Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services Sponsors Essay Competition | Business

Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services’ (FMCS) Fifth Annual Youth Tour Competition is in full swing, attracting participation from 11th graders living in the FMCS service territory.

Eligible students from area schools lying within the FMCS service territory are invited to write a 500 word essay on this topic.  Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services is celebrating 75 years in business.  If you could go back in time, describe the role you would have liked to play in our cooperative’s history and why.  Also, provide an example of what you would do to shape our energy future.  A panel of outside judges has been selected and will review the essays and completed application forms.

Participants and family members will be invited to attend a banquet on March 15th where they will meet with the judges.  Two winners will be announced that evening.  Students must be present to be eligible.

Cooperatives throughout the United States participate in the event, and the local winners will join their counterparts from coast-to-coast in Washington, D.C. from June 16 – 21, 2012.    

To review photos and videos, check out NRECA’s website at http://youthtour.coop.

TIME IS RUNNING SHORT:  DEADLINE FOR THIS EXCITING EVENT IS

MARCH 1, 2012.  APPLICANTS MUST BE MEMBERS OF FREEBORN-MOWER COOPERATIVE SERVICES.

For application packet and details regarding this contest, students and/or parents may contact Dawn Schroeder at FMCS (507)373-6421 or 1-800-734-6421 x3104 or dschroeder@fmcs.coop.  Applications can also be found at www.fmcs.coop.

Freeborn Mower Cooperative Services is a member-owned and member-controlled electric cooperative celebrating 75 years of delivering retail electric power and energy solutions to its nearly 6,000 member-owners in Freeborn and Mower Counties.  We are a Touchstone Energy® cooperative and a member-owner in the Dairyland Power system of electric cooperatives that generates and transmits reliable electric power in 62 counties of four states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois).