Miss Wisconsin Grace Stanke stopped by SHINE’s main campus in Janesville, Wisconsin, on Oct. 20 to tour The Chrysalis along with leaders from the American Nuclear Society.
Stanke is a nuclear engineering student at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is championing “Clean Energy, Cleaner Future” to help America convert to zero-carbon energy, with an emphasis on nuclear power, as her social impact initiative during her reign.
A brand ambassador of SHINE, her first tour of our facilities came in the middle of Nuclear Science Week.
While here, she did a radio interview with local radio station WCLO 1230 AM. Stanke covered everything from how she got involved in nuclear engineering, why she enjoys it, being a role model for other girls hoping to get into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and why SHINE’S nuclear fusion-driven mission is so important to her.
“My dad did go through cancer twice, and nuclear medicine saved his life twice,” she said.
Listen to Grace's full interview with WCLO below.
