MiEnergy Cooperative announces Youth Tour winners

Ava Throndson of New Hampton & Brady Burke of Cresco will head to D.C.

Cresco, IA | Rushford, MN— Ava Throndson, a junior at New Hampton High School, and Brady Burke, a junior at Crestwood High School, won an educational-filled week of adventure in Washington D.C. as MiEnergy Cooperative’s Youth Tour Contest winners. Ava and Brady will be among a group of 1,900 students sponsored by electric cooperatives from across the country to take part in the Rural Electric Youth Tour June 17-23. 

The Youth Tour was inspired in 1957 by Lyndon Johnson, then a U.S. senator from Texas, when he called on electric cooperatives to send young people to Washington, “to see what the flag stands for and represents.”

The students will meet with state and federal legislators to get an up-close look at how our government works, 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, Iowa. Brady is the son of Sara Burke and Nick Burke, of Cresco, Iowa.