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APRIL, 2018
Miss DC
Lily Donaldson
Platform: Art, Technically: Promoting STEAM Education
Talent: “Sail” by AWOLNATION, Piano
Places to visit in DC: Embassy Row, Founding Farmers, Clarendon/Old Little Saigon
Favorite DC Monument: Albert Einstein Memorial
Favorite Portion of Competition: Interview
Favorite Miss America: Nina Davuluri, 2014
It’s official! The Miss District of Columbia Scholarship Program officially announced your Miss District of Columbia 2018 finalists today. These ladies will compete at the Miss District of Columbia 2018 competition June 16-17! The winner will represent DC at the national Miss America pageant.
I’m incredibly excited to be apart of the Miss DC class of 2018. I previously was involved in the Miss America Organization through the Miss Tennessee’s Outstanding Teen program where I fell in love with MAO’s commitment to young women, service, scholarship, style, and success! Since watching my former Miss Mid-south/Miss Tipton County sister crown Grace Burgess take the Miss Tennessee crown in 2016 and watching her on her Miss America journey, I’ve been inspired to continue mine in the Miss competition. The Miss District of Columbia competition will be June 16-17. Follow me on my journey there here and on my social media!
I taught PD at the Space Exploration Educators Conference at Space Center Houston
My former NASA educator partner and I presented educator sessions on Astrobotany and Sangmin’s NASA unit plan ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Science’ on studying extreme weather from space during the 2025 Space Exploration Educators Conference at Space Center Houston.
Teaching Workshops for Black Families Technology Awareness Day 2025
I taught workshops on Creative Coding and Astrobotany to K-12 students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Black Families Technology Awareness Day 2025.
Presenting at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting
My NASA CCRI (Climate Change Research Initiative) teammate, Sangmin Pak, and I presented a poster at #AGU24 (American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting) in #WashingtonDC on “Advancing Digital Literacy in K-12 with Art Technically: Cloudy with a Chance of Science”!