![]() Not only is Ashley an incredibly successful meteorologist, but she is also a business owner and entrepreneur. This week on The Savv圜ast, CBS 42 Chief Meteorologist Ashley Gann joins me to share about her life, career, and faith. This week, Ashley joins me to discuss her career in meteorology, her family, the business she owns with her husband, and the faith that inspires it all. The other 50 percent comes tonight-evening gown and fitness wear.Birmingham locals probably know the amazing Ashley Gann from the CBS 42 weather. That’s basically what she told the judges during Friday night’s interview portion of the pageant, which counts for 50 percent of a contestant’s overall score. It’s about giving girls confidence, that they can still be uniquely themselves and still pursue these subjects that are generally male dominated or come with stereotypes.” It can be a crown and a sash and you can still be rocket scientists. I want to show them it doesn’t have to look like that. “A lot of young girls who think STEM means somebody who wears a lab coat all day. “And a great way to start having those conversations is to say, ‘hey, do you want some job security? Do you want to make more money?’ Because a STEM field will provide those opportunities and will tend to pay higher, too.”Īnd, hey-you can still compete in pageants. “In the next 15 years, almost 80 percent of all jobs will require a STEM component and the reality is that it has to be an integrated field, gender-wise, so we have to start having those conversations now with our youth,” Gann says. Gann wants to redefine the image she believes the majority of young girls have of jobs that, like hers, require a science, technology, engineering or math-related degree. Now she says she’s committed to taking advantage of the opportunity, which, if she wins, will include a year’s worth of expenses-paid travel promoting her platform-STEM. Then she got the call asking for an address to send the crown and sash. The organization actually recruited Gann, whose only pageant experience came with an occasional competition in college, to be Alabama’s representative. International pageant was “developed to promote today’s married women, their accomplishments, and commitment to family and marriage.” She’s been with WIAT in Birmingham since 2015.Īccording to its website, the 30-year-old Mrs. Since then she’s handled weather duties on stations across the state and across the south. ![]() She followed that up with a master’s degree in Geosciences from Mississippi State. The 34-year-old wife and mother of two actually once was a Miss War Eagle of sorts, serving as a War Eagle Girl before graduating from Auburn University with a degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2005. Alabama sash on and immediately said ‘Roll Tide.’ I said, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t let my children say those curse words, it’s War Eagle.’ And from that point on he’s called me Miss War Eagle.'” “He’s, like, the official host of the city. “We see (Reid-Smith) every day,” Gann says. After all, having the confidence to correct the Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History is the kind of stuff the judges are looking for. International contestants over the past week, probably thinks Gann is the one with the very good shot. Randall Reid-Smith, who has helped wine and dine Gann and her fellow Mrs. “There are several I think who have a very good shot.” “I feel very good about it, but there are a lot of incredible women here that I’m really cheering on, too,” Gann says. International.ĬBS 42 meteorologist Ashley Gann’s Saturday night forecast for Charleston, West Virginia? Custom 2005 Auburn graduate Ashley Gann will compete tonight in Charleston, W.V.
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