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 Leadership Summit
Two high school juniors or seniors from CKEC’s service area will receive a $500 scholarship and attend the 2024 Oklahoma Electric Cooperative Leadership Summit at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds on March 17, 2025.
Community Programs
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
Energy Camp
A four day action packed adventure for eight-graders, Energy Camp helps develop leadership skills and promotes teamwork while teaching about cooperative enterprises, the rural electrification program and electrical safety.
Each year, CKEC sponsors four students to the camp, which will be held May 27 – May 30, 2025, at Canyon Camp near Hinton, Oklahoma.
While Energy Camp offers many traditional summer camp activities like swimming, hiking, basketball, and a ropes course, teens also have the unique opportunity to climb a utility pole, ride in the basket of a bucket truck, tour one of the largest electricity generating facilities in the state and watch a co-op crew at work. They’ll take home a new found confidence and a host of new friends-like minded peers from all over Oklahoma. Students currently enrolled in the eight grade within CKEC’s service territory are eligible to compete for a spot at Energy Camp. For more information visit www.CKenergy.coop
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!
