He’s Ba-a-a-a-ck!

Louie the Lightning Bug Returns to Show Students How to be Safe around Electricity

TULSA, Okla., April 4, 2014 – There’s a Louie Alert being issued for Oklahoma as Louie the Lightning Bug prepares to bring his spring safety tour to elementary schools across the state.

Lights On For Louie – a multimedia safety program that actively engages students in learning what they and their families can do to be safe around electricity – begins its tour April 14 at elementary schools in Hobart and Ninnekah.  The presentations are sponsored by Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO).

Produced by The National Theatre for Children (NTC), Lights On For Louie incorporates a unique combination of interactive learning techniques to teach elementary school students about how electricity is made and used, and how to identify dangerous situations and ways to stay safe around electricity.

Performed by professional actors, the shows are action packed with high energy comedy and audience interaction.  Students then return to their classrooms to complete print activities and digital classroom games that further reinforce the electrical safety information illustrated by Louie and other characters from the show.

It’s the combination of live, interactive theater, student workbooks and educational games that makes this program so effective.

But the message doesn’t stop at the classroom door.  The students take what they’ve learned home and share it with their families, helping them build good electrical safety habits in the home.

Following the Hobart and Ninnekah presentations, LOFL will be in the McAlester area April 15 and 16 for shows at Hanna, Krebs, Haileyville and McAlester schools.  Those shows will be followed by presentations April 17 and 18 in Lawton and Cache.

More presentations may be added before the end of this school year.

PSO, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), is an electric utility company serving approximately 540,000 customers in 232 cities and towns in eastern and southwestern Oklahoma.  Based in Tulsa, PSO has 4,269 megawatts of generating capacity and is a significant provider of wind energy in the state.  News releases and other information about PSO can be found on the World Wide Web at PSOklahoma.com.