Miss Georgia Pre-Teen Spokesmodel Damácia Howard won the 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Award!

Damácia2 Damácia3 Damácia4 Damácia5 Damácia6 Damácia7 Damácia8 Damácia9 Damácia10 Damácia11 Damácia12 Damácia13 Miss Georgia Pre-Teen Spokesmodel Damácia Howard won the 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Award! Damácia was the state of Georgia Middle Level Winnder. She in turn received several state level awards and recognition from President Obama, Governor Nathan Deal, Senator Donzella James, Secretary of State Brian J. Kemp, Georgia Superintendent of Schools Mr. Richard Woods, Congressman David Scott and Union City, GA Mayor Vince Williams will be honoring Damácia on April 19th with a proclamation declaring April 19th as Damácia Howard. Damácia will be traveling to Washington DC, to be honored with 101 others students at a banquet at the Smithsonian. She’ll enjoy four full days of festivities.

OR and WA Queens National American Miss Queens get together for a good cause! Miss Oregon Pre-Teen Shayla Montgomery, Miss Oregon Jr. Teen Isabella Ellsworth, Miss Oregon Princess Makaia Mellas, Miss Washington Pre-Teen Tiffany Abrahams, and Miss Washington Jr. Teen Hermona Girmay, came together to help with a kids scavenger hunt.

Spencer Petty, Miss Tennessee Teen, brings the Miss Amazing Pageant to Tennessee!

Spencer Petty, Miss Tennessee Teen and Director, of an inspiring 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Tennessee Miss Amazing Pageant. The mission of the Miss Amazing Pageant TM is to provide opportunities for girls and young women with disabilities to raise self-confidence through the skills learned in pageantry in a supportive environment. Even though this organization had been around since 2007 in 20 other states, it had not been held in Tennessee. So Spencer brought the first Miss Amazing pageant for the young ladies with disabilities in Tennessee on Saturday, Jan 3 and Sunday, Jan 4, 2015. After competing in National American Miss pageants for nine years she knew what pageants had done for her in increasing her confidence and she wanted to offer this same experience to young ladies with disabilities. They successfully reached their goal for the first year by:

registering 15 young ladies to participate
received over 500 “likes” on facebook
recruited 40 volunteers to help (Miss Amazing Pageants are run 100% with only volunteers)
secured over $10,000 of sponsor donations
collected 66 lbs of canned goods to donate to food bank (entry fee is 5 cans of food) and
increased the confidence of the young ladies that were given a chance to
- walk on stage and introduce themselves to the packed house of 150 family and friends
- interview one-on-one with three judges and
- learn how to be poised and graceful during evening gown.

When the weekend started they met timid and unsure young ladies that required much assistance but by the finale show they bravely executed each component without any assistance. Every participant is crowned a Princess and receives a trophy for their bravery and effort. We crowned the five age division Queens for Tennessee and they will be representing our state at the National Miss Amazing Pageant to be held in Los Angeles at the same time the Special Olympics World Games will be there in July, 2015. The Miss Amazing PageantTM is now in almost thirty states and has donated around $50,000 and 1,000 pounds of food to community organizations across the nation.

They were also featured in the Tennessean, check out the article here!

http://tnne.ws/1By3jSV

Shelby Beloate, Miss Tennessee Teen, was featured in her local paper.

Shelby Beloate, Miss Tennessee Teen, was featured in her local paper. Read the article to learn more about our Tennessee Teen Queen!

http://www.parispi.net/news/local_news/article_7e3a589e-6055-11e4-8e98-cf94fad1a84c.html#.VFKn7-TX1KA.email

Miss Kentucky Princess, Irelyn Jean Potts, was featured in her local paper.

Anna Grace Reep, Miss South Carolina Princess, has been busy volunteering around town.

Anna Grace Reep, Miss South Carolina Princess, has been busy volunteering around town. Anna-Grace was in the Little Mountain Reunion parade in August representing NAM as Miss South Carolina Princess. It is South Carolina’s Oldest Folk Festival and part of her hometown of Newberry County. Even in a light rain, Anna-Grace rode in the parade & afterwards visited with some of the crowd talking about NAM and how it promotes confidence in their girls.

She then met with the Head of School at her school to donate school supplies that were collected at her South Carolina state pageant. Brian Fitzgerald, Head of Newberry Academy thanked her for such a generous donation to go toward the student body. He is so proud of his second grader who is South Carolina Princess for National American Miss. Anna Grace participates in Eaglette Cheerleading and is on the High Honor Roll for the school.

Anna-Grace also met with the Mayors of the towns in Newberry County South Carolina last night. She met with the Mayor Lisha Senn of Silverstreet, SC; Mayor Darryl Hentz of Pomaria, SC; Mayor Derek Underwood of Prosperity, SC ; and Mayor Foster Senn of Newberry. They all wanted to meet with her and wish her luck as she will represent our community & state at Nationals.

Also she met with Mayor Derek Underwood privately as he welcomed her nonprofit thrift store Angels of Grace to the town of Prosperity. She had appeared in an advertisement with her sister in the Newberry Magazine where the Thrift Store had moved to Prosperity. It was featured on page 24 in the September/October edition. Anna-Grace is the ambassador and a volunteer in the non-profit store. She helped it moved and works in the store setting up displays, sorting clothes, and also helping children shop in the store.

After a busy day with school, cheerleading practice & appearances, she stopped by one of her proud sponsors Zesto’s of Newberry to get supper. Mr. Jack the owner knows that their Fried Chicken is her favorite food. They always have their NAM Queen a chicken leg & a milkshake ready.

Baylee Smith SC Pre-Teen Queen and Anna-Grace SC Princess together at Toni Buskers Workshop in Greenville. Anna-Grace attended last year’s MCI event in Nashville and is part of the MCI family.

Ella Osborne, Miss Oregon Princess, filmed a commercial for Toys for Tots!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFnV45bSeQ

Ella Osborne, Miss Oregon Princess, featured in an article from See to Read!

Early Detection Leading to Success: Ella Osborne Crowned Miss Oregon. Check out her article!

http://www.seetoread.net/early-detection-leading-to-success-ella-osborne-crowned-miss-oregon/

Julia Rowland, Miss Florida Jr. Teen, donates supplies to Project Outreach and is featured by her local news.

Julia Rowland, Miss Florida Jr. Teen donates supplies to Project Outreach and is featured by her local news. Julia donated school supplies and books to Project Outreach and attended their back to school bash. Click on the link below to see her news story.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/26017829/local-teen-vying-to-be-queen#.U_8rs0hfEnI

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