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PAGEANT INFORMATION

AN OFFICIAL PRELIMINARY FOR THE
MISS AMERICA PAGEANT

WHEN: October 13, 2007

7:00pm

LOCATION: Lee Hall Auditorium at Florida A&M University

ENTRY DEADLINE: Friday, September 14, 2007

TICKETS: $10.00 (sold in advance only-FAMU rental rules)

Tickets WILL NOT be available at the door...PRE-PURCHASE ONLY during rehearsals and interview time only

THE MISS WINNERS WILL ADVANCE TO COMPETE IN
THE 2008

MISS FLORIDA PAGEANT!

REHEARSAL TIMES

Orientation (Optional) - TBA
Evening gown, opening number and swimsuit (MANDATORY practice) - Friday, October 12, 2007 at Lee Hall Auditorium at 6:30 PM
Talent Rehearsal and 2nd Opening Number Rehearsal - October 13, 2007 immediately prior to pageant at Lee Hall Auditorium-time TBA
(Dates and times of rehearsals and interviews are subject to change, depending on the number of contestants entered.)

Interviews - October 12-13, 2007 (Late Friday evening and early Saturday morning at the official hotel's conference room - Cabot Lodge on Raymond Diehl Road)

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Official Hotel:

Interviews for the contestants will be held in the boardroom at the Cabot Lodge early Saturday morning and Friday evening. Therefore, it would be most convenient for all out of town contestants and guests, and possibly local contestants to stay at our host hotel. A special rate of $79.00 per night has been secured, however, you should make your reservation now to insure availability.

MISS Pageant Information

Miss North Florida Fair/Miss Tallahassee/Miss Capital City QUALIFICATIONS:

Contestants must be born female, be of good moral character, be between the ages of 17 (at least a high school senior) and cannot turn 24 before December 31, 2007, be a citizen of the United States of America, be a high-school graduate or possess an equivalent degree by June 2006, be single, never having been married or pregnant, be a permanent resident of Florida or a college student in Florida for at least a full semester.

SPONSORSHIP:

Each contestant is asked to provide a $200.00 sponsorship for the pageant. This sponsor may be a business or businesses, civic organization, friends or family. Sponsorship allows for growth in our scholarship fund and provides resources necessary to continue this program. This sponsorship will allow you to have a full page ad in the program. See below for details.

      CONTESTANT REQUIREMENTS:

Contestants will need a
brightly colored cocktail dress
for Opening Number

Along with standard competition wardrobe, contestants will need a brightly colored cocktail dress for the opening number. A mandatory rehearsal will be held on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the North Florida Fairgrounds at 6:00pm to rehearse opening number, onstage question, swimwear and evening gown. All swimsuits must be pre-approved by the executive directors. Please e-mail a photo of yourself in the swimsuit by September 14th 2007 to MissNFFpageant@aol.com or arrange to meet with the executive director in person before this date. Talent rehearsal and another opening number rehearsal will be held immediately prior to the pageant on October 13, 2007 in Lee Hall Auditorium at FAMU. Interviews will be held on Friday evening and Saturday morning, at the official pageant hotel meeting room.

Reception for Newly Crowned Title Holders

Immediately following the pageant, the newly crowned tiltle holders will be required to attend a reception at the University Center Club at FSU) with the pageant committee and judges. Each winner may bring one special guest at no charge. Additional guest tickets can be purchased.

Sponsorships and Ad Pages

Each contestant will be asked to raise $200 in sponsorships which will automatically include a full page ad from family, businesses etc. Additional pages can be purchased by contestants sponsors for $75 each. The ad page will be 81/2 inches tall by 51/2 inches wide. Please send all ads in .jpg or .pdf format by September 14, 2007. We will not design ads or reformat photo's...make sure they are either a .jpg or .pdf format!!!!

Required Documents

• Contestant resume (six copies-one page in length)
  
• Platform Statement (6 copies-one page in length)
  
• Local Contract (1 copy-all pages MUST BE NOTORIZED)
  
• 6 headshot photos - color or black and white (one original for the printer and 5 original copies for the judges books...all of the same pose). The photo's can be of any size...as long as they are 8 X 10 or smaller. Keep in mind that each of the judges will have one during the entire pageant. (Size 5 X 7 would be ideal.) These photo's are returnable.
  
