To be eligible to be selected for the Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., you must:
- Be a high school sophomore, junior.
- Be a child or legal ward of a member of Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. and living in a home served by the cooperative at the time of the tour.
- Include a school transcript indicating cumulative GPA
- Include a letter of recommendation from a guidance counselor, principal, teacher or community or organizational advisor.
- Complete a test consisting of true/false and short essay questions about rural electrification. The test will be given once your application has been received; you will be contacted to schedule a testing time and location (if other than the cooperative office). Cooperative knowledge questions will be based on the Online Orientation course and Electric Co-ops and the Seven Cooperative Principles, located at www.ohioec.org/orientation. Students are recommended to complete this course prior to taking the test. The course takes approximately one hour to complete.