Plugged In: Youth and Community Engagement
Let us share the love of electricity with your students!
Request AVECC's involvement in a project via media@avecc.com.
Safety First
Making Accident's Disappear - Magic Show
Did you know we provide this magic show for FREE to all schools? Contact Magician Scott Davis to schedule a magic show at your school:
High Voltage Safety Trailer
Live demonstration answering these questions:
- How fast does electricity travel?
- Will a tree conduct electricity?
- What should you do if a power line falls on your car?
Activity Book
Learn about energy safety by completing an assortment of short written activities!
STEM - In the Classroom
Career Day - Speakers/Tabling
The Cooperative offers a wide variety of career opportunities. Industry Professionals and experts may visit students and share personal insights about their careers.
Circuits Demonstration - Speakers/Hands-On Activity
Students can use their hands, knowledge, and imagination to build and operate their own circuits.
Learn to assemble components such as a battery, wires, bulb, switches, and buzzers.
Activities for Younger Students
Touch-a-Truck
Opportunity for children to have personal bucket truck experience, see line equipment, and interact with a lineworker.
Paper Activities
- "Thank You Lineworker" Coloring Sheet
- Outdoor Safety Coloring Sheet
- Power Line Safety Decoder
- General Safety Decoder
- Electrical Safety Word Search
- Safe Digging Crossword/Coloring
- Help Sparky - Maze
Prestigious Opportunities for Senior High Students
Youth Tour
Youth Tour is a leadership-based opportunity for students to connect with their community and cooperative. The selected students will represent AVECC as they join students from electric cooperatives across the nation in Washington, D.C. for the opportunity to meet Arkansas’ congressional delegation, visit historic sites, learn about the workings of their nation’s government and learn how electric cooperatives' impact our rural communities.
Students selected will receive a $500 college scholarship from AVECC as well as an opportunity to earn a $5,000 scholarship from the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas.
$2,500 Senior Scholarship
Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corporation accepts applications each spring for the AVECC Senior Scholarship. High school seniors whose parents or guardians are AVECC members may apply for one of two $2,500 scholarships that the cooperative will award this year.
Youtube Resources
"Our Electric Neighborhood"
Learn about things you can and can't do around electricity with real life examples. Quit questions are available at the end of each chapter.
"Never Touch a Power Line"
Many short videos such as this one, teaching short but valuable safety lessons.
"A Day in the Life of a Serviceman"
"Ride along" with AVECC serviceman, Zach Pettis. Zach views his job as a duty and a calling to serve the River Valley.