2023 Cooperative Leadership Camp Dates: June 26-30, 2023
Scholarship Application Deadline: April 30, 2023
All student attending the full week of camp are also eligible to apply for the $1,000 Jim Graham Cooperative Leadership College Scholarship their senior year of high school.
The annual Cooperative Leadership Camp in Laurel Hill, NC is designed to provide an exciting experience for students, concentrating on the cooperative way of doing business in a free enterprise society. The camp helps students develop leadership skills and qualities in our future community leaders, while gaining a better understanding and appreciation for cooperatives.
Each year, the camp includes a ceremony recognizing the campers who demonstrate outstanding leadership qualities. Five campers are selected to receive Leadership Awards for their unique leadership abilities and receive an expense-paid trip to the National Institute on Co-op Education at Virginia Tech University.
Applicants must:
- Be a rising high school sophomore, junior, or senior,
- Be able to attend the entire leadership camp,
- Be willing to participate as well as utilize training following participation in the camp,
- Possess leadership potential,
- All applicants accepted without regard to race, color, religion or gender
Congratulations to our 2022 recipient – A’Mya Harmon, pictured 4th from the left. Roanoke Electric sponsored two more youths to attend the Cooperative Leadership Camp last summer – Braxton Williams and Tejas Juikar (not pictured).
Cooperative Leadership Camp Scholarship Application
Cooperative Leadership Camp is a full week overnight camp for High School students from across our state. Teens from all parts of the state are sponsored to attend for free by their local cooperative. We can take between 50-70 teens for the program for optimal success. The program is an experiential learning process where the teens build a worker/owner tee shirt cooperative, elect a board, hire a general manager, design and produce tee shirts. They learn about leadership, governance, and the 7 cooperative business principles during the entire process.
The teams put together the 7 Principles Infomercials to perform, have a leadership awards banquet night and learn what it means to be a part of the greater good that cooperatives offer. The week also contains workshops from other cooperative industries including the agriculture sector, credit unions, retail, and utilities. The objectives are to educate, connect and promote the cooperative way of doing business and provide a fun learning experience for the teams that are selected to attend.