Miss Vermont has a talent for creating eruptions at Miss America 2016

[@granfabrica]

"Try it at a friend's home!"

[@xtiananana]

So did The View not mock chemists? strange... as a fellow science geek and lab tech student drawing blood every day and interacting with patients I feel like this is more powerful than strutting around on a stage singing or playing a violin... sure they take talent, but smarts is also a talent that should be recognized. These classes are HARD!

[@maldar]

What the naysayers don't understand is that she is showing that there is more to her than a pretty face. This also helps girls understand that they can enter the S.T.E.M. fields. Sure it is not the most impressive demonstration, but the easiest for the time allowed and to clean up for the next act.

[@maldar]

+serge12351 So Science teachers around the world are also stupid since they use this same demonstration in engage their students? *shakes head*

[@416mcp]

+serge12351 better than some mediocre singer singing a song

[@AllRequired]

Kelley Johnson went it all one better: scrubs, stethoscope, and utter seriousness.

[@tmrvica1225]

I think this is awesome! Thank you for thinking outside the box!!

[@h3runs]

kudos to her for doing something different.

[@adamvogel4441]

God I feel like I'm sitting in a first grade science class

[@RudigerVT]

This is so flipping great. I went to--literally--Pageant U (3 Miss Americas; countless state-level and top-10 winners). Yes, it's an alternative reality, but she's just amazing. I couldn't be prouder to be a Vermonter from Oklahoma. Alayna is just terrific.

[@EmilyVitori]

Gods forbid a contestant actually tries to use the pageant as a way to encourage girls to do more with their lives than strut around in a bathing suit. When a woman actually does something positive it's irresistible bait for the douchebag TROLLS who have nothing better to do with their pathetic lives than find a way to put her down.

[@smailmail2667]

I would go to class every day if she was my teacher

[@ItsJustLisa]

I love this! Permission to be brainy AND beautiful! If ip this gets more young girls thinking about exploring STEM careers or even just STEM interests, then she succeeded. Pretty good for a 2 1/2 minute time limit.

[@Alicendre]

@Gary DeBlasio she has two bachelors of science and is working on her PhD. But if you're that brainy, do come up with a showy chemistry demonstration that takes less than 90 seconds and requires more intellect.

[@Alicendre]

@Gary DeBlasio and yet I don't see you getting a PhD.

[@Alicendre]

@Gary DeBlasio you're an idiot if you don't think academic work requires talent. Keep promoting anti-intellectualism.

[@Alicendre]

@Gary DeBlasio clearly the people who are actually in charge disagree :^)

[@TheAlps36]

@@Alicendre Not to mention it has to pass all the health and safety regulations

[@roflcopter4388]

WOW... I did this experiment in grade 3.

[@clipsofmma]

Whatt Miss VA did the exact same thing lmao

[@clss3257]

Yea but Miss VA had a better presentation. And Miss VT, she talked too much 😂

[@iRahRahWebShow]

Honestly, I wouldn't consider this a talent. Being a chemist, I feel anyone is able to do what she did. But, still it is different than the rest.

[@maldar]

+Corey Turpin As a chemist, what would you have been able to explain and do in 90 secs. Sure this is easy, but it helps to show girls that there are women in the STEM professions.

[@iRahRahWebShow]

+maldar she really didnt explain much. but again i said it was unique and different and it worked.

[@serge12351]

+maldar lol as if she didnt have weeks to prepare? youre an idiot.

[@maldar]

+serge12351 I didn't say anything about preparing, I mentioned the time she was allotted to explain and demonstrate. Please, tell us what you would have done serge, that you could do in 90 secs. Please upload a video of you performing said act so we all can see your skills.

[@samanthabennison8942]

+maldar BURN! haha I agree with you Maldar, she's an impressive woman

[@sabyekoedthawee3793]

Amazing

[@hammond1994]

THIS is better than the old contests.

[@AllRequired]

The contestant that sets science to song will score some serious cash.

[@ryantrench]

Can't stop laughing lmao

[@manga12]

well I like this she looks pretty and like she is straight out of one of the old musical numbers in the old movie musicals they used to make or the old shows when they would sing and dance, like the old mickey mouse club or your hit parade you know one of those kinds of variety shows, that is with that sparkly lab gown and sparkly atom on the one side of her chest.

[@LNatureblush]

Awesome!

[@pisforpearl]

she needs to make a youtube channel to join the ranks of CrazyRussianHacker and Nurdrage

[@sdbailey7595]

When she put her glasses on, I was thinking, "I so wish she would say, Welcome to my la-bor-atory- where safety is number 1 priority".

[@robdillenger4763]

I liked it, but her intro was too long. Should've skipped to 0:54 without the lengthy explanation of "what science is." the demonstration was simple but performed with plenty of flair, pouring catalysts with both hands at opposite ends of the table and moving toward the center. and I loved, "don't try this at home... try it at a friend's home!" It's performance science. Like Bill Nye, but not as sexy (Bill rocks his bow tie too well, sorry.) MUCH better then "I'm going to sing the national anthem*" or some stupid "dance" that guys with prosthetic legs could do. *Ms. Georgia's Opera was a legitimate talent.

[@diosundoro5019]

OMG, Miss America 2020 copied this performance

[@phillyjawn174]

And 4 years later same talent wins the crown

[@sarahbaker3196]

That's my family friends cousin isn't she amazing

[@MikeSmith74653]

WOW!

[@xXx-un3ie]

hahahaha she stands right in the emitting gas :D

[@laurenkathleen2221]

Elias Kechter It's just steam...

[@m.a.6136]

LOVE

[@petercordeiro7947]

I think this demonstration was also done on The Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon got revenge on Kripke in his lab for distorting his voice with helium.

[@joenavan927]

She did it first!

[@davidmanjhu]

Miss Virginia was here

[@crystallocklear5627]

Is she Miss Vermont 2016, sounds the same , same exact performance ..same person I think

[@robertbonter1190]

This is what Taylor Swift should be doing for a living.

[@3rick512]

So she cleaned it up right?

[@stereotypicalemousername9507]

ive actually met her shes learning how to be a mortician

[@sarahbaker3196]

Same I went to her house to go tubing she's really nice in person too

[@trace7453]

We did this in third grade it's not that complicated

[@RadioSaico]

bien, o sea que su talento es hablar como una niña de 5 años y hacer un experimento de escuela primaria? me ofende como tecnico quimico que ridiculice la ciencia para un concurso de belleza.

[@MたいしS]

Anyone can do that.... okay

[@anayeliavelazquez]

Que copiona, además Mis Virginia se puso bata, Google y guantes como debe de ser.

[@LeoAugustom]

I guess it's a nice try at endorsing science to young girls, but she shows it as a performance, no more complex than one for young children...And of course, she's gotta be a stereotypical girl while she's doing it!! So rhyming, talking about her hair and wearing a glittery lab coat dress thing is a must.

[@madahigarcia5752]

Lame af

[@trish8321]

She's joking right?