Mountain View-Birch Tree High School Senior Haylee Drexler and Winona High School Senior Alyssa Barkley were chosen as the delegates for Missouri Electric Cooperative CYCLE (Cooperative Youth Conference and Leadership Experience) program sponsored by Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative.
Alyssa signed the banner, accepting Rachel’s Challenge, a program encouraging students to start a chain reaction in their community, school, church and/or world.
Students visited the Missouri State Penitentiary and even got to see the gas chamber where 40 inmates were put to death between 1937-1989. Haylee (standing) got a picture with a friend she made during the conference.
Students had the opportunity to sit on the House floor and debate a bill they agreed on during their team breakout sessions the day before. They were allowed to discuss and ask questions through the microphones just as our Representatives do during the legislative process. They also sat at the seats on the House floor.
