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The Miss & Teen Jacksonville USA PAGEANT CONTESTANT INFORMATION Who is Miss Jacksonville USA and Miss Jacksonville Teen USA? They are role models who care about their role and the role of women in society. They are attractive and poised women with a confident and commanding presence. They are intelligent, beautiful, and are independent and eloquent communicators. Miss Jacksonville USA and Miss Jacksonville Teen USA are ideal leaders, take pride in their health and physical fitness, and are involved with their community. As Miss Jacksonville USA or Miss Jacksonville Teen USA, you will represent the Jacksonville/First Coast area as an official ambassador. You will gain much through the rich personal experience of meeting and associating with many exciting people throughout the pageant year. The Miss & Teen Jacksonville USA Pageant is a part of the Miss Florida USA and Miss USA Pageants. You will represent the Jacksonville area at the Miss Florida USA Pageant or Miss Florida Teen USA pageant to be held later in 2010. The winner of the state pageants compete in the Miss USA Pageant and the Miss Teen USA Pageant. As you consider this opportunity today, remember, "YOU could be the next Miss Jacksonville USA or Miss Jacksonville Teen USA, Miss or Teen Florida USA, and even Miss or Teen USA." It's all up to you! QUALIFICATIONS To enter our local pageant, contestants must meet certain basic requirements and agree to abide by all of the rules of the local, state, and national pageants now in effect or announced hereafter. To be a contestant in the Miss or Teen Jacksonville USA Pageant, please refer to the Rules and Regulations sheets regarding all age, residency, and other requirements. Should you win the local pageant, you must make yourself available for public appearances during your reign and for competing in the state pageant. COMPETITION The Miss Jacksonville USA and Miss Jacksonville Teen USA Pageants will be held at 4:00 PM on Sunday, April 11th, 2010, at the Ritz Theatre and Museum in Jacksonville, Florida. Contestants will participate in a simple production number to start the pageant. We will be having a sort of “Spy / Special Agent” sort of theme, so please find an outfit that is black (see description a little further down). Contestants will compete in the following competitions, swimsuit, evening wear, and an interview (a/k/a on-stage question). All contestants will supply their own wardrobe for the production number and all phases of the competition. REGISTRATION Contact the pageant today! Fill out an application, provide your birth certificate, and contact the Directors: Kevin & Cammie Sanders at (904) 384-3578. You may also contact the pageant through its email address: MissJacksonville@bellsouth.net to request paperwork, or when the paperwork is posted to the website, you can print up all paperwork from the pageant's website (www.JacksonvillePageants.com) and get signed up that way. HOW TO GET STARTED MEETINGS As with any production, there are anticipated meetings and rehearsals, which will be announced as soon as they are set up. A schedule of such meetings and/or rehearsals will be posted to the website when established. Any meetings prior to the pageant will be for information purposes, answering questions, and for turning in paperwork and other requirements. A parent may attend with the contestant, but please only one additional person other than the contestant, due to possibly limited space. All contestants should regularly check the local pageant’s website (www.JacksonvillePageants.com) leading up to the pageant for all last minute updates. The pageant anticipates having at least one rehearsal prior to the pageant (most likely the weekend beforehand), so please leave your schedule flexible for such until the schedule is finalized. The rehearsal will be to learn the production number, learn walking patterns, and the planned lay-out of the pageant itself. Failure to attend the rehearsal once it is scheduled may result in being left out of the production number, and possibly the pageant depending on circumstances. YOUR YEAR AS MISS OR TEEN JACKSONVILLE USA As a winner of the Miss Jacksonville USA and Miss Jacksonville Teen USA pageant, you will serve for approximately one year as an "ambassador" for the city at social, civic, and community events on a volunteer basis. Selected members of the pageant committee will help to coordinate your preparation for the Miss Florida USA Pageant in July of 2010 (or Miss Florida Teen USA Pageant in September 2010). MISCELLANEOUS PLATFORM A platform is not a requirement, but could be most helpful to a successful year as a titleholder. You should consider being affiliated with a charity or community cause that you feel strongly about. It is best to choose a platform which the contestant is actively involved in and to which she has a strong personal commitment. SPONSOR(S) / ADVERTISER(S) Each contestant is required to seek at least one (1) sponsor page which will be placed in the official pageant program book. The full size page will feature the contestant's photograph and recognition of the sponsor (see sponsorship paperwork for costs of sponsor page and for the benefits of obtaining a sponsor). This sponsor page can list more than one business or individual (preferably not over 3) who would like to "honor" the contestant. The pageant will set up this "sponsorship" page. For all other ad sales, you will need to submit camera ready ads. A non-camera-ready ad requires an additional set-up fee of $25.00. More information is available by contacting the Directors. INTERVIEWS This year, the interview