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WOR's Shining Star Talent Search 2008 Here's YOUR chance to be a STAR and a HERO to your school!	Made possible by WOR Radio 710 HD and:
Welcome to WOR Radio's 4th Annual Shining Star Talent Search benefiting tri-state New York City schools and students by supporting arts curriculums and providing cash prizes to winning students...and $10,000 goes to the school attended by the Shining Star winner!Students in grades 7-12 across the tri-state are invited to sing a song of their choice and to submit their recording to WOR Radio. Throughout the competition, students will be selected randomly to be interviewed and have their entries played on The WOR Morning Show with Joe Bartlett and Donna Hanover (airing Weekdays on WOR 710 from 5am-9am). After a rigorous internal judging process, the top 25 Semi-Finalists will each win $100 and perform live in front of their family, friends and a judging panel of entertainment industry professionals at WOR’s Shining Star Sing-Off in early June (date and location to be determined). The judges will choose their top six finalists whose performances will be aired on WOR and voted on by the listeners. The winner and second and third runners-up will perform before thousands of attendees at WOR’s Get Healthy Expo, an enormous event to be held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center on June 21st. The prizes to students are as follows: The Shining Star Winner gets $10,000 for their school and $2,500 and as a professional recording session with Kamen Entertainment Group NYC for themself. The 1st Runner-Up gets $1,500 and the 2nd Runner-Up gets $750. WOR Radio has a long tradition of supporting education and giving back to the communities we serve. Pop icon, Broadway performer, and original “Shining Star” winner Deborah Gibson attributes WOR with helping to get her career started when she won a WOR song writing competition.Contact your school's principal, drama teacher or choir teacher for more information, or download the Entry Materials using the link above. ©2008 WOR Radio 710 HD / New York

Welcome to WOR Radio's 4th Annual Shining Star Talent Search benefiting tri-state New York City schools and students by supporting arts curriculums and providing cash prizes to winning students...and $10,000 goes to the school attended by the Shining Star winner!Students in grades 7-12 across the tri-state are invited to sing a song of their choice and to submit their recording to WOR Radio.

Throughout the competition, students will be selected randomly to be interviewed and have their entries played on The WOR Morning Show with Joe Bartlett and Donna Hanover (airing Weekdays on WOR 710 from 5am-9am). After a rigorous internal judging process, the top 25 Semi-Finalists will each win $100 and perform live in front of their family, friends and a judging panel of entertainment industry professionals at WOR’s Shining Star Sing-Off in early June (date and location to be determined). The judges will choose their top six finalists whose performances will be aired on WOR and voted on by the listeners. The winner and second and third runners-up will perform before thousands of attendees at WOR’s Get Healthy Expo, an enormous event to be held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center on June 21st.

The prizes to students are as follows: The Shining Star Winner gets $10,000 for their school and $2,500 and as a professional recording session with Kamen Entertainment Group NYC for themself. The 1st Runner-Up gets $1,500 and the 2nd Runner-Up gets $750.

WOR Radio has a long tradition of supporting education and giving back to the communities we serve. Pop icon, Broadway performer, and original “Shining Star” winner Deborah Gibson attributes WOR with helping to get her career started when she won a WOR song writing competition.Contact your school's principal, drama teacher or choir teacher for more information, or download the Entry Materials using the link above.