Youth title looks for top teen achievers

Launched in 2005 as a drive to highlight and reward the incredible accomplishments and contributions of South Africa's teen girls, the competition is a youth initiative that focuses on role models while encouraging teen girls to look at success as more than just being top of your class, or how much money you earn.

2007's competition, brought to you by Standard Bank in association with go, DStv channel 10, calls for teen girls to enter by sending in a motivating letter and their CV for any one of the four categories: Do-gooder, Next Big Thing, Gold Medallist and Miss Independent.

Prizes are R5000 cash in a Standard Bank Student Achiever Account, a Hip Hop dress worth R1500, Clinique skincare and makeup products, underwear from Girl Inc., Vogue sunglasses and other goodies.

This awards ceremony takes place on 6 December 2007 at Melrose Arch's The Venue, and will be attended by the country's top celebs, youth brand managers and seventeen's UrbanScout, with a performance by SA's Rory Elliott.

Over and above the exposure at the event, the winners will feature in a six-page spread in seventeen's December issue, which each guest will receive.

2007's competition kicked off with a call to entry in the July/August issue of seventeen, which went on sale 4 July at all major retailers.