The Competition is a six-part series about one of America’s most lucrative scholarship programs for high school senior girls. Host Shima Oliaee takes listeners behind the scenes of the Distinguished Young Women program, which every year brings 50 girls, one from each state, to Mobile, Alabama, to vie for a huge cash prize. What can two weeks with 50 of the country’s most ambitious teens tell us about girlhood in America?
The Competition is a six-part series about one of America’s most lucrative scholarship programs for high school senior girls. Host Shima Oliaee takes listeners behind the scenes of the Distinguished Young Women program, which every year brings 50 girls, one from each state, to Mobile, Alabama, to vie for a huge cash prize. What can two weeks with 50 of the country’s most ambitious teens tell us about girlhood in America?