Victory Electric’s representatives join other Kansas teens on a weeklong trip aimed at developing leadership skills and expanding knowledge of our political system. The Kansas state youth tour director, arranges the Kansas delegation's visits to our U.S. Representatives' and Senators' offices, federal agencies, and other educational and sightseeing activities. In addition to the planned statewide activities, the youth tour experience encompasses multi-state activities coordinated by NRECA.
The group meets in Topeka and starts the trip with a look at state government where there they meet current state elected officials who also participated in youth tour. After a tour of the state capital, students are guests at a nearby electric cooperative to learn more about rural electric cooperatives through a career fair, safety demonstration, and a ride in a bucket truck.
Once in Washington, D.C., the group visits with Kansas’s congressional delegation and make important stops at national memorials museums and monuments to include: the Holocaust Memorial Museum, George Washington’s Mt. Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery, the Smithsonian museums, a show at the Kennedy Center, and much more.