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In honor of its 65th anniversary, the Miss New Bedford pageant is seeking contestants and will award a $6,500 college scholarship plus thousands in additional gifts and prizes. Thousands more in additional scholarship monies will be awarded among the remaining contestants.
No experience is necessary to compete and contestants do not need to be New Bedford residents.
Eligibility is open to women ages 17 to 24 who either live, work, or attend school in New Bedford, Acushnet, Assonet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Rochester, Wareham, or Westport.
An information session will be held on Thursday August 3rd at 6:00pm at the Cheryl McCormack Academy of Dance located at 731 Tarkiln Hill Road, New Bedford. Attendance does not obligate anyone to compete. This is for information only. If this date does not work, organizers are available to discuss a secondary date. To reserve a seat for the info session, email info@missnewbedford.org or call (508) 525-9972. You may also visit www.MissNewBedford.org or find ‘Miss New Bedford’ on Facebook.
This year’s winner will not only win scholarship money – she will win the year of a lifetime. She will fulfill a year-long reign of service to Greater New Bedford, plus all of this:
• A $6,500 scholarship plus thousands of dollars in redeemable prizes at businesses throughout the community. This includes personal trainers, makeup artistry, wardrobe allowances, hair/nail services, and more.
• The chance to develop confidence, poise, leadership skills, network and build relationships, engage with area officials and issues, and develop an incredible resume.
• A year devoted to a personal platform/issue of her choice. Past Miss New Bedford’s have dedicated their time to violence prevention, cancer awareness, literacy, reducing the dropout rate, arts programming for youth, and more.
• The incredible opportunity to represent New Bedford at the Miss Massachusetts pageant and compete for additional scholarship monies. Should she win, she will compete for the title of Miss America.
The Miss New Bedford pageant is an official preliminary to the Miss Massachusetts and Miss America pageants.The Miss New Bedford pageant is an outstanding leadership development program for all who compete and is the premier provider of scholarships for young women in the area.
