2010 Touchstone Energy Camp Flyer
2010 Touchstone Energy Camp Application - due February 19, 2010
Touchstone Energy Camp for 6th Grade Boys and Girls
Each year Tipmont sponsors students to attend Touchstone Energy Camp at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, IN. Sixth-grade boys and girls are eligible to apply for the opportunity. The students’ agenda will combine traditional outdoor camp activities with environmental education, electrical safety practices and cooperative business education.
“This is a great way for students to learn about the role of electric cooperatives in their community. On top of that, they get to experience all the fun of camp,” said Jim Clark, Energy Advisor at Tipmont.
The Touchstone Energy Camp program was developed by a committee of electric cooperative employees from around the state of Indiana, and is funded in part by Indiana’s Rural Electric Cooperatives, Touchstone Energy members, and local sponsors.
Information and applications will be available at local schools or at www.tipmont.org. For more information, please contact Sasha Clements or Jim Clark at 800-726-3953.
2009 Touchstone Energy Camp
This year 108 sixth grade students were able to combine education and fun while attending the 2009 Touchstone Energy Camp.
The camp, held June 3-6 at YMCA Camp Tecumseh near Brookston, Ind., provided sixth graders from all around the state a chance to learn about basic electricity, electric safety, renewable energy and the role of an electric cooperative, while still enjoying traditional camp activities including horseback riding, archery, swimming, and leadership skill development.
Tipmont REMC, a Touchstone Energy cooperative, sent 9 students to the annual camp program. Local student participants included Madison Lowe from Crawfordsville, Karah Hummel from Darlington, Leonard Halascsak and Ian Macias from Lafayette, Sarah McCord from New Richmond, Kenneth Rusk from Waynetown, and Alexis Monroe, Benjamin Kuhn, and Nicholas Ensinger from West Lafayette. Campers were accompanied by Tipmont employee chaperones Lisa Thomas, Curly Jasheway, Tara Walters, Jim Clark, and Sasha Clements
This is the seventh year that Indiana’s rural electric cooperatives have sponsored the program. A highlight of the camp was a “live line” demonstration that showed the danger lurking in live power lines and provided instructions on what to do if they ever encounter a power line in a car accident or other situation. Campers also found out what it’s like to be a lineworker as they climbed a pole and donned heavy safety equipment used by lineworkers to keep safe while working around electricity.
“The students left camp with an appreciation for the work of co-op employees,” explained Tim McCarthy, CEO of Tipmont REMC. “Not only did they get to ride in a bucket truck, they had to perform difficult tasks like removing a cotter pin from a coupling while wearing safety gloves, or using a lineworker’s tools to grasp an eyehook. Co-op employees perform tasks like these every day, in all kinds of weather and conditions.”
Tipmont REMC is your Touchstone Energy Partner. Touchstone Energy is a national alliance of local, consumer-owned electric cooperatives providing high standards of service to customers large and small. More than 660 Touchstone Energy cooperatives in 46 states are delivering energy and energy solutions to more than 30 million customers every day. Touchstone Energy cooperatives serve their members with integrity, accountability, innovation and a longstanding commitment to communities.