The Tulip Queen serves as Albany's Ambassador for one full year of reign. She and her court will spend that year involved in volunteer projects, including the Mayor Jerry Jennings' Literacy Campaign, which strives to promote the value of reading to children. The 2009 Tulip Queen and Court have teamed up with the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region to create a trust fund for future Tulip Queens and Courts to award grants to local literacy organizations. Each Queen and Court develops initiatives to further their goals and attends numerous events throughout the year focusing on education and community awareness.

The nominees attend a series of interviews and finalists are announced in early May. The Queen is crowned in an elaborate coronation ceremony on Tulip Festival Saturday. She will receive a $5,000 scholarship, and each Court member $1,500. The 62nd Annual Albany Tulip Festival will be held on May 8 & 9, 2010.

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Each year, the Tulip Queen and Court spend their reign developing programs for the Mayor Gerald D. Jennings Literacy Campaign which promotes the value of reading to children & adults. Learn more about our Literacy Program

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Juliana Hernandez Request the Queen & Court

Juliana is a Senior (recent graduate after May) at the College of St Rose focusing on Public Communications and Spanish. Keep Reading

Posted by: Carly Brooks, 2009 Tulip Court

Thursday February 4, 2010

  Hello everyone!     We've been extremely busy throughout the past couple of months. December brought the Albany Winter Festival; a freezing but fun day where we were fortunate to meet Radio Disney singer, Savannah Outen. Also, the girls at Girls Inc. bravely performed the "Party in the USA" dance in front of all of their peers at their Holiday party. Watching them dance was particularly exciting for us because it was a depiction of their gained confidence, one of the original goals we set when beginning the program.     Although we have done lots of exciting and meaningful things throughout the year, January has so far been my favorite month. We've begun to focus our time extensively on our literacy program at Girls Inc., as well as beginning work at 15 Love. 15 Love is a program targeted at high school students that combines learning with tennis. Since we