Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp

Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp, a weeklong event in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, engages participants in leadership activities with 100 other attendees from high schools in Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming.

Sumner-Cowley Electric sponsors one student to attend Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp, a week-long event in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, created with the goal of helping students develop speaking skills, engage in leadership activities, learn about democracy and the electric industry, in particular the cooperative business model.

Students take a gondola ride up Mt. Werner, make a side trip to Fish Creek Falls, and visit a variety of attractions in Steamboat Springs. Other trip highlights include a live raptor presentation, a dance, leadership and team building activities, an insider’s tour of Craig Power Station–the largest coal-fired electric generating plant in Colorado, and the Trapper Coal Mine.