Fourth Annual Girl Power Camp

Nearly 80 girls attended the fourth annual Girl Power Camp sponsored by the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives’ Lineman Training Center in Palmyra, Virginia. (Photo By: Jim Robertson/VMDAEC)

High school senior DehlilaRay Roop drills through a stump to simulate a utility pole with guidance from Milwaukee Tool representatives Bowman Howland and Sara Gardner. (Photo By: Jamie Rife/Rappahannock Electric Cooperative)

High schoolers simulate cross arm construction with a power drill in the pole yard of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives’ Lineman Training Center. Looking on is Allison Helleberg, a regional manager for Hilti North America. (Photo By: Jim Robertson/VMDAEC)

Hilti North America’s Quinn Corrado steadies a pole as a Girl Power camper readies it for cross arm construction. (Photo By: Jim Robertson/VMDAEC)

Girl Power campers learn the value of teamwork while attaching a cross arm to a pole. The activity was one of nine experiences, many of them hands-on, at the fourth annual Girl Power Camp. (Photo By: Jim Robertson/VMDAEC)

S&N Communications’ Joy Yount shows campers the intricacies of splicing fiber at the fourth annual Girl Power Camp. The demonstration was one of nine activities designed to show campers the array of trade career opportunities in the energy industry. (Photo By: Jim Robertson/VMDAEC)

A Girl Power camper shows there’s still a place for manual tools amid the world of battery-operated, hydraulic implements. (Photo By: Ginny Tyree/Central Virginia EC)

High school junior Cadie Ellinson visits the Southside Virginia Community College’s information booth to learn about its Power Line Worker Training Program. Chatting with Ellinson are SVCC’s Matt Dunn and Wanda Vaughan. (Photo By: Ginny Tyree/Central Virginia EC)