Truckee Elementary Annual TDPUD Field Trip

Truckee Elementary 2nd graders take the long walk down the street to TDPUD every October for some educational fun with our Electric, Water and Conservation departments. We've hosted them for 3 years, and it's one of the most anticipated days of the year!

The kids rotate through three different stations, to learn about the different services we provide our community. The electric crew shows the kids how they climb poles and rappel from the line truck, and even gave all the kids a shot at raising an empty tool bag up the pole using a pulley. The water crew teaches the kids about our local water cycle, which involves mixing together Oreos, ice cream, gummy worms, and Sprite to demonstrate the different layers of our aquifer. Conservation has the kids work off all that energy from the sugar rush by playing games in our garden, like water leak tag.