Lauren Caitlin Upton



Lauren won Miss Teen South Carolina and represented her state well when she responded to a question about American's students' rejection of map-learning, with this inspirational and informed answer:

"“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”"