Best Overall Interview - $50

The winner of this optional is selected based upon the highest Interview competition score in the pageant from the contestants who paid to enter this optional.

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Best Overall Evening Gown - $50

The winner of this optional is selected based upon the highest Evening Gown competition score in the pageant from the contestants who paid to enter this optional.

Best Overall Fun Fashion - $50

The winner of this optional is selected based upon the highest Fun Fashion competition score in the pageant from the contestants who paid to enter this optional.

 

Best Overall Photogenic - $50

The winner of this optional is selected based upon the highest Photogenic optional entry score in the pageant from the contestants who paid to enter this optional.
 

Empowerment Award - $75.00

At the Miss Sunshine Charity Pageant we celebrate involvement in your community through service, volunteering, promoting your personal platform and/or charity of choice, and promoting our motto “Spreading Sunshine Through Kindness”. Through this award, we want to promote and celebrate individual growth, confidence, self-esteem and sense of self and value, and the importance of empowering individuals.

 

Our Empowerment Award winner will be awarded a beautiful plaque and a $300.00 cash prize for First Place and $200.00 Cash Prize for Second Place.

 

Requirements:

• Registration fee to enter: $75.00

• Submit an essay of 500 words minimum about your volunteer work experience.

• Submit a Volunteer Portfolio – should include a list of volunteer activities from the last 2 years, including photos, letters certifying hours, awards (if applicable) and letter of recommendations (via email @ infomisssunshinecharitypageant@gmail.com).

 

Deadline for Empowerment Award Registration and Materials submission:

• Friday, August 15, 2025, by the end of business day

 

Judging:

• The Empowerment Award is judged by a separate panel of judges from the overall competition for the divisional titles and is based on a separate criteria that focuses on community service.