MOULTRIE, Ga. — Colquitt EMC is accepting applications from area high school juniors to select two students to represent the co-op as delegates for the Washington Youth Tour. The week-long once-in-a-lifetime leadership trip offers participants the opportunity to experience U.S government and U.S. history up-close while having fun, making new friends, and gaining leadership skills.

Colquitt EMC’s delegates will join more than 110 teens from other EMCs across Georgia to represent the state during the 2019 Washington Youth Tour to be held June 13-20, 2019.

The fast-paced, high-energy program is designed to give students a taste of democracy in action, expose them to the nation’s rich history through visits to national monuments and museums, and encourage students to become politically aware, according to a press release from Colquitt EMC.

The leadership tour begins in Georgia where students get to know each other before boarding an airplane and flying to Washington, D.C. where they connect with more than 1,800 students from across the country. Plans are in the works to cruise down the Potomac River; lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery; meet with Georgia’s U.S. senators and representatives; take photos outside the White House; and tour the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States Capitol, Mount Vernon and the National Cathedral.  

Students will visit memorials honoring Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington; Martin Luther King Jr.; World War II; the Korean and Vietnam Veterans memorials; and watch the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps and the Silent Drill Platoon perform at the Marine Memorial (Iwo Jima statue) as well as spend time at the Smithsonian, Newseum and Holocaust Museums.

Applications are available at any of the Colquitt EMC offices or www.colquittemc.com. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2019.