about government and history, enhance leadership skills, and meet other young people from across the state and nation while visiting historical sites and landmarks.