What are your Hobbies?
Sports: Basketball, Soccer, Cross-Country, Track (Distance), Softball

Performing Arts: Acting, Singing, Modeling, Dancing (Hip-Hop, Ballet, Jazz, Clarinet, Viola
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What makes you special and unique?
What makes me unique is my love for my brother and how I strive to be a good role model for him.
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What is the best advice you have ever received?
The best advice I have ever received is from my mother. She has been a great inspiration for me and once told me "Always keep your head up, and don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do!"
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Name one thing you cannot live without.
I definitely cannot live without the support of my friends and family. They always support me in what I beleive is the best decision for me.
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What's the most valuable lesson you've ever learned?
The most valuable lesson I have ever learned is the fact that you cannot give up on something simply because you are not exactly the best at the certain task. Is is always great to go through with what your intentions were in the first place.
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Who is your most valued role model and why?
My most valued role model would have to be my mother. She works very hard to keep both my brother and I happy at all times.
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What was your most unexpected moment?
My most unexpected moment was when I won my first middle school track meet this year. I worked very hard, and I never skipped a practice. Apparently, my determination paid off, because I am now on the Varsity track team.
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What is your workout routine?
Right now, my daily routine is to run 2-3 miles every day. I also have dance from Monday to Thursday, so I get a bit of a cool-down work out after my run.
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What has been your biggest accomplishment to date?
My biggest accomplishment has been simply getting this far in the Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen Pageant.
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What is the best compliment you have ever received?
The best compliment I have ever received is my ability to achieve my best at whatever I want to accomplish.
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What is your secret wish?
My secret wish is to have my own clinic when I become a doctor.
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What was your most embarrassing moment?
My most embarrassing moment is when I ran smack into a pole when I was talking to a friend on the way to lunch at school. Then I fell on the ground!
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What is your biggest guilty pleasure?
My guilty pleasure is drinking A LOT of Vault.
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What is your favorite movie and why?
My favorite movie is Step Up, because, first of all, I love dancing. It also has a wonderful story line, and there is never a dull moment.
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What do you like to do for fun... relaxation... recreation?
For fun, I love to go to the movies. I still like to go to the movies with my mom! She makes it a lot more fun. For relaxation, I like to...sleep, of course.
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What would be your dream vacation or destination?
My dream vacation is spend a long time in Mexico. The upper-classmen at my school went on a mission trip, and it seemed like they were able to help people and make friends at the same time.
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What do you like best about the state of Mississippi?
I love the fact that everyone gets along like family because of how the community reacts with each other.
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
In ten years, I see myself in medical school and running for the Miss Mississippi Pageants.
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What extracurricular activities do you participate in?
I am very athletic, and I enjoy basketball, soccer, softball, cross-country, track (distance), and playing football with my brother. I am actually on the varsity track, softball, and basketball team. I also sing, model, dance, play the viola & clarinet, and act in local theaters.
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Who am I?
First of all, I am 13 year old Denise Powell, Miss Tougaloo Outstanding Teen. For my talent, I will be playing the instrumentalist piece "Diamonds Are Forever" on the viola. I started playing the viola at the age of 10 in the CASA program in my elementary school. I now play the viola in the MS Youth Symphony Orchestra, and we recently went to Universal Studios and competed in the "Musicfest Orlando" competition and won first place. I also began playing the clarinet this year, in the 8th grade, in the school band at St. Joesph Catholic School. We have a lot of fun, and we are actually beginning to bond as if we are a family.

I have always been athletic, and I enjoy playing basketball, soccer, softball, cross-country, track, and pretty much anything you can have fun with while you exercise. I also made Varsity on the Softball and Track team this year in the 8th grade. My favorite food is pizza. We have it almost every weak at school. I guess you could say its kind of grown on me.

I started taking dance last year when I was 12, and I really like the experience. My favorite type of dance is Hip-Hop. My favorite movie happens to be "Step Up." Everything else kind of sums itself up. I am in this pageant to make friends, have fun, and do the best I can.
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Tell us about your platform.
My platform is childhood obesity. I chose this platform, because I want to give other children the same oppurtunity I had by making friends and staying in shape in local sports. My mother is a doctor, and she has been a great influence on my objectives on making my fellow peers better people.

I hope this pageant will help me accomplish my goals. Its a wonderful experience, and it gives me a wonderful chance to follow up on what I plan to achieve.
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