Many national and Minnesota cooperatives help promote Rachel’s Challenge, a program designed to honor the memory of Rachel Scott, a young woman killed in the tragic Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.

From the Rachel’s Challenge website:

“Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Her acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries have become the foundation for one of the most life-changing school programs in America.

Powerful video/audio footage of Rachel’s life and the Columbine tragedy holds students spell-bound during a one hour school presentation that motivates them to positive change in the way they treat others.”

Connexus Energy will sponsor several Rachel’s Challenge events in September, and Dakota Electric has also sponsored several programs in its service territory.