2015 Miss Rankin County Miss Dogwood Festival Scholarship Pageant Official Preliminary to the Miss Mississippi Pageant MissRankinCountyPageant.

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1 Greetings! 2015 Miss Rankin County Miss Dogwood Festival Scholarship Pageant Official Preliminary to the Miss Mississippi Pageant MissRankinCountyPageant.org 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 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 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; yrs. Girls, Junior Miss; and 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: 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 judges will be on January 24 th, 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 5-12 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 the pageant. Deadline to enter is on January 15 th.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 Brandon, MS

2 Miss Rankin County 2015 Miss Rankin County and Miss Dogwood Festival Scholarship Pageant Application Form (Check the title you are eligible to apply) Miss Dogwood Festival Full Name Age Date of Birth Place of Birth Home Address City, State, Zip Phone Numbers: (Home) (Mobile) Text? Yes/No (Work) 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) 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)

3 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)

4 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. (3) 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

5 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: 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 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 24 th, 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 if you have any questions with this application: (601) MissRankinCounty@aol.com

6 TALENT INTRODUCTION Contestant s Name: Talent Introduction:

7 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 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.

8 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 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 s to your friends and family. When you are logged in to your account, click on Send s on your dashboard: Send s Here you may enter the addresses of friends, family, and colleagues who you think would be willing to support you in your efforts. Tip: You may also send one to yourself that you can then personalize and forward to your entire contact list from your own 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.

9 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 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!