Youth Tour 2025
Perhaps CKEC’s best-known and most anticipated youth program, Youth Tour offers high school juniors a week-long, all-expenses-paid educational trip to Washington, D.C. in June. Four deserving students travel with the Oklahoma delegation (70+ students) to our nation’s capital where they tour historic sites and national landmarks, meet Oklahoma’s congressional delegation and more. Youth Tour has earned a reputation as “a trip of a lifetime” among former participants.
This year’s trip is scheduled for June 13-19, 2025. The deadline to apply is February 3, 2025.
2025 Senior Scholarship
2024 Senior Scholarship Winners
CKEC is pleased to announce the recipients of twelve $1,000 scholarship for 2024. The program is open to any graduating senior who attends high school in our service territory. Students were asked to submit an essay. Congratulations to these students on a job well done! We wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Abbigail Birch – Gracemont
Creek Williams – Weatherford
Ellie Willard – Lookeba-Sickles
Grace Gore – Taloga
Hudson Squires – Hobart
Jenna Holt – Hobart
Kate Gabreal – Hammon
Kennedy Clark – Minco
Kenzli Locke – Lookeba-Sickles
Kiersten Bradshaw – Anadarko
Madison Church – Canute
MaKynzie Morris – Hobart
Community Programs
Energy Camp
You and an eighth-grade buddy could win a trip to Youth Power Energy Camp this summer.
Energy Camp focuses its leadership qualities and learning opportunities on the great outdoors. A four day stay in the beautiful Canyon Camp area east of Hinton with day trips to some of the finest and most interesting places in Oklahoma. Eighth-grade students who are just beginning to understand the need for great leaders are what we look for to attend Energy Camp.
Each year, CKenergy Electric Cooperative joins Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives and electric cooperatives from across the state in sponsoring the Youth Power Energy Camp at Camp Canyon near Hinton, OK. The camp slated for May 28-May 31, 2024, is designed to help students develop leadership skills while having lots of fun.
While at the camp, the teens attend sessions on energy, electrical safety, and rural electric careers. They also elect their own board of directors and operate a coke and candy cooperative. Other special activities include hands-on electrical demonstrations, pole-climbing and bucket truck rides, a ropes course, swimming, an energy battle tournament, and a trip to Celebration Station for video games and go-cart rides.
This year the essay topic, “What I would miss most without electricity,” must be submitted by a team of two eighth grade students currently attending school within CKEC’s service territory. The essay must be at least 100 words in length. Essays will be judged on content, style, and accuracy. Two teams will be selected from the submitted essays to represent the cooperative at Energy Camp. CKEC covers all expenses related to the camp.
Submit the completed essay and cover sheet to Lisa Willard, CKenergy P.O. Box 70, Binger, OK 73053.
Contest Rules:
The teams of students must currently be classified as eighth-grade students attending a school in CKEC’s service territory. The students will be required to write an essay of at least 100 words in length on the topic, “What I would miss most without electricity.” Essays are to be written legibly or typed, double spaced on only one side of the paper.
Attach a cover page which includes name, birthdate, email, parent’s name, address, phone number, school, and shirt size.
1. Essays will be judged on the basis of knowledge of subject, 40%; originality, 30%; composition, 15%; grammar, spelling and punctuation, 15%.
2. Deadline for essays is April 12, 2024.
3. Dates for the 2024 Youth Power Energy Camp are May 28-May 31, 2024.
Special Olympics
One of the most gratifying and fulfilling efforts that CKEC participates in is the Special Olympics. If you have never served as a "hugger" at the finish line, then you can't begin to imagine the overwhelming joy of helping a young person with physical disabilities. Cameras can not adequately capture the sheer determination on the faces of those challenged by life's unfairness as they cross the finish line.
Whether in the first place or last, it is a look that can only be captured in the heart. Our very own Keith DeVaughan of the Member Services Dept. travels to Stillwater, OK, every year to not only encourage his own son but to share the accomplishments of other participants. Way to go, Keith!
