New Hampton, Cresco Juniors Score Free Trip to D.C.
A pair of northeast Iowa high school juniors have won an educational-filled week of adventure in Washington D.C.
This year’s MiEnergy Cooperative’s Youth Tour Contest winners include Ava Throndson of New Hampton High School and Brady Burke of Cresco- Crestwood High School. Throndson and Burke will be among a group of 1,900 students sponsored by electric cooperatives from across the country to take part in the Rural Electric Youth Tour June 17-23.
Ava is the daughter of Eric and Stefanie Throndson of New Hampton. Brady is the son of Sara Burke and Nick Burke of Cresco.
The Youth Tour was inspired in 1957 by Lyndon Johnson, then a U.S. senator from Texas, when he called on electric cooperatives to send young people to Washington, “to see what the flag stands for and represents.” Students will meet with state and federal legislators along with experiencing the monuments, museums and history of our nation’s capital.
Last year, New Hampton’s Elaina Rosonke won a free trip to Washington, D.C., the first MiEnergy Cooperative Youth Tour Contest after COVID forced the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 tours.
MiEnergy Cooperative provides electricity to more than 18,700 members in southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa including Chickasaw, Howard and Winneshiek counties.
