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Entry Form 2010

The contest is open to all high school sophomores and juniors attending a high school that is located within the service area of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative.

The contest is also open to a high school sophomore or junior who resides in a home on Farmers’ Electric lines and attends a high school outside the Cooperative’s service area, where the Youth Tour to Washington Contest is not offered at that high school. Students in this category must add the parents Farmers’ Electric Account Number on the entry form.

The contest is not open to a student who attends a high school in Farmers’ Electric Cooperative’s service area, but resides on another cooperative’s lines that also conducts the Youth Tour to Washington Essay Contest. This student must enter his/her cooperative’s Essay Contest. Children of FEC employees and directors are not eligible.

Submit a typed essay, 250-600 words in length on the following topic:

• Sophomores: “What can homeowners do to become more energy efficient?”
• Juniors: “If signed into law, how will the cap and trade legislation, now in Congress, impact rural Missouri.”

You are not limited to any resource materials supplied by Farmers’ Electric Cooperative.

Your essay, if you wish, may include interviews with individuals involved in the energy field.

Use ONLY the main subject title on your essay.

Essays must be in the Cooperative office or postmarked not later than 4:30 p.m. Friday, February 26, 2010. Our address is: Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, ATTN: Steve, P.O. Box 680, Chillicothe, MO 64601.

A judging committee will select the three finalists from the essays submitted. The essays will be judged on the following basis:

A) Understanding of the Subject 35%
B) Originality 35%
C) Adhering to the Topic 15%
D) Composition, neatness and grammar 15%

Two Junior class finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges for the trip to Washington, D.C. Four Sophomore class finalists will be chosen for the C.Y.C.L.E. conference in Jefferson City. The winners will be announced no later than the first week of April.

Theses are all-expense paid trips provided by Farmers’ Electric Cooperative. Farmers’ Electric will provide all transportation, including the picking up and returning the student to his or her residence. Students will be picked up the afternoon of June 13 and returned to their home the evening of June 19.

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