Centre County's Outstanding Young Woman Program

 

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Congratulations Jessica Maynor

Centre County's Outstanding Young Woman 2010


 

 

UPCOMING PROGRAM EVENTS

RECRUITING SESSIONS FOR 2011 PROGRAM: Members of Centre County's Outstanding Young Women program, past finalists, and Board members will be visiting area High Schools to discuss the Outstanding Young Women Program and Preliminary/Application process.  The schedule for the OYW High School Presentations is:

State College Area High School - Wednesday, February 17th at 9am in the North Building Guidance Office

Grace Prep Academy - Thursday, February 18th at 2:15pm

Penns Valley High School - Friday, February 19th at 9:50am in the Auditorium

Bellefonte Area High School - Thursday, February 25th at 10:30am in the Guidance Office                        

Bald Eagle Area High School - Tuesday, March 2nd at 9:00 am in the Guidance Office

Philipsburg Osceola Senior High School - TBD

 

APPLICATIONS FOR 2011 OYW PROGRAM: Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 OYW Program.  All applications must be postmarked no later than March 10, 2010.  Send completed applications to Julia Cronin Rater at:

Julia Cronin Rater
614 Devonshire Drive
State College, PA 16803

You may email your applications to Julia Rater at jcroninrater@mqblaw.com, but you are still required to send the original application in the mail (postmarked by March 10, 2010).  For more information, contact Julia Cronin Rater at (814) 235-5554 or Chris Marshall at (814) 574-2982.

Application Materials

All applications must complete the Entry Application and Records Release and submit them by March 10, 2010. Application materials can be obtained at your school or downloaded here for completion and submission.

Entry Application Form

Records Release By School - The Records Release Form and directions varies by school

Records Release - Bald Eagle Area High School

Records Release - Bellefonte Area High School

Records Release - Grace Prep

Records Release - Penns Valley High School

Records Release - Philipsburg Osceola Senior High School

Records Release - State College Area High School

 

PRELIMINARIES: Preliminaries for the 2011 OYW Program will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at Park Forest Middle School in State College.  The preliminary schedule will be determined and distributed to applicants by Monday, March 15th.  For preliminaries, you will be required to attend an 8 minute interview before a panel of 5 judges and do a performing arts presentation (2 minutes or less in length) before a panel of 5 judges.  For additional information on the Performing Arts portion of Preliminaries, please refer to the Information For Performing Arts Auditions.

 

OYW ORIENTATION: The OYW Orientation will be held in April.  The date, time, and location of this event will announced soon.  Attendance at the Orientation is required for all girls chosen as finalists for the 2011 Program.  This is an opportunity for the finalists and their parents to meet each other, meet the volunteers involved with the Centre County OYW program and learn more about the program.  The finalists and parents will rotate in small groups to hear presentations on Judging, Photos, Big Sisters, Talent, etc... and will be given detailed information on events and practice schedules.

 

2011 CENTRE COUNTY OUTSTANDING YOUNG WOMAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: The 2011 Centre County OYW Scholarship Program will be held on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 7pm.  The event location will be announced soon.
 


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