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ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES

Southwest TN Electric Membership Corporation is giving High School Junior English students in Chester, Haywood, Madison and Tipton Counties an opportunity to exercise their writing skills and win some valuable prizes. Tina Morris Communications & Community Outreach Specialist

Member

• 50,000 Members
• 4,000-Miles of Line
• 11-Counties
• 86,000-Poles
• 23-Substations
• 5-Offices

– Covington – Brownsville – Jackson – Henderson – Atoka

CO-OP HISTORY

Member

TENNESSEE’S ELECTRIC CO-OPS

MEMBER OWNED AND REGULATED

Electric co-ops are owned by the people they serve, not by

• government. Members elect board members to represent

their interests and set policy and procedures for the co-op.

NOT

• FOR-PROFIT

Co-ops exist to serve their communities instead of

• shareholders. They distribute and sell energy at cost and

invest any excess revenue back into the electric system.

IMPROVE COMMUNITIES

Keeping the lights on. Recruiting new industry. Educating the leaders of tomorrow. Electric co-ops take seriously their responsibility to improve lives in their communities.

TENNESSEE’S ELECTRIC CO-OPS

ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

CREATIVE WRITING AND SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION

WHAT YOU GET RULES AND RESOURCES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES HEAR FROM PAST WINNERS

WHAT YOU CAN GET

• All-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C.

June 13-20, 2018

• Southwest TEMC Annual Meeting in Jackson

August 9, 2019

• TECA Annual Meeting in Nashville

November 2019

• NRECA Annual Meeting in Nashville

February 2020

WHAT YOU CAN GET

WHAT YOU CAN GET

The TN Magazine is distributed to 50,000 +/- households in West Tennessee

• RECOGNITION
• School
• TN Magazine
• Website
• Social Media
• Annual Meeting
• State wide

• Robert McCarty Memorial Scholarship

$1,000 | $2,000 | $3,000

• Cooperative

Youth Ambassador Scholarship

$10,000

WHAT YOU CAN GET

WHAT YOU CAN GET

Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, a top ranked private Christian university, offers 125 programs of study and is a proud supporter of TN WYT.

Union University offers the WYT 2018 trip winners:

24 - $4K per year scholarships 1 - $10K per year scholarship

www.uu.edu

• Connections with

– Politicians – CEO’s – Business Leaders – Your peers across the state and nation

WHAT YOU CAN GET

Students speak with Congressman David Kustoff

Proud Youth Tour Alumnus

• The top 14 papers from across the STEMC service

area will be interviewed

– 7 will win the trip to DC – 7 will win $75

WHO ?

WHO WILL WIN??

HEAR FROM PAST WINNERS

Trevor Sellers

Brighton High School

Devin Williams

Munford High School

Breanna Sanders

North Side High School

Kerrington Peoples

Liberty T ech Magnet High School

HEAR FROM PAST WINNERS

Karsen Neal

Haywood Co. High School

Julia Smith

South Side High School

Alondra Cantero

JCM Early College High School

2018 WINNER from Covington High School

“Whatever reservations you could possibly have about writing that story or going on the trip, forget them! Believe us when we say, ‘IT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME’.”

Anna Nason

Covington High School

2018 WINNER Chester County Home School Student

“Entering the WYT Creative

Writing Contest was one of the greatest decisions of my life. The trip was spectacular, partly thanks to the great people I met."

Tate Cronin Chester County Home School

2018 WINNER Chester County Home School Student

In addition to winning an all expense paid trip to Washington D.C., Tate also won $200 for earning the highest score on his essay from among the 10 Southwest winners!! PLUS, he is also currently in the running for a $10,000 scholarship!!

Short Story 900 words or less typed & double-spaced

RULES AND RESOURCES

Write a short story describing how local electric co-ops connect their rural communities, improve lives across their service areas and providing safe, reliable, affordable energy.

RULES AND RESOURCES

RULES AND RESOURCES

50% 35% 15%

Judging Criteria

Theme and knowledge of subject Originality and creativity Grammar and composition

RULES AND RESOURCES

• 2017 Resource Booklet
• youthtour.tnelectric.org
• stemc.com
• Facebook
• YouTube

RULES AND RESOURCES

Contact information:

Tina Morris tmorris@stemc.com

WRITE THAT STORY!!

ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES