2015 Miss Rankin County Miss Dogwood Festival Scholarship

2015 Miss Rankin County
Miss Dogwood Festival Scholarship Pageant
Official Preliminary to the Miss Mississippi Pageant
MissRankinCountyPageant.org
Greetings!
We are excited to welcome another pageant year! The Miss Dogwood Festival Pageant and the Miss
Rankin County Pageant are open preliminary pageants for the Miss Mississippi Organization. Any qualified young
lady in the state of Mississippi can compete for these titles. The overall success of this scholarship program is
possible through the support and generosity of the community, businesses, schools, individual volunteers and
participation of the contestants.
The 2015 Miss Rankin County and Miss Dogwood Festival Pageant will be held on January 24th, 2015 at
the Brandon Middle School Auditorium at 6:00 PM. The winners will receive college scholarships. They will be
representatives to the statewide-televised Miss Mississippi Pageant in Vicksburg in July 2015. They will be
guaranteed at least another $1,200 in scholarship fund at the state pageant.
The Miss Rankin County and the Miss Dogwood Festival Pageants are open to any qualified ladies in the
state. The miss contestant must be between the ages of 17-24 and at least a senior in high school. Contestants
should have never been married or pregnant to be eligible. There is a required fee of $100 to be donated to the
Children’s Miracle Network fund.
If you are interested, you need to begin your preparations now. There are four areas of competition
involved in winning the Miss Rankin County and the Miss Dogwood Festival titles. They include talent (talent
presentation should not be more than 90 seconds, so start perfecting your talent now!); interview (you will talk
about your “platform issue”- this pertains to an issue that you would speak about if you become Miss Mississippi or
even Miss America); evening gown and swimwear. An on-stage question will also be a part of the competition.
Previous platform issues have included many different causes such as domestic violence, eating disorder, tobacco
awareness, education, volunteerism, breast cancer prevention, etc.
There is a Junior Division at the Miss Rankin County and Miss Dogwood Festival Pageant, which will be
held at 10:00 AM on January 24th. Those divisions are: 0-23 months Girls, Baby Miss; 0-23 months Boys, Baby
Mr.; 2-3 yrs. Girls, Tiny Miss; 2-3 yrs. Boys, Tiny Mr.; 4-5 yrs. Girls, Little Miss; 4-5 yrs. Boys, Little Mr.; 6-8 yrs.
Girls, Young Miss; 6-8 yrs. Boys, Young Mr.; 9-11 yrs. Girls, Pre-Teen; 12-14 yrs. Girls, Junior Miss; and 15-17
yrs., Miss Teen Rankin County, Miss Teen Brandon, Miss Teen Flowood and Miss Teen Dogwood. In the morning
pageant, there will also be a Miss and Mrs. Division (married woman between the ages of 18 and up). If you know
of anyone who would like to compete for the Junior Division, that pageant will be held at 10:00 AM with the Teen,
Miss and Mrs. Division. Two Outstanding Teen titles will be awarded: the Rankin County’s Outstanding Teen and
the Dogwood Festival Outstanding Teen (with talent and athletic wear competition). The Outstanding Teen and the
Miss Pageant will be held at 6:00 PM. There is a required fee of $100 for the Teen contestants that will be donated
to the Miss Rankin County Scholarship program. Applications for the Junior, Teen, Miss and Mrs. are available for
download at our website: www.MissRankinCountyPageant.org
The Miss and the Outstanding Teen contestant’s rehearsals will be on Friday January 23rd at 5:00 PM at
the Brandon Middle School Auditorium. During this rehearsal you will have to bring your music or accompaniment
for your talent if you are competing for the Outstanding Teen and Miss titles. You will be given a chance to practice
your 90 seconds talent on stage before your actual talent performance. You may dress casually for the rehearsal.
We will go over with the show order and a simple opening number for all the contestants. Your interview with the
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judges will be on January 24 , 2015 at 12:00 Noon. The opening number outfit will be your interview wear. Send
a photo 4X6 minimum size with your application form. You are also required to bring a Prince or Princess ages 512 to escort you during your evening wear competition. There is a required participation fee of $35 per individual for
this program. In the event that you cannot absolutely bring a Prince or Princess, we will provide one for you
however, you will still be required to pay their participation fee of $35. Attire for the Prince: long dark pants with
long sleeve white shirt. Attire for the Princess: white long dress. No rehearsal is required for the Prince/Princess
participants. They will have to be present with their attire during the pageant night. They will have assigned seats at
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the pageant. Deadline to enter is on January 15 .Application, photo and all fee requirements must be received on
this date to be qualified to compete. Send in with your application a short introduction for your talent. This will be
read prior to your talent performance on stage. Please call me if you have any questions. I will be happy to assist
you in any way I can.
