2025 Youth Delegate Program

DCEC’s 2025 Youth Delegate Program

BE A PART OF HISTORY! Seeking Youth Delegate Applicants for 2024!
          • Are you a junior in High School or a parent of a junior in High School?
          • Are you (or your junior-year child) interested in politics, law or environmental science? A utility field?
          • Are you interested in helping your community?
          • Would you enjoy visiting Washington DC on an all expense paid trip?
Then, this experience is for you!

This opportunity is to represent DCEC as a youth delegate in Washington D.C. at The Legislative Conference in April. This could lead to another opportunity to represent the entirety of New York’s Rural Electric Co-Ops at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) 2026 conference in Nashville, TN. The program connects the young minds in rural America with one another and political leaders in congress and senate. If making friends, learning about your community, implementing change and providing insight into what your view of the future is…Then, this opportunity is for you!

Applications are due February 14th, 2025 (interviews taking place February 25, 2025)

The Legislative Conference is held April 27 - 30th, 2025 in Washington, DC

HERE is a pamphlet 2023's Youth Delegate, Erin Coppersmith, created

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

· Be a son/daughter of a member of DCEC

· Be in their junior (11th grade) year

· Participate in extra-curricular activities and community service

· Be available to participate in DCEC's 81st Annual Meeting

APPLICATION PROCESS

· Complete and submit the application CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION

· Submit a one-page student essay describing yourself

· Submit a letter of recommendation from a teacher or administrator

· Submit a copy of your family’s DCEC electric bill

· Once applications are submitted, a remote or in-person interview will be scheduled for Tuesday, February 25, 2025 between 5:00 - 6:00pm