• 2 copies of Talent Music on CD only  
  
• Onstage Introduction Form/Production Form
  
• Children's Miracle Network $100 donation (see info below) 
  
  

All of these items are due by September 14, 2007!

Instruction and examples are available below at
"Online Entry Forms" 

On-Line Entry Forms (http://www.missflorida.org/Forms.htm) 

NEW INFORMATION for 2007-08 local pageant season: The Children's Miracle Network is the new National Platform of the Miss America Organization. Each Miss contestant will be required to raise $100 in donations for Children's Miracle Network in order to compete in a local Miss America pageant. Our pageant committee is working hard to collect this money for you.  Our goal is to raise enough to cover all of our contestants.  Monies will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. The first contestant to submit all required entry material (see below) and the $200 sponsorship will have their $100 paid for them to CMN, then the second, and so on until the funds we have raised for you are depleted. Log on to: http://missamerica4kids.com/ to begin raising the monies on your own (click on "new contestants").  After you sign in for Miss Tallahassee Pageant 2008, it will ask you who you would like to send the donation request to...friends/family. To save you from having to type in everyone's email address, you can send the donation request email to yourself, and then you can forward it to everyone in your address book once you've logged on and opened it in your personal email account.

LOCAL LEVEL:
All contestants must register at www.MissAmerica4Kids.org. Even though a contestant may have been involved in the Miss America Pageant system last pageant cycle (leadng to a State 2007 title), a new ID is needed when the contestant enters their first local pageant of the pageant cycle.  That ID chosen for the first local pageant will be used by that contestant throughout the pageant season for that pageant cycle. DO NOT create a new ID for each pageant within a pageant cycle. Any donations collected, in excess of the $100 for pageant 1, will automatically roll-over into the contestants excess account and will be used toward their fundraising goal for pageant 2. Any excess funds from pageant 2 will automatically roll-over and will be used toward their fundraising goal for pageant 3, etc. Contestants will still need to raise a minimum of $100 per local pageant entered and must register on line for each local pageant entered by going to www.MissAmerica4Kids.org and logging into their CMN personal page and selecting the new pageant for the title that they are then currently competing for. When changing the "Pageant competing for:" do not change your ID.  If the contestant does not go on to compete at the State level, any excess funds over the $100 per pageant entered will be equally distributed among all of the local pageants the contestant competed in.     

AGE AND RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR "OPEN" TITLES (Miss NFF and Miss Capital City):
Age limit is 17-24 years of age. Muist be 17 by pageant date or when contract is signed; must not be older than 23 as of December 31, 2007.
High school graduate or must have GED by June 2008
Must reside, must work, or be a college student in Florida for at least six months prior to pageant date, and through 7/10/08 to become titleholder.

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR "CLOSE" TITLE (Miss Tallahassee): Must reside, must work or be a college student in the counties west of and including Gilchrist, Levy, and Columbia for at least six months prior to pageant date and plan to reside/work in those counties throughout the next 12 months.  

JUDGING CATEGORIES:
A panel of five (5) judges will judge the contestants. At least three of the five judges will be Miss America qualified judges. One judge will be a novice judge. Names of the judges will be provided to contestants prior to pageant.

1. Judges Interview - 25% (10 minutes)
   
   Dress should be appropriate for any type of interview. Style and color should compliment contestant. Judged on personal appearance, personality, mental attributes, speech, vacabulary, grammar, and confidence.
   
   Please contact the director to find out the 2007-08 Miss America interview format. (time limit, opening statement, closing statement, etc.)
   
   
2. Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit - 15% (20 second walk)
   
   The Miss North Florida Fair committee must approve the suit prior to competition. An e-mailed or faxed photograph of the suit ON the contestant will suffice. If there is a problem, a committee representative will notify the contestant.
   
   The contestant will be judged on physical fitness, poise, and general appearance. Swimsuit and contestant should compliment each other. Contestant will be limited to a 20 second walk.
   
