Welcome to the Youth Tour Essay Contest of Callaway Electric Cooperative. Our 2021 contest is underway now. If you have questions, please email kthomas@callawayelectric.com or call us at 573-642-3326.

What is the Youth Tour?

Each year in January the Cooperative sponsors an essay contest for High School Juniors living in or attending school in Callaway Electric's service area (this includes Fulton, New Bloomfield, North Callaway and South Callaway High School). The top winners of the contest are typically awarded an all expense paid week long trip to Washington, D.C. In response to COVID-19, the 2021 DC trip will not be held. HOWEVER, we still encourage students to participate!

In lieu of the trip, we are offering some awesome scholarships along with an opportunity to connect with other Missouri Youth Leaders in a safe and fun environment. For this year's contest, six (6) finalists will be chosen. They will be interviewed via Zoom and three (3) top scoring candidates will each be awarded a $2000 scholarship and participation in the MO Youth Tour Leadership Activities. The remaining three candidates will each be awarded a $500 scholarship.

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2020 Youth Tour Winners! They were Delaney Moser of South Callaway HS, Jacob Moak of Fulton HS and Kaleigh Moore of North Callaway HS. With everything brought about by COVID-19, the 2020 winners were also unfortunately unable to travel to DC for the Youth Tour. They were instead awarded a $2000 scholarship toward their freshman year of college.

The remaining finalists of our 2020 contest were each awarded a $500 scholarship. Congratulations to Kendall Dillon, Kasey Dunnavant and Owen Vandeloecht, all of South Callaway HS.