Miss Cadee Nelson, sophomore at Wagner Community School, has been selected as one of two area students to represent Charles Mix Electric Association on the National Rural Electric (NRECA) Youth Tour. The all-expense-paid trip to Washington DC offers students the opportunity to develop leadership skills while learning more about the workings and history of our government, the electric industry, and the cooperative business model. Attendees will also tour many of the historic sites and monuments that grace our nation’s capital.

Cadee will join with approximately 1,800 students from across the United States on this year’s tour, scheduled for June 17-23. Cadee is one of two local students who qualified for the educational trip, and will attend along with Miss Piper Rasmussen of Platte/ Geddes High School. The pair will have the opportunity to meet with and shadow one of SD’s elected officials.

Cadee is the daughter of Mark and Laura Nelson, Lake Andes.

The Youth Tour, which had been offered by NRECA every year since the late 1950s, resumes this year after an absence during the height of the global health pandemic. Charles Mix Electric is the Touchstone Energy electric cooperative serving the rural areas of Charles Mix county.