Saturday, June 18, 2022
Saturday evening students and their parents met in Des Moines, IA at the Holiday Inn where orientation took place. Students and parents listened to a presentation about the logistics and the rules of the trip. Parents then said goodbye and the students began getting to know one another by playing ice breaker games. Some of the ice breaker games included Youth Tour Bingo, I Didn't Know That and putting together puzzles with their assigned travel groups.
Students then took advantage of the opportunity to write a letter to veterans who will soon receive the note on an upcoming Honor Flight. All students wrote at least one and some of the kids even wrote two or three!
The night ended with the formation of the D.C. Munchie Cooperative. Each student paid $1 to join and bought a $5 punch card to be able to begin buying snacks from the cooperative. Additionally, a delegating committee hired a board of directors, which was then followed by the placement of a CEO, who was voted in by all of the members of the newly formed cooperative.
This cooperative is run by the students for the week where it provides them the chance to buy snacks at a substantially lower price than normal. This cooperative program also gives students insight into how an electric cooperative runs and serves its member-owners back home in Iowa, and across the U.S.
- Hollie Nelson
2022 Iowa Youth Tour Intern
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