The Miss America Organization is one of the nation's leading achievement programs and remains the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women - awarding more than $45 million in cash and scholarship assistance. Awarding more than $10,000 in Scholarships at the local level in 2010, once again the Miss Troup County Scholarship Program ranked second highest in the State of Georgia in the amount of cash scholarships.
Miss Troup County is an official preliminary to the Miss Georgia and Miss America pageants.

Miss America’s Outstanding Teen, Inc. has been organized to encourage positive achievement by helping to nurture and build the scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement of our nation’s youth. Among its initiatives, the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen hosts a national competition intended to encourage and reward the talent, communication skills, community service, and academic achievement of girls between 13 and 17 years of age. For more information on the Miss America's Outstanding Teen program, please visit their website.