Saving the World, one queen at a time

Last year, Laura Nguyen (pictured on left, with her escort after NAM's formal wear competition) compete in National American Miss for the first time ever and in her words, " it was the most amazing inspirational pageant system in the world." Since then, Laura has continued to make a difference!

Gretchen Rose and Laura Nguyen from Pennsylvania are the founders of "saving the world, one queen at a time." The organization is based directly towards pageant titleholders, encouraging them to help save our planet!

Both Lauren and Gretchen will be at the Pennsylvania Open Calls, collecting used water bottles ( including hairspray bottles and other plastics) to recycle these products! Also, these go-getters will be holding short educational sessions showing girls how to DIY - ecofriendly hairspray!!!

But, what really inspired these 2 girls to make a difference? Well, Laura sums it up best. Check out what she had to say:

"National American Miss a.k.a the most amazing inspirational pageant system in the world!! Ask any girl who has competed in NAM and they will all say it was an experience that changed there lives. Well I (Laura) only competed in NAM for one year and already could go one days taking about it! NAM is basically a pageant organization that is based on building confidence in girls and making future leaders! When Gretchen and I first came up with the idea to go to local pageants and teach girls about being green the first and only pageant organization that came to my head was of course NAM! We thought about other pageant systems but NAM was the only one that we could really make a big impact in!"