2025 Leadership Summit
Congratulations to CKEC’s 2025 Leadership Summit winners. Addison Linn of Anadarko High School and Tanner McAdoo of Ft. Cobb-Broxton High School attended the 2025 Leadership Summit hosted by the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives. Both Students were awarded a $500 scholarship from CKEC to recognize their dedication to leadership and community service.
Community Programs
Youth Tour 2025
Perhaps CKEC’s best-known and most anticipated youth program, Youth Tour offers high school juniors a week-long, all-expenses-paid educational trip to Washington, D.C. in June. Four deserving students travel with the Oklahoma delegation (70+ students) to our nation’s capital where they tour historic sites and national landmarks, meet Oklahoma’s congressional delegation and more. Youth Tour has earned a reputation as “a trip of a lifetime” among former participants.
Congratulations to CKEC’s 2025 Youth Tour Winners. These four students earned an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. and a $1,000 scholarship. Kaitlyn Knauss (Carnegie High School), Kodi Metz (Binger-Oney High School), Renner Rodriguez (Binger-Oney High School), and Lillian Roush (Arapaho-Butler High School)
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Runners-Up in the contest are Brian Brinkley (Burns Flat-Dill City High School), Haylee Thompson (Lookeba-Sickles High School), Samuel Lindsey (Cordell High School), and PiperRilee Sawatzky (Arapaho-Butler High School). The runners-up each earned a $1,000 scholarship.
This year’s trip is scheduled for June 13-19, 2025. The deadline to apply is February 3, 2025.
2025 Senior Scholarship
Congratulations to our 2025 senior scholarship winners!
Danni Brinkley – Arapaho-Butler High School
Brooke Clark – Mountain View-Gotebo
Border Dodd – Cordell
Chizm Kuykendall – Carnegie
Tanner McAdoo – Ft. Cobb-Broxton
Carley Meason – Cyril
Parker Price – Hydro-Eakly
Samantha Rother – Corn Bible Academy
Madison Savage – Fort Cobb-Broxton
Brylie Stocking – Lookeba-Sickles
Libby Stone – Anadarko
Gage Wright – Thomas Fay Custer
Energy Camp
A four day action packed adventure for eight-graders, Energy Camp helps develop leadership skills and promotes teamwork while teaching about cooperative enterprises, the rural electrification program and electrical safety.
Each year, CKEC sponsors four students to the camp, which will be held May 27 – May 30, 2025, at Canyon Camp near Hinton, Oklahoma.
While Energy Camp offers many traditional summer camp activities like swimming, hiking, basketball, and a ropes course, teens also have the unique opportunity to climb a utility pole, ride in the basket of a bucket truck, tour one of the largest electricity generating facilities in the state and watch a co-op crew at work. They’ll take home a new found confidence and a host of new friends-like minded peers from all over Oklahoma. Students currently enrolled in the eight grade within CKEC’s service territory are eligible to compete for a spot at Energy Camp. For more information visit www.CKenergy.coop
Special Olympics
One of the most gratifying and fulfilling efforts that CKEC participates in is the Special Olympics. If you have never served as a "hugger" at the finish line, then you can't begin to imagine the overwhelming joy of helping a young person with physical disabilities. Cameras can not adequately capture the sheer determination on the faces of those challenged by life's unfairness as they cross the finish line.
Whether in the first place or last, it is a look that can only be captured in the heart. Our very own Keith DeVaughan of the Member Services Dept. travels to Stillwater, OK, every year to not only encourage his own son but to share the accomplishments of other participants. Way to go, Keith!
