Sweet, smiling Teresa Scanlan may be the only beauty pageant queen who doesn’t flinch when someone calls her stuck up. This weekend, she’s bound to prove it.

That’s when the youngest Miss America in 90 years hopes to be crowned the first-ever Miss Duct Tape, the flesh-and-blood representative of the ultra-sticky superstar of every home improvement project and offbeat fashion statement.

Care to take a wild guess as to the tiara’s likely construction material?

The 8th Annual Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival takes place June 17-19 in Avon, Ohio, and includes parade floats, fashion shows, sculptures and as many as 40,000 fellow duct-tape aficionados who have helped elevate this perfectly utilitarian tool from the garage to the beauty parlor of one of America's most vivacious women.

“People think I’m being facetious, but being invited to attend the Duct Tape Festival is a dream come true,” said Scanlan, 18. “I can’t wait!”

“It’s the greatest invention ever,” she said. “If I was ever on a deserted island and only allowed to take one thing, I’d take duct tape. You can hunt with it, fish with it, build with it, use it to decorate your hut and make stylish clothes. I’ve used it to make a roll-up bag for all my brushes.”

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It’s been shown to remove warts, bind broken helicopter rotors and was instrumental in saving the lives of three astronauts during the 1970 Apollo 13 flight: Astronaut Ed Smylie said he felt the crew was home free when he learned duct tape was included in the tool kit.