New Hampton, Cresco Juniors Among Students Touring Washington D.C.

This year’s MiEnergy Cooperative’s Youth Tour Contest winners left over the weekend for an educational-filled adventure in Washington D.C. 

Junior students are headed to the nation’s capital from June 17th to June 23rd include Ava Throndson of New Hampton High School.

The trip to D.C. isn’t the only excursion this summer for the busy Throndson.

Brady Burke of Cresco-Crestwood High School is also among the some 1,900 students sponsored by electric cooperatives from across the country to take part in the Rural Electric Youth Tour, which was inspired in 1957 by Lyndon Johnson. Then a U.S. senator from Texas, Johnson 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.

Ava is the daughter of Eric and Stefanie Throndson of New Hampton. Brady is the son of Sara Burke and Nick Burke of Cresco.