Miss Muscatine Scholarship Program

Miss Muscatine Key Requirements

Paperwork for Contestants in Miss Muscatine

Contestant Checklist: CLICK HERE    Please make sure you turn in everything on this list and include this with your paperwork when you send it in.

Contestant Application/48 Hour Sheet: CLICK HERE

Contestant Contract: CLICK HERE

Contestant Resume Template: CLICK HERE 

Contestant Platform Essay Instructions: CLICK HERE 

    **For a sample document of the contestant platform essay please CLICK HERE.

Photography & Website Release: CLICK HERE

Talent Reservation: CLICK HERE

    **For information on Talent & Background Enhancements CLICK HERE

Ad Sales & Love Lines Form: CLICK HERE

My Page: CLICK HERE for the My Page template.

CMN Fundraising Requirement: In 2007 the Miss America Organization announced a formal partnership with the Children's Miracle Network.  As part of that partnership every contestant on the local, state and national level will be required to do fundraising for CMN through personal website donation sites located at www.missamerica4kids.org.  Each contestant should go to this website to create an account and begin the fundraising process immediately.  Local contestants are required to raise $100 for CMN/MAO for each local competition they compete in (up to $400).  Excess fundraising (beyond $100) will rollover towards the next local you compete in.  At the end of the pageant year (after Miss Iowa) you must change the PAGEANT YEAR (year of the state pageant you're trying for)  for the next pageant season.  During each pageant year you use the same account and just pick the local you're competing in currently. Note that we are in pageant year 2009.  DEADLINE: January 3rd

    CMN/MAO Information:

    Miss America Organization Announces Partnership with CMN 4/07
    CMN/MAO Guide
    MAO National Platform Donation Roll-Over Information

Competitions & Judging

Interview and Community Service Platform

Each contestant competes in a 10 minute interview with a 30 second closing statement.  General knowledge, current events and platform issue are considered.  This competition is worth 25% of the final score.

Talent

Each contestant performs a 90 Second talent presentation.  Background music must be provided on CD's ONLY.  This competition is worth 35% of the final score.

Physical Fitness in Swimsuit
        Each contestant models swimwear onstage.   This competition is worth 15% of the final score.

Evening Gown
        Each contestant models her evening gown onstage.  This competition is worth 20% of the final score.

Onstage Questions

Each contestant answers two onstage questions; one platform related and one non-platform/fish bowl.  This competition is worth 5% of the final score.

Final Ballot

Competition scores determine the top five contestants, all of those previous scores are erased and judges score a final ballot for the top 5 contestants to determine the placements assigned to those top five contestants.

MISS COMPETITION REVIEW 

All competitions scored on a scale of 1 to 10 using whole numbers only with each contestant’s high and low score dropped from each phase of competition with the exception of the Final Ballot. 

Interview--25%    Interview Attire—appropriate for a job interview, no too short skirts

On-Stage Question--5%       Interview Attire—appropriate for a job interview, no too short skirts

Talent--35%     Wear wardrobe appropriate to your presentation

Evening Wear--20%     Floor length contemporary gown

Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit--15%     Wear 1 or 2-piece contemporary swimsuit

These competitions will select the Top Five.  The final ballot allows each judge to assess each of the contestant’s overall abilities to meet the public’s expectations and the program’s necessary requirements of a titleholder.  Each judge will rank the Top Five contestants on a Final Ballot.  A first place vote is worth ten points, a second place vote is worth five points, a third place vote is worth three points, a fourth place vote is worth two points and a fifth place vote is worth one point.  The total of the Final Ballots alone will determine the outcome of the pageant.  The high and low scores on the Final Ballot will NOT be dropped.  All judges’ votes count on the Final Ballot.

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