The local students attending this year's camp included two students from Muldrow School, Kaitlyn Kelton, daughter of Robin and Susan Kelton, and Raechel Ackerman, daughter of Debbie Ackerman, and two students from Sallisaw School, Derek Nation, son of Terry and Pam Nation, and E.J. Stacy, son of Mitchell Stacy and Teri Stacy.
The students were among 73 eighth-graders chosen from across the state to represent their local rural electric cooperative during the four days at Canyon Camp, just east of Hinton, cooperative officials said.
While at camp, the delegates attended sessions on energy, electrical safety and rural electric careers. They heard a presentation on "Life Before Electricity" and saw artifacts from a time before electricity was available to rural people. They elected their own manager and board of directors and operated a Coke & Candy Cooperative.
Other special activities of the four-day program included hands-on electrical demonstrations, such as pole-climbing and bucket truck rides from linemen, swimming, an energy battle tournament and a trip to Celebration Station for video games and go-carts. The campers also toured Western Farmers Power Plant, a generation and transmission cooperative in Anadarko, and Caddo Electric Cooperative, a distribution cooperative in Binger.
