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20 November 2009
Little Miss TRIO 2nd Annual Beauty Pageant
On Saturday November 14, 2009 the 2nd annual Little Miss TRIO Beauty Pageant was a wonderful experience as Medgar Evers College of professionals youth program in coordination with S.O.Y.T.A (Save Our Youth Through Arts) program came together to presents “Little Miss TRIO” beauty pageant Egyptian style. The event took place at Medgar Evers college coordinated by Sandra Johnson Director of Medgar Evers College youth program along with Naskish Jackson Grant Director of the S.O.Y.T.A program. There were 3 wonderful judges who sat on the panel and scored the young ladies although everyone was a winner there was those that received a grand prize. Radio/Television personality Dee Vazquez, Model/Actress Liris Crosse and Actor/Television host Emmi Grullon all came out to judge this wonderful event and cheered the girls on.
The event started out as the 25 young ladies ages 3-12yrs of age introduced themselves and the divisions that they were walking in. The divisions consisted of the Sweet Hearts division 3-4yr olds, The Princess division 5-8yr olds and The Misses division 9-12 yr olds. The young ladies had a quote for each introduction one quote was, “When I grow up I would like to be a hair stylist and a model and I’m from Maple Shade New Jersey and I am Tyrah Odom,” said 4 year old Tyrah Odom with much confidence one of the pageants grand prize winners from the sweet hearts division.
The pageant begins with last year winners Zion Rheubottom of the Sweet Hearts division, Moniqua Brown of the Princess division and Monea Mack of The Misses division all giving a speech and passing over their crowns.
The pageant presented 6 categories which were Casual Wear, Fashion Punk, Character Effect, Talent, Egyptian Wear and Formal Wear, where girls in each division participated giving the judges and the audience their very best performance. After each category there was a special performance, the CYPAO dance team was the first to perform after casual wear as our little beauties got ready for the next segment. The SUAW another dance group performed after the fashion punk segment and then dancers from the Crown Heights Beacon Center PS 138 the Lil Divas In Motion performed after the Character Effect segment. There was also a martial arts performance as instructor Jason Banks led the young group as they presented self defense mechanisms to the audience. Then the young ladies went on to show the judges their talent, which the young ladies from each division did something to show why they should become Little Miss TRIO.
There was a raffle drawing where 4 bikes were given away to the raffle winners and also a moment of silence and a great performance as 5 year old Shamar Dudley gave tribute to Michael Jackson with song and dance. The evening went on to present the awards for the online viewer’s choice competition for Little Miss Minnie TRIO for infants and toddlers ages 1months-2yrs of age. Egyptian Wear, the theme of the night and Formal Wear were the last two categories showing our beautiful young divas. Following Formal Wear, the judges tallied up the scores and the grand prize winners were chosen from each division although all the young women received trophies and sashes.
The winners for 2009 Little Miss TRIO beauty pageant for the Sweet Hearts division was 4 year old Tyrah Odom who won the grand supreme trophy while scoring 10’s across the board winning over the judges each time she step out to show them why she should be Little Miss Trio. The winner for The Princess division was 8 yr old Deliayh Evans as she was chosen for Directors Choice as she gave her very best performance winning the judges and the director over. The winner for The Misses division was 10yr old Latisha Jackson who left last year’s pageant not a grand prize winner but with hope to be a grand prize winner this year and her hard work paid off as she showed the judges all that she can be with her great performances.
All young ladies that participated were happy with receiving their trophies and smiled while taking photos showing everyone their enjoyment for being a part of the “Little Miss TRIO” beauty pageant. The young winners will also get to spend a day with a female celebrity as she shows the young women what it’s like living a day in her life showing them the value of hard work.
Little Miss TRIO, TRIO standing for Truly Real Inside & Out was started by Naskish Jackson Grant a member of TRIO Entertainment and also Director of the S.O.Y.T.A (Saving Our Youth Through Arts) program. Naskish along with Medgar Evers College of professionals youth program presents Little Miss Trio Beauty pageant to the Brooklyn communities annually while allowing young women from all over the globe to come out and be a part of the wonderful experience. “With the S.O.Y.T.A. program I want to give young people an outlet to come out and be a part of something that they truly love doing. We have performing arts programs for youth the ages of 3 to 20 yrs of age and they come out and sit with our volunteers who are a part of the fashion industry, music industry and performing arts industry, all who take their time to show these young people what it takes to perfect their craft and take it to the next level. Little Miss TRIO is for our younger women ages 3-12yrs old but we have programs for the young men and older youth as well in which we will present what they do as well. I will continue to work with the children as they are my passion.” Says Naskish Jackson Grant program Director of SOYTA.
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