Bluebonnet

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is currently accepting applications for the Government-in-Action Youth Tour. This opportunity offers two high school students, juniors or seniors, in Bluebonnet's service area the chance to travel to Washington, D.C., to tour our nation’s capital. Students also visit the state Capitol, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and receive a $1,000 scholarship. The next tour is scheduled for June 11 - 19, 2023. With your ISD in Bluebonnet’s service area, you likely have students that qualify to apply for this incredible opportunity.

Please share this with any eligible students and encourage them to apply!

To be eligible for the Government-in-Action Youth Tour, students must:

  • Be in the 11th or 12th grade

  • Reside in the home of a parent or legal guardian who is a current Bluebonnet member with an active account and whose primary residence is within the outer boundaries of Bluebonnet’s service area (including city limits that are within those outer boundaries)

  • Participate in the tour to Washington, D.C., the Texas State Capitol and the Bullock Texas State History Museum, June 11 - 19, 2023

  • Submit a completed application form and brief video (limited to 5 minutes) by 5 p.m. Jan. 20, 2023.

  • Be prepared to attend a personal interview on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, at 6 p.m. at Bluebonnet’s headquarters, 155 Electric Ave., Bastrop, if selected as a finalist

For more information about Bluebonnet’s application process and to access the online application go to:

https://bluebonnet.coop/scholarships-youth-tour

To verify if a student resides in Bluebonnet’s Service Area, here’s a like to the service area map

https://bluebonnet.coop/service-area-map

The Government-in-Action Youth Tour, which is sponsored by the state’s electric cooperatives in conjunction with Texas Electric Cooperatives and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, sends select students on an all-expense-paid trip to the nation’s capital. In Washington, tour participants get to see with their own eyes sights they may have only experienced in history books or on television. In addition to visiting monuments, museums and historical sites that would be a part of any standard tour of the capital, the students also fulfill the ambition of then-U.S. Sen. Lyndon Johnson, who inspired the Youth Tour with his desire expressed in 1957 for young people to “actually see what the flag stands for and represents.”

For more information about actual tour activities, see Texas Electric Cooperatives website

https://texas-ec.org/youth-programs/government-in-action-youth-tour/