America's Junior Miss is a national's non-profit organization that provies scholarship opportunities to high school junior girls. Only young females in their junior year of high school are eligible for the program. This program provides the young ladies with the opportunity and support needed to succeed before, during, and after attending college. Since its existence in 1958, over 500,000 young ladies have participated in competitions spanning the United States. Each state hosts a state program in which the winning representative advances to the national program, America's Junior Miss held in the program's birthplace of Mobile, Alabama.