   
3. Talent 35% (2 minutes)
   
   The contestant will be judged on execution, technique, synchronization, stage presence, use of voice, body, instrument, costume, music and choreography. Props are limited to those that can be carried on stage by the contestant and must be used in the talent presentation. No stage props will be allowed.
   
   
4. Evening Wear - 20%
   
   The formal evening wear will be judged on the following: 1) how the gown and contestant compliment each other, 2) grace and poise on stage. After these areas have been judged, two questions will be asked of the contestant: 1 ) a personal question from the contestant's fact sheet or from the interview, 2) a question will be on the contestant's platform and taken directly from the interview. The contestant will be judged on richness of voice (control), expression, vocabulary, and sincerity.
   
   
5. Onstage Question - 5%
   
   Judges will evaluate the contestant on her overall performance in all phases of the competition to determine whether or not she should be Miss North Florida Fair. This evaluation is done once all other phases are complete.

PLATFORM:
The Miss America Organization encourages the young women who participate in the program to become involved in their communities and to speak out on issues of concern to them, their community and the nation. Each contestant must select a platform and answer an official platform question sheet about that subject. This question sheet will be given to the judges along with the contestant resume.

Contact Information
Miss North Florida Fair Scholarship Pageant
missnffpageant@aol.com

• TEEN Pageant Information

Reception for Newly Crowned Title Holders
Immediately following the pageant, the newly crowned Miss/Teen North Florida Fair and Miss/Teen Tallahassee will be required to attend a reception (most likely at the University Center Club at FSU) with the pageant committee and judges. Each winner may bring one special guest at no charge. Additional guest tickets can be purchased.

Teen will rehearse with the Miss contestants.
See schedule above

• Opening number outfit will be a brightly
  colored cocktail dress

We will crown at least one young lady and sponsor her to advance to the Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Pageant. Additional titles will be awarded according to number of contestants entered/and or quality of contestants.
MissFlorida's Outstanding Teen websete is: www.missfloridaoutstandingteen.net

Teen Categories of Competition:

1) Evening Wear

2) Interview
(Please ask director about the format of the interview...time limit,
closing and opening statements, etc.)

3) Talent

4) Onstage Question/Academic Achievement

5) Lifestyle and Fitness
(Click link below to important Lifestyle and Fitness Wardrobe information)
http://www.missfloridaoutstandingteen.net/LIFESTYLEANDFITNESSINNSPORTSWEARCOMPETITION.pdf

Eligibility: Please see state website for eligibility requirement:
http://www.missfloridaoutstandingteen.net/Conrec.html

All entry items are due by the entry deadline:
September 14, 2007!

Entry Fee: $125 (one full page ad will be given per contestant:a $200 value) Additional pages can be purchased by contestants or their sponsors for $75 each. The ad page will be 81/2 inches tall by 51/2 inches wide. Please send all ads in .jpg or .pdf format by September 14, 2007. We will not reformat photo's...make sure they are either a .jpg or .pdf format!!!!
We can design an ad for you for an additional $50. Just send us the photo's and what you would like the ad to say. We will email it back to you for your approval.

4 photo's: (same pose/head shots) in color or black and white, no larger than 8 X 10 (5 x 7 is ideal)

4 copies of your fact sheet/resume: Instructions For Completing The Fact Sheet

4 copies of your platform statement:Instructions For Typing The Platform Issue Statement

Talent request form: Download the Talent Request Form
(one copy) Talent cannot be longer than 2 minutes in length

Onstage introduction form: Download the On Stage Introduction Form

2 copies of talent music: (CDs only)

Proof of residence

Copy of Birth Certificate

Sealed copy of your last report card/official transcripts

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  2008
• Miss Contestants

*Faith Lowe	*Tamara Childers	*Megan Kirven	*Amy Hume
*April Baucham	*Rosie Justilien	*Brooke Brown	*Brittany McMillan
*Raevyn Jefferson	*Sydney Keister	Caycee Hampton	Erica Hayden
Erin lancaster	Perianne Boring	Megan O'kelley	Cassie Stafford
	Rachel Rothwell	Rikki Klaus

• *Denotes contestants can also win Miss Tallahassee" 

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• Teen Contestants
  

  Amanda Morris	Katerina White	Anna Lee
  Catherine Trisch	Katherine McMichael

   

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