FORT WALTON BEACH — A Crestview teenager is among participants in the Distinguished Young Women's Okaloosa County scholarship program, which is scheduled for Saturday.
The program— 7 p.m. at the Fort Walton Beach Civic Auditorium, 107 Miracle Strip Parkway SW, Fort Walton Beach — features: Sarah Craig, Crestview; Colleen Ellis, Courtney Hoover, Mary Claire “MC” Cockrum, Grace Barton, Carmen Little, Madison “Mimi” Taylor and Ellis Daughterty, Niceville; Lauren Kubelka and Emileigh Gaddis, Destin; and Cynthia “CJ” McDonald and Brianna “Bri” Fallon, Fort Walton Beach.
Evaluation categories include Scholastics, Interview, Talent, Fitness and Self-Expression.
Community service is a significant part of the scholarship program, and Okaloosa County’s DYW Class of 2016 has already been active in their communities presenting the outreach program, “Be Your Best Self." The BYBS program encourages girls and young women to be healthy, ambitious, involved, responsible and studious.
Before the Saturday evening program, the 12 participants will have been scored and ranked scholastically, have presented their BYBS programs for an award, and will have completed interviews with the judges.
See www.facebook.com/pages/Distinguished-Young-Women-of-Okaloosa-County-FL for more information on Okaloosa County’s Distinguished Young Woman program
DID YOU KNOW?
Distinguished Young Women, formerly America’s Junior Miss, began in 1958 with national headquarters in Mobile, Ala. It is the largest, oldest national scholarship program for rising high school senior girls.
Evaluation categories include Scholastics, Interview, Talent, Fitness and Self-Expression.Over 700,000 young women have competed at the local, state and national levels, winning college scholarship money at each level.
THIS WEEKEND
WHAT: Distinguished Young Women's Okaloosa County scholarship program
WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday, July 18
WHERE: Fort Walton Beach Civic Auditorium, 107 Miracle Strip Parkway SW, Fort Walton Beach
COST: $10 for adults; souvenir programs available for purchase
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