Ruby Bielema will represent the Mendota BPW in the 79th Annual Sweet Corn Queen Festival pageant.
While at Mendota High School, she participated in football and basketball cheerleading.
She was inducted into the National Honor Society, earned honor roll every semester and maintained a 4.0 grade point average.
Bielema received the Mendota BPW Scholarship and Hogan National Scholarship.
In the fall, she will be attending Illinois Wesleyan University to seek a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
She plans on working as a certified nursing assistant while attending school.
After completing her bachelor’s degree, Bielema plans to get her master’s and be an orthopedic nurse practitioner.
This summer Bielema is working at West Side Family Dentistry.
Her job duties include working on all the files and adding them to an online system, as well as sorting photos and adding them to the system.
Some of her hobbies include fishing, doing yard work and hanging out by the pool.
She plans to hang out with family and friends until school starts in the fall.