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Each team was provided a 40-page game manual filled with information and\u2014according to Tibbetts\u2014the key to winning the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost teams focused on a year-over-year improvement strategy, but in the manual it said that the highest possible score would determine the winner. I focused on getting the highest possible score in all categories,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI secured that score fairly early. The answer was right there in the manual, but not a lot of people take the time to carefully read 40 pages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That drive has been with Tibbetts for as long as she can remember and has had an outsized impact on her life. Upon hearing from a cosmetic chemist on her Girl Scout troop\u2019s career day in sixth grade, her career path was set. She chose Eckerd College<a href=\"\/admissions\/meet-us\/\"> after meeting a counselor<\/a> who showed her a strong science program where she would be learning directly from professors as an undergraduate. 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Now, she\u2019s starting her doctorate in chemistry at Texas A&amp;M University after being recruited for her GRE scores and a recommendation from her supervising professor at her Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts\u2013Amherst.<\/p>\n<p>In a little over five years, when she finishes her coursework and dissertation, Tibbetts hopes to be developing skincare technologies that are more efficient and sustainable. \u201cIt\u2019s our largest organ, and we really don\u2019t take care of it enough,\u201d Tibbetts shares. \u201cAnd the products on the market leave residue in bottles that make them unrecyclable, which is something the industry needs to address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She credits her management education at Eckerd College with helping her see the larger implications of the chemistry she was doing in labs and the math she was studying while sunning on South Beach. 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