Miss Elementary Mid-Atlantic Pageant

Well lookey here!  There is a new division in the Multi State School Pageant system.

The Jr. High, High School and Collegiate America state preliminaries for Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York & Pennsylvania are held together annually in Lancaster, PA - usually during the first weekend in August.  

This year state director, Tracey Jamison, has elected to add an elementary division - to offer younger girls (perhaps siblings or older contestants) a chance to see the pageant first hand and compete in their own right.   The pageant is comprised of three area of competition, which are equally scored, are:

1) On-­stage presentation/Fun Fashion - Fun fashion is where each girl should have fun showing her personality and personal style.  Fun fashion will be worn DURING on-­stage introduction.

 
2) Introduction/poise - Each girl will give a brief introduction to show her level of comfort speaking in public.  The script will be the same for all contestants - Name, Grade, School, City & State.

3) Evening gown - The evening gown segment may be a “flower girl” type dress or pageant dress.

If you're in the market for a pageant for younger girls, check this one out!

New Mid Atlantic Queens crowned

On Saturday, August 13th the Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey High School & Collegiate America organization crowned eight new 2012 queens.  The pageant system, which is the official state preliminaries to the national Miss High School America & Miss Collegiate pageants, also held a fundraiser to benefit the national organization’s charity of choice - “Operation Smile”.   Six of the winners crowned at the state level will go on to compete in the national pageants in March 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, the junior high titleholders will reign within their respective state only. 

 Jordyn Goddard, Miss Maryland Collegiate America 2012

The new queens are:  Miss Delaware Junior High America – Bianca Moore (Miss DuPont Middle School), Miss Delaware High School America – Kaitlin Reppella (Miss William Penn High School), Miss Maryland Collegiate America – Jordyn Goddard (Miss College Park), Miss New Jersey High School America – Alexandra Marschall, Miss New Jersey Collegiate America - Rebecca Furman (Miss Oak Ridge), Miss Pennsylvania Junior High America – Chandler Swift (Miss South Brandywine Middle School), Miss Pennsylvania High School America – Camille Schrier (Miss Newton), and Miss Pennsylvania Collegiate America – Amber Smith (Miss St. Francis University).  

 Alexandra Marschall, Miss New Jersey High School  America 2012, (l)

Kaitlin Reppella, Miss Delaware High School America 2012 (c)

Chelsea Spruance, Miss Delaware High School America 2011 (r)

Tracey Jamison, director of the state pageants says “I am quite pleased with the young ladies the judges chose to represent these states in March.  Throughout the weekend, the young ladies exhibited poise, charm and intelligence – everything this pageant system stands for.  I truly believe each of them had a chance to win the national title and the $10,000 scholarship prize.” 

 Chandler Swift, Miss Delaware Jr. High America 2012, Tracey Jamison - Director, 

Amber Smith, Miss Pennsylvania Collegiate 2012 & Camille Schrier, Miss Pennsylvania America 2012

In addition to the opportunity to represent the state, winners will also receive a scholarship of up to $1000. Throughout the weekend’s competition, the delegates were scored in three categories - an individual interview with judges comprises 40% of the score, with the Evening Gown (40%) and fun fashion portions (20%) as the remaining categories scored to determine the winner.

Remember the Alamo

This year marks the 175th anniversary of the "Battle of the Alamo" in San Antonio, Texas.

Just when you thought schools weren't paying enough attention to history and how far we've come as a country, something special happens to tie it all together!   Now perhaps it wasn't by design, but it sure makes for good public relations!  High School girls from around the country converged "Deep in the Heart" of Texas this and will compete for the title of Miss High School America 2011!!!!!  
There are still a few days to go until the final competition, but so far, it looks like they are having a BLAST!

 

 
In honor of Pee-Wee Herman, I wonder if anyone asked to see the basement?