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Our Washington Youth Tour is headed out for an amazing trip! In 2024, our cooperative students will tour the Washington Monument, the US Capitol building, the Lincoln Memorial, and the National Cathedral. Students will also have an opportunity to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian, and visit with our state representatives.

Nine area high school students earned all-expense-paid trips to the nation’s capital last week at the 42nd annual Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC) Foundation Washington Youth Tour competition. Presentations were made to more than 900 students about the tour, in the fall. Wednesday, November 8, the final 15 qualifiers assembled at the Multi-Purpose Room on the Benson school campus …

Scholarships totaling $12,000 are being awarded to the 15 area high school juniors who have been named to the 40th annual Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC) Foundation Washington Youth Tour. Winning students will receive $1,000 scholarships and finalists in the competition will receive $500 awards. Students representing six Cochise County high schools and one home school student were named …

For more information contact Eric Petermann: (520)384-5510 (520)507-2693 For Immediate Release SSVEC to send local students on all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., in June Benson –  An all-expense-paid trip to the nation’s capital, courtesy of the Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative Foundation, awaits nine area high school juniors next June after the 40th annual Washington Youth Tour Finals competition in …