Hands-on learning makes a difference. We currently offer the following for students who live or go to school in our service area:

Hayden Bridge Water Filtration Plant Tour: Learn how water from the McKenzie River is filtered and purified before being delivered to home and businesses throughout the community. The tour takes about an hour, not including travel time and is best suited for middle and high school students. The minimum number on a tour is ten people. To keep everyone safe during classroom tours we require a one to four adult-to-student ratio. 

Leaburg Dam Tour: Students are fascinated to learn how we make electricity from falling water. This tour is a favorite field trip for many local schools. Many classrooms combine the trip with a visit to the Leaburg Fish Hatchery next door and stay for a picnic lunch in Lloyd Knox Park.  The tour takes 60 - 90 minutes and is perfect for elementary and middle school classes. Leaburg Dam is about 20 miles east of Springfield, so allow plenty of travel time.

Middle school students challenge their math and science skills as they design and build photovolatic powered cars. Each year hundreds of students spend a Saturday in early June seeing if their creation has what it takes to win first place.  

We love celebrating public power and we love reading. In the first week of October we combine the two with our Power Readers program. EWEB staff visit kindergarten classrooms to read a book about electricity and talk to kids about indoor and outdoor power safety. 

We also invite fifth grade students in the area to participate in an annual poster contest celebrating public power. 

Congratulations to the 2017 winning artists:

First: Elizabeth Johnston from O'Hara Catholic School
Second: Giani Alvez from Buena Vista Elementary
Third: Eli Brown from O'Hara Catholic School
Fourth: Ryan Pitts from Bertha Holt Elementary
Fifth (tie): Aria Virde from Meadow View School
Fifth (tie): Jael McKinnis from River Road Elementary