- 15-year-old katherine haik made history when she became the youngestant contest ever to win the title of miss teen usa. hi, katherine. - hi. - as miss teen usa, you're encouraged to be involved with a service project. tell us about yours.t, wee my y - righear as miss teen usa, i always had a passion of working with children and over this year i've worked with so many great organizations and causes dealing with special needs children. like the very special miss louisiana pageant, special olympics, and of course best buddies, all showing the special needs children how important they are, and even though they're different, they're capable of so many things. - what are some of the things that you can do with these special needs kids to do that? - right, well, when i worked with the special olympics, ending the r-word rally at my old junior high school, showing them, even though they're different, they're so very special and just different events with like the best buddies, and just different things like that. - you mentioned going to end the r-word rallies. can you tell us more about that

- 15-year-old katherine haik made history when she became the youngest contestant ever to win the title of miss teen usa. hi, katherine. - hi. - as miss teen usa, you're encouraged to be involved with a service project. tell us about yours. - right, well, even before my year as miss teen usa, i always had a passion of working with children with special needs, so that's really what i wanted to devote my year as miss teen usa to, h so many great organizations and causes dealing with special needs children. like the very special miss louisiana pageant, special olympics, and of course best buddies, all showing the special needs children how important they are, and even though they're different, they're capable of so many things. - what are some of the things that you can do with these special needs kids to do that? - right, well, when i worked with the special olympics, just showing them what they're capable of showing them, even though they're different, they're so very special and just different events with like the best buddies, and just different things like that. - you mentioned going