February 20, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: Al Smith Georgia’s Junior Miss Program Phone: 404-569-4592 E-mail: gjmsmith@live.com GEORGIA’s Junior Miss Scholarship Program Announces Cobb County Participants for 2011 The Georgia’s Junior Miss scholarship program is proud to announce the selection of three young women as participants in the 2011 Junior Miss class in an at-large evaluation held at the Woodstock Community Church on February 20. Miss Spencer Hanson of Lassiter High was selected as Roswell’s Junior Miss; Miss Lindsay Hopkins of Lassiter High was selected as Marietta’s Junior Miss; and Miss Emily Keyzer-Andre of Kennesaw Mountain High was selected Kennesaw’s Junior Miss. The at-large programs are available to interested participants that reside in areas of Georgia that do not currently conduct a local program. There are additional at-large events scheduled in the coming months around the state for others who are interested in participating. These young women are now eligible to participate in the Georgia’s Junior Miss state program on July 10th, 2010 in Marietta. The young woman selected to be the 2011 Georgia’s Junior Miss will travel to Mobile, Alabama, to participate in the AJM National Finals where she will have an opportunity to win the title of America’s Junior Miss, a share of $125,000 in cash scholarships, and college scholarships to more than 200 colleges and universities across the nation. Georgia’s Junior Miss Scholarship Program is an official preliminary of America’s Junior Miss (AJM), the oldest and largest scholarship program for high school senior females of its type. Since 1958, AJM has awarded more than $92 million in cash scholarships and provided thousands of young women with college granted scholarships to colleges and universities across the nation. Each year, AJM makes available more than $52 million in scholarship opportunities to high school senior women. In addition to providing scholarships, AJM challenges each participant to share its national outreach program, Be Your Best Self (BYBS), with young people across the nation. Through BYBS, Junior Misses encourage self esteem and excellence in all young people through the program’s five principles: Be healthy, Be Involved, Be Studious, Be Ambitious, and Be Responsible. The 2009 - 2010 National Sponsors for AJM are the City of Mobile and Mobile County. Category sponsors are Alabama Power, Encore Rehabilitation, Mobile Gas, and Regions Bank. For more information on AJM, contact Cassidy Grimes, Public Relations Director, at 251.622.5335 or visit the AJM Web site at "http://www.ajm.org"