About Mackenzie…

Mackenzie Bart grew up in the small town of Brockway, PA, just down the road from the famous Punxsutawney Phil. Growing up, Mackenzie was involved in the 4-H Club, Rotary Club and organized a sign language club called “Seeing Voices”.

Prior to beginning her senior year of college at The Ohio State University, Mackenzie served as Miss Ohio 2014 and had the opportunity to compete in the prestigious Miss America Scholarship Competition. With her spunky puppet, Roxy, Mackenzie won the Preliminary Talent Award. In addition to making the final top 10 at Miss America, Mackenzie also won a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) scholarship.

After competing at Miss America, Mackenzie, and Roxy, were featured on Good Morning America and The Today Show. As Miss Ohio 2014, she traveled over 38,000 miles to visit every single children’s hospital and veteran’s home in the state of Ohio, in addition to Pennsylvania and West Virginia.  She also educated many students about STEM. Because of her younger sister’s medical problems, she was an advocate of Universal Newborn Screening and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

In 2015, Mackenzie was cast to be a member of America’s Next Weatherman, a reality competition show on TBS. She competed against 12 other meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in weekly weather related challenges. Mackenzie walked away with the title of America’s Next Weatherman and forecasted on CNN’s New Day show.

Mackenzie is currently a Ohio Valley Emmy Award Meteorologist in Cleveland, Ohio. When she isn’t forecasting the weather, Mackenzie can be found performing at events and schools with her ventriloquism puppets.