Students: Apply for an all-expenses-paid trip to Cooperative Leadership Camp this summer

The annual Cooperative Leadership Camp in Laurel Hill, North Carolina, is a full-week overnight camp designed to provide an exciting experience for high-school students, concentrating on the cooperative way of doing business in a free enterprise society. The camp helps students develop leadership skills and qualities in our future community leaders, while gaining a better understanding and appreciation for cooperatives.

Approximately 50–70 teens from all parts of the state are sponsored to attend for free by local cooperatives. The program is an experiential learning process where the teens build a worker/owner tee shirt cooperative, elect a board, hire a general manager, design, and produce T-shirts. They learn about leadership, governance, and the 7 cooperative business principles during the entire process.

Each year, the camp includes a ceremony recognizing the campers who demonstrate outstanding leadership qualities. Five campers are selected to receive Leadership Awards for their unique leadership abilities and receive an expense-paid trip to the National Institute on Co-op Education at Virginia Tech University. All students attending the full week of

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Congratulations to our 2022 recipient—A’Mya Harmon (pictured fourth from the left). REC sponsored two more youths to attend the Cooperative Leadership Camp last summer—Braxton Williams and Tejas Juikar (not pictured).

camp are also eligible to apply for the $1,000 Jim Graham Cooperative Leadership College Scholarship their senior year of high school. Applicants must: è Be a rising high school sophomore, junior, or senior. è Be able to attend the entire leadership camp. è Be willing to participate as well as utilize training following participation in the camp. è Possess leadership potential.

For more details and to check out all of Roanoke Electric Cooperative’s youth programs and scholarships, go to roanokeelectric.com/community/rec-gives-back/ youth-programs.

2023 Cooperative Leadership Camp Dates

June 26–30, 2023

Scholarship Application Deadline

April 30, 2023

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