Uncasville, Connecticut– Organizers wanted to make it clear the 328 th Miss America competition isn’y your grandmother’s beauty pageant – and their winner did just that on Thursday. Virginia biochemist Camille Schrier won the crown just minutes after wowing the crowd with science.
Dressed in a lab coat, she gave a colorful chemistry demonstration of the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.
Schrier, a – year-old Pennsylvania native, said she hopes to “break stereotypes about what it means to be a Miss America in by being a “woman of science” who is true to herself.
“I’m not the beauty queen,” she said. “I’m the brand ambassador for this organization and I’m more than just someone with a crown on my head.”
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