Good Luck and hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Ray Trinanes- Director
105 Turtle Ridge Drive
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Brandon, MS 39047
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601 519 0552
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www.MissRankinCountyPageant.org
2015 Miss Rankin County and
Miss Dogwood Festival Scholarship Pageant
 Miss Rankin County
Application Form
 Miss Dogwood Festival
(Check the title you are eligible to apply)
Full Name _________________________________________________________________________
Age ___________ Date of Birth ________________________ Place of Birth ____________________
Home Address ______________________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip _____________________________________________________________________
Phone Numbers: (Home) ___________ (Mobile) _____________Text? Yes/No
(Work) __________
E-mail Address _______________________________ Can we contact you by Facebook? Yes/No___
Father’s Name: _____________________________ Mother’s Name ___________________________
Father’s Occupation _________________________ Mother’s Occupation ______________________
Parent’s Home Address _______________________________________________________________
Phone Numbers: (Home) _______________ (Mobile) ________________ (Work) _______________
E-mail Address _____________________________________________________________________
Education:
High School _______________________________________________________________________
(Name of School)
(Date Graduated)
College ___________________________________________________________________________
(Name of School)
(Degree Sought)
Years attended _____________ Classification this coming August ___________________
College major __________________________ Declared minor _________________________
Graduate School ____________________________________________________________________
(Name of School)
(Degree Sought)
Scholastic Honors ___________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
(2)
Career Ambition ____________________________________________________________________
Other Accomplishments ______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
What type of talent will you present? ____________________________________________________
(You need not give the exact title of your talent presentation here. Merely indicate if you will danceballet, tap etc., vocal presentation- classical, popular etc., play a musical instrument – name of
instrument, comedy reading, dramatic skit, etc.)
Special training in music, drama, dance, art _______________________________________________
Employment experience ______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Name, ages of brothers and sisters ______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Other interesting facts about yourself ____________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
State the reason why you want to be Miss Rankin County or Miss Dogwood Festival? ___
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
If selected, what issue would you choose to focus on during your year of service? ________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Name and number of community service projects you worked on (if any) _______________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Number of Hours and Fund Raised to support your community service projects (if any) ____________
__________________________________________________________________________________
(3)
Contestant Name ____________________________________________________________________
Critical Issue / Platform Issue __________________________________________________________
1. Clearly define the platform issue to which you are sincerely committed and for which you will be an
activist during your year of service.
2. What, if any are your most significant accomplishments to date in regard to your platform issue?
3. Specifically, what do you wish to accomplish during your year of service as an activist for your
platform issue?
I certify that the foregoing information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
___________________________________________ Contestant’s Printed Name
___________________________________________ Contestant’s Signature
___________________________________________ Date
1) Please show a proof of a minimum $100 donation to the Children’s Miracle Network Fund
with your application. If you have not done so, you are required to complete this requirement
prior to competing in the local Miss Mississippi pageants.
For more information about the Children Miracle Network you can log on to:
www.MissAmerica4kids.org
2) Complete and sign your application.
Print and complete all your information in this application form and
mail it to:
Miss Rankin County and Miss Dogwood Festival
Scholarship Pageant
c/o Ray Trinanes – Director
105 Turtle Ridge Drive
Brandon, MS 39047
Deadline to send in your application:
January 15, 2015
Pageant rehearsal will be held on January 23rd, 2015 at 5:00 PM
Private Interview with the Judges will be on January 24th, 2015 at 12:00 Noon
at the Brandon Middle School Auditorium
Pageant will be held at the Brandon Middle School Auditorium
on January 24th, 2015 at 6:00 PM
Call or E-mail if you have any questions with this application:
(601) 519 0552
MissRankinCounty@aol.com
TALENT INTRODUCTION
Contestant’s Name:
Talent Introduction:
Contestant Registration Instructions
Congratulations on becoming involved with the largest provider of scholarship assistance in the world.
Last year, the Miss America Organization and its state and local organizations made available more than
$43 million in scholarship assistance to young women across the country.
