My Year as Miss Lincoln: Hang Up and Drive!

Hello all!

Recently, I have been doing a lot of speaking to college and high school students about my platform, "Hang Up and Drive." I talked to several greek houses at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, as well as at Weslyan University. Last week I gave a seminar at the Nebraska DECA State Conference, and today, I spoke at my very own high school, Ralston! It has been great, spreading the word on such an important topic. I have had over 200 people sign the pledge not to text and drive and my goal is for that number to keep growing and growing as my year goes on!

Here I am speaking at a wonderful sorority at UNL, Alpha Phi! The girls were so attentive and respectful, I had a great time!

Last weekend, I had the awesome opportunity to give back to the organization that has given so much to me, DECA! I was invited to give a "Hang Up and Drive" seminar at the Nebraska State DECA Conference, and it was so wonderful to see all of the motivated, competitive, and professional high school students and to be able to speak to them on such an important topic!

I thought it was so cute that the DECA mascots finally got official DECA blazers!

Giving my seminar..

Here, I am explaining the activity the kids were about to do. I had them complete tasks while distracted by something else, to prove that it is hard to focus on more than one thing at a time!

Here I am with my official name tag that mentioned me as Miss Star City and it had an official "Presenter" tag on the bottom!

Every year, 2 scholarships are given at the State DECA Conference in my brother's memory. Here is my brother Ryan and I presenting the awards..

It was so great to be back at the State Conference!

Today, I went back to my home school of Ralston High School! I got to speak to all the the students as well as some of the teachers that I had in high school! It was really cool to be back and I was so excited to even have some of my old teachers sign the pledge not to text and drive!

Couldn't figure out how to flip this picture! But here I am on stage in the Ralston High School Auditorium!