competition will be in the form of an on-stage question during the pageant itself. This could be on national, state, or local topics, as well as from information that you put on your information sheet. The questions may be predetermined and drawn at random in a bowl. Should the questions come from your information sheet, make sure that everything you have listed is something that you are comfortable talking about and that you are very knowledgeable about. Try to be well-spoken, confident, and succinct (don’t ramble). Also, try to interject your personality if possible into your response. PRODUCTION NUMBER We hope to have a “spy / special agent” theme this year. You can wear anything black in the production number. It can be a cocktail dress, pants outfit, black suit, etc. Heels can be black, clear, or silver. Your black outfit can have silver or gold accents and rhinestones. We want you to look chic and sharp like Bond girls or spies. The on-stage question will be the next category and will be a quick transition, so you will need to keep your hair the same and your outfit the same going into the on-stage question (interview) competition. ON-STAGE QUESTION For your on-stage question, you should wear your production number outfit, so pick something black that would be good for both the production number and sharp for the on-stage question competition. Please wear appropriate heels. This should be a classy looking outfit (suit, pants outfit, cocktail dress, etc.) and should not be so over-the-top as to upstage you during your answering of your question. See what is in your closet already! The judges will focus their attention on your poise, charm, confidence, ability to communicate, as well as the substance of your answer. SWIMSUIT The Swimsuit Competition represents how you maintain good physical fitness. The judges will be looking for beauty of face and figure, physical fitness, and confidence in how you carry yourself. Give the Judges your best model walk. Numerical measurements will not be published or considered in the judging process. Further, the contestant will not be required to pose with their back to the judges. This pageant encourages the contestants to keep their costs down and to buy "off-the-rack" swimsuits. One-piece or two-piece swimsuits are acceptable. EVENING WEAR The Evening Wear Competition is your chance to show off your grace and glamour. Judges are looking for your overall appearance, self-confidence, sense of style, and the beauty that you bring to the gown of your choice. Show your personality, stage presence, graceful walk, posture, and beauty. This pageant encourages the contestants to keep their costs down and to buy "off-the-rack" dresses whenever possible to reduce expenses on the contestant. Crowning and awards will be done while you are in your gown. SCHOLARSHIPS Depending on the support for the pageant by the contestants, audience members, supporters, sponsors, and advertisers, the Miss & Teen Jacksonville USA Pageant hopes to extend some scholarships to its Miss winner and possibly finalists, if they qualify for such. This is to be determined closer to the pageant. Your support of our endeavors will help to make this possible. Incentives may also be offered regarding the sale of tickets and ads. AWARDS AND GIFTS As our local titleholder, you will receive the official local USA preliminary crown and a trophy. Trophies will also be awarded to the finalists. (All scholarships, awards, prizes, and gifts are subject to final confirmation and will be officially announced in the program book and/or on stage.) FOR MORE INFORMATION If you have any questions concerning the Miss Jacksonville USA and Miss Jacksonville Teen USA pageants, please call the Directors, Kevin & Cammie Sanders at (904) 384-3578. You can also e-mail the pageant at: MissJacksonville@bellsouth.net. To get started, fill out the official application and submit a copy of your birth certificate. See our website for the rest of the paperwork and other requirements. APPLICATION PROCESS The completion of the official application, signing the Rules and Regulations, and presentation of your Birth Certificate are your first steps to becoming Miss Jacksonville USA or Miss Jacksonville Teen USA. Please complete the initial paperwork referenced above and return them to the North Florida Scholarship Organization, Inc., 817 Willow Branch Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32205. The deadline is March 20th, 2010 to get your application and all other requirements in, so you must act soon! Upon receipt of the initial paperwork, the Pageant Committee will verify the information and your qualifications. TO GET STARTED, YOU MUST SUBMIT: - The completed Information Sheet, Application, Rules & Regulation, and all other paperwork (keep copies for yourself) - A copy of your Birth Certificate (for age eligibility purposes) YOU SHOULD START TRYING TO GET: - Good quality 5 x 7 photo (no crown) (can be color or black & white, but color is preferred) - Start trying to find sponsor(s) or advertisers to support you in your endeavors. - Begin working on the pageant's paperwork and other requirements (soon to be available at www.JacksonvillePageants.com). The North Florida Scholarship Organization, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) scholarship organization, composed of all volunteers. If you would like to become involved with this fun and exciting community project and scholarship pageant, please contact the Directors at 904-384-3578. ************************************************************************************************************************
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