Type | Beauty pageant |
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Parent organization | Miss America Organization |
Headquarters | Wellington, Florida |
Country represented | United States |
First edition | 2006 |
Most recent edition | 2024 |
Current titleholder | Hanley House North Carolina |
Robin Ross-Fleming | |
Formerly called | Miss America’s Outstanding Teen |
Language | English |
Website | missamerica |
Miss America's Teen is an American scholarship pageant. It is the sister program to the Miss America Opportunity, and it aims to "promote scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement for America's teens." In order to be eligible to compete, participants must first compete and win at the local level and then win the state title. The competition consists of several parts of competition which consists of an eight-minute interview in front of a panel of judges, talent, lifestyle and wellness, evening wear, and an on-stage question. All competitors must be girls between the ages of 13 and 18 years of age.[1]
More than $113,000 in scholarship grants were distributed among the 51 contestants in the pageant along with $29 Million in in-kind tuition with 7 universities, with a $30,000 scholarship being awarded to the winner. The chairwoman for the Miss America's Teen program is Miss America CEO, Robin Fleming.
The current titleholder is Hanley House of North Carolina, who was crowned in Orlando, Florida, on January 13, 2024.
In January 2023, the official name of the pageant was changed from Miss America’s Outstanding Teen to Miss America’s Teen.