The Southern Maryland Junior Miss Scholarship Program

The Southern Maryland Junior Miss Scholarship Program is an official preliminary of America's Junior Miss (AJM), the oldest and largest scholarship program for high school junior females of its type. 

AJM promotes education and excellence in all areas of life.  Unlike beauty pageants, AJM encourages young women to be confident in who they are and to strive to reach their goals and become successful leaders in our communities.  AJM has established a unique system to evaluate contestants in the categories of Scholastics, Interview, Talent, Fitness, and Self-expression.  Since 1958, AJM has awarded more than $90 million in cash scholarships and provided thousands of young women with college granted scholarships to colleges and universities across the nation.  In addition to providing scholarships, AJM challenges each participant to share its national outreach program, Be Your Best Self (BYBS), with young people across the nation.  Through BYBS, Junior Misses encourage self esteem and excellence in all young people through the program's five principles: Be healthy, Be Involved, Be Studious, Be Ambitious, and Be Responsible.

The minimum requirements for participation are:
1. Junior in High School
2. Minimum of a 3.3 GPA.
3. U.S. Citizen

This local program is for young ladies in their junior year of high school (i.e. those who will graduate high school in 2011).  If you are graduating in 2011, you are eligible to participate in the program this year.  If not, still, please let me know when you will be graduating, and I will ensure that you are contacted for your respective graduating year. 

Now on to more details!!

• We are planning to have a training session for this program on Saturday, January 23rd (all day - and we'll update you on the times) at which you will learn the physical fitness routine, the opening number, and will have training sessions on interview, self expression, and cosmetics.  Please check your availability for this day as well!

• FORMS - Their are links below to the forms that you need to fill out in order to participate in the program.  Please fill out the health form and have it signed by your doctor!
• The scholastic form is a little more time consuming, so please start it NOW!  Academic Form A needs to be signed by a parent at the top and then both Academic form A and B need to be taken to the guidance counselor at school.  These forms need to be MAILED by the guidance counselor to the Jaycee Center.  The form CANNOT be given to the student to return to the Jaycees.
• The guidance counselors will need to fill in as much as they can from the students scholastic history.  For our program, the girls do not need to have completed the PSAT, SAT or ACT exams.  However, this will be a requirement for the State and/or National Program. 
• If the school's transcripts provide the information that is requested on the forms, the guidance counselor may opt to print the transcript, mark it official and staple it to the forms instead of filling in all the academic information.
• Should any information be missing or not completed, it will be assumed by the Scholastic Judges that the student did not complete the requirement and points could be deducted from their scholastic score.
  It is VERY IMPORTANT that the guidance counselors complete as much as they can for the student.
   
  Mail forms to:
  Greater Waldorf Jaycees
  ATTN: Elsa Ault
  3090 Crain Highway
  Waldorf, Maryland 20601
   
  Forms must be post marked to the Jaycees no later than January 23, 2010.

Sincerely,
Shannon Weimert
Co-Chair, Southern Maryland Junior Miss Scholarship Program
somdjrmiss@greaterwaldorfjaycees.com

America's Junior Miss