The current Miss Teen Earth is Karinne Lino of Brazil crowned on November 24, 2024 in Lima, Peru.[8]
History
The pageant started in Ecuador in the year 2012 and was continued in the coming year as well.
The Miss Teen Earth contest is an event that promotes the main tourist destinations in Ecuador.[9]
The contest is the first teen pageant that promotes programs in favor of the environment and visits to children with cancer.[10]
The Miss Teen Earth contest was held in the Central American country of Panama from 2014 to 2016.[11][12]
During these years the competition was supported by the Mayor of Panama, who gave an important recognition to the pageant, for promoting environmentally beneficial activities, which included a reforestation program at the Parque Municipal Summit, a zoo and tropical botanical garden, refuge of different exotic plants and animals considered endangered.[13]
Environmental Contribution
The Miss Teen Earth pageant has been directly linked to government entities, which is why it has managed large contributions as educational tours and reforestation campaigns, with the support of the Municipality of Panama City and the Ministry of Environment of Panama.[14]
Competition
The competition consists of introduction round, national costume, swimsuit, question answer round and evening gown.
1Judging of the competition took place outside of the normal pageant environment due to the global restrictions on public events and international travel imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The winner was crowned in a live-streamed event.
^"Morona Santiago hosts to choose the best international typical costume of Miss Teen Earth 2013". turismo.gob.ec. Ecuador: Ministry of Tourism. March 14, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2022. Rodrigo Moreira, the representative of Miss Teen Earth, in the company of Ma. Fernanda González, former Miss Teen Ecuador Earth, visited the Morona Santiago Tourism Department and during his stay he highlighted that the contest is a gallant event that for the second consecutive year promotes the main tourist destinations in Ecuador and this time he visited Macas. (original in Spanish)
^"Panama, headquarters of international beauty pageant". milagrocity.com. Ecuador. October 3, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2023. The organization of the international beauty contest led by Rodrigo Moreira, who considers that the care and protection of the environment and sustainable development are issues of the utmost importance, carried out an educational tour and a reforestation campaign in Panama, with the support of the Municipality and the Ministry of Environment. (original in Spanish)
^"Newly crowned Miss Teen Earth SA 2023 to focus on environmental issues". IOL South Africa. November 2, 2023. The teenage beauty believes that the beauty pageant and empowerment initiative, which was created to empower young women to actively make a sustainable difference in the fight against the destruction of the plant, is the perfect platform to do this.
^"Brazilian is Miss Teen Earth 2021". Pageantopolis. October 24, 2021. The Brazilian Maria Laura Mariano da Silva became the adolescent ambassador for the Environment around the world.