SVEC In The Community

August 2024

Youth Tour Students Visit Washington

SVEC was proud to sponsor two local students for the National Rural Electric Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. This year’s representatives were Alyssa Jones, from Lafayette High School, and Whitton Musgrove, from Suwannee Valley High School.

They joined students from around the country in visiting landmarks like the White House and U.S. Capitol, monuments along the National Mall, and the Smithsonian’s American history and natural history museums.

Alyssa was particularly moved by the Holocaust Museum and enjoyed having the opportunity to meet students from other states.

“A lot of these kids were from rural areas and grew up in similar communities,” she says. “You might think you’re the only one living in a town with one red light and going through certain things in our country. And then you realize these people from all over the nation are living just like me.”

For Whitton, it was a chance to clarify her goals for the future and see herself in the places she was visiting.

“I always tell people that I want to be the first female governor of a state that has not had one before. And obviously, you have to work yourself up to being there,” she says. “So going to D.C. this time I kind of set my mindset to let me see myself there. It definitely helped me realize anything is possible.”