Area students visit Washington, D.C. area sites

Kyle Hack, Mt. Gilead, and Daniel Schus­ter, Cen­ter­burg, were among 35 high school win­ners from through­out Ohio and West Vir­ginia who vis­ited Wash­ing­ton, D.C. and other points of inter­est June 15–21 as part of Ohio Rural Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tives, Inc.’s Youth Tour to the nation’s capital.

The week-long trip included a visit to the U.S. Capi­tol and other areas of his­tor­i­cala sig­nif­i­cance. The stu­dents were awarded the tour in a scholas­tic com­pe­ti­tion spon­sored by Con­sol­i­dated Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive, Inc. of Mt. Gilead, a Touch­stone Energy® coop­er­a­tive. The sopho­mores and juniors joined 1,500 other rural youths rep­re­sent­ing 42 states.

As part of their tour of the nation’s cap­i­tal, stu­dents met with mem­bers of their Con­gres­sional del­e­ga­tion, vis­ited Arling­ton National Ceme­tery and attended a per­for­mance at the Kennedy Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts.

Kyle is the son of Tim and Patty Hack and Daniel is the son of Kurt and Alice Schuster.

Posted by Gary Henery on Jul 11 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.