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Miss Missouri Volunteer America Pageant crowns Zoie McDonald Miss Sikeston Teen
KIRKWOOD, Mo. — A Sikeston, Missouri, teenager recently earned the title of Miss Sikeston Teen and advanced to a new pageant next month in Kirkwood.
Zoie McDonald will compete in the Inaugural Miss Missouri Teen Volunteer America Pageant Jan. 6-8, 2022, at the Ross Family Theatre Kirkwood Performing Arts Center in Kirkwood. The Miss Missouri Teen Volunteer Pageant announced it will be giving away over $25,000 in scholarships in its first year.
McDonald will compete in the areas of interview, talent, evening gown, fitness and wellness and on-stage question. If she wins, she will go on to compete at the national Miss Teen Volunteer America Pageant where even more scholarships will be awarded. Tickets to pageant can purchased each night at the door.
The Miss Teen Volunteer America Organization is a nationwide, service-oriented scholarship program based in Tennessee that seeks to empower young women across the country. It focuses on the five points of its crown, S.E.R.V.E. which means service, education, responsibility, volunteerism and empowerment.
“I’m excited to have girls from our area competing in this new program,” said Miss Missouri Advisory Member Erin Bell Garner of Dexter, Missouri. “I was able to make so many friendships will girls all over the state when I competed.”
In 2019, Miss Tennessee Volunteer left the Miss America program and founded its own statewide program. Allison DeMarcus, together with a group of dedicated volunteers, expanded that into Miss Volunteer America making it a nationwide service-oriented, scholarship program in early 2021.
Through educational scholarships and extraordinary opportunities, the program seeks to empower young women across the country. With philanthropy and scholarship at the forefront, each young woman must have a cause or charity of her choosing that she will champion should she be selected as a titleholder. Miss Volunteer America motivates contestants to create their own unique definition of beauty, the firm belief that nothing is more beautiful than that of a good heart. That belief system is the inspiration and bedrock for the Volunteer program.