In 2007, the Miss America Organization partnered with Children’s Miracle Network – an alliance of
children’s hospitals – to develop a National Platform. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children’s
hospitals across North America. The 170 Children’s Miracle Network hospitals provide the finest
medical care, life-saving research and preventative education to help over 17 million kids each year
overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.
Registering as a Contestant
Each young woman interested in competing in the Miss America system must register online at
www.MissAmericaforKids.org. To register as a contestant, go to the home page and click on the
following pink button:
Fill out the mandatory fields (marked by an asterisk *) and click REGISTER at the bottom of the page.
Once you have completed the registration form, you will be taken to a list of upcoming pageants in your
state. Check the box next to the pageant(s) for which you would like to register and click REGISTER.
Fundraising
Contestants competing in Miss America-sponsored local pageants are required to raise a minimum of
$100 in donations for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Miss America Scholarship Fund. It’s
not an entry fee, but rather a community service requirement. Your fundraising goal will automatically
be set at $100 when you register. You may increase your goal at any time by logging in to your account
and clicking “Update Profile.” No matter where you set your goal, you must raise at least the minimum
amount required to be eligible to compete.
An additional $100 is required for each additional local pageant you attend, with a maximum cap of
$400. Once you have raised $400 for local competitions, you may compete in as many local pageants
within your state for which you are eligible (Michigan contestants are required to raise $100 for each
and every local pageant in which they compete). Once a contestant has won a local competition, she
must raise an additional $250 to be eligible to compete in her state pageant, and an additional $500 is
required of our state titleholders to be eligible to compete in the Miss America Pageant.
Registering for a Pageant
When creating your account, you will need to register for at least one pageant. If you wish to compete
in additional local pageants, you can log in to your profile at any time and click “Pageant Registration”
on your contestant dashboard:
Pageant Registration
You will then choose from a list of possible local pageants remaining in the current “Crowning Year.”
Crowning Year is determined by the year you would compete to become Miss America if you were to
win the local and state pageants leading up to it. For example, a local pageant occurring in October
2012 would lead to the 2013 State pageant and the 2014 Miss America Pageant, held in January ’14.
Therefore your local in October 2012 will be a part of the 2014 Crowning Year.
The pageant registration page includes a list of all the pageants available for registration in your state. If
your pageant does not appear here, contact your state director. Contact information is available at
http://missamerica.org/organization-info/state-contact-info.aspx.
Qualifying for a pageant
In order to qualify to participate in a pageant, you must raise the required minimum for that pageant
($100 for local pageants, $250 for state pageants, and $500 for the national pageant). In order to help
you reach your fundraising goal, you can use the MissAmericaforKids.org website to send emails to your
friends and family. When you are logged in to your account, click on “Send Emails” on your dashboard:
Send Emails
Here you may enter the email addresses of friends, family, and colleagues who you think would be
willing to support you in your efforts.
Tip: You may also send one email to yourself that you can then personalize and forward to your entire
contact list from your own email account. You will easily raise $100 for these two organizations by
getting just five (5) friends to donate $20, ten (10) friends to donate $10, or twenty (20) friends to
donate just $5 each – you get the picture! It’s just that simple.
You can check your progress and your qualification status at any time by clicking “Qualification Report”
on your contestant dashboard:.
Qualification Report
Here you can view a list of the pageants for which you are registered and the remaining amount of funds
you need to qualify, if any. Once you have qualified for a pageant, its entry line on your qualification
report will change from red to green.
Editing Your Profile
Once you have created an account on the MissAmericaforKids.org website, you will use that same
account profile throughout your years of competing in the Miss America system. You can edit your
information at any time by clicking either of the following two links on your contestant dashboard:
Edit Donation Page
In the “Edit Donation Page” section, you may increase your fundraising goal, set a custom URL to make
your donation page easier to find, change your personal message on your donation page, and update
your photo.
Update Personal Info
In the “Update Personal Info” section, you may change the email address that is associated with your
account or update your contact phone number and/or address. You cannot change your competition
state, however. If you are eligible and wish to compete in two different states at any time while
competing in the Miss America system, you must create a new profile for the second state in which you
choose to compete. Qualification monies raised cannot be transferred to another state or to a future
Crowning Year.
We wish you all the best on your journey toward
becoming Miss America! There are many rewards
awaiting you. Whether or not you ever win a title or
wear a crown, the opportunities and possibilities along
the way are endless!