Grace Stanke is the current Miss America and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied nuclear engineering. She is an advocate for clean energy and inspiring the next generation of engineers. During her year as Miss America, she is traveling the country using her national platform to advocate for “Clean Energy – Cleaner Future.”
Encouraging worldwide change for clean, zero-carbon emission energy sources, Miss Stanke emphasizes the benefits of nuclear power and seeks to dispel the myths around nuclear energy while inspiring the next generation of female scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. “In addition to helping change public perception of nuclear energy and technology, I hope to inspire youth, especially young girls, to explore STEM and to see that going into these fields, including nuclear engineering, is an option for them,” she notes.
Miss Stanke will be leading a session on clean energy at Experience POWER Week, taking place August 14–17, 2023, in Savannah, Georgia. During this talk, titled “Clean Energy, Cleaner Future – Inspiring a New Generation of Engineers,” she will discuss the importance of inspiring the next generation of engineers to pursue careers in clean energy. She will explore the challenges and opportunities facing the clean energy industry and how we can ensure that we have the talent we need to build a cleaner future. She will also discuss her own journey as a young woman in STEM and how she has overcome challenges to achieve her dreams.
About Experience POWER
Experience POWER Week is the intimate, solutions-driven event where electricity generators meet to collaborate with energy leaders across multiple verticals to overcome disruptions to ensure a reliable energy future. The event is designed to bring the pages of POWER magazine to life and is made up of three conferences: Distributed Energy Conference, Electric Power Insights, and HydrogeNext. Since there is not a “one-size-fits-all” answer when it comes to efficient, reliable, safe, and resilient power generation, Experience POWER was created to deliver on all aspects of electric power generation from traditional power sources to distributed generation solutions and the role of hydrogen on the path to decarbonization. Learn more at: experience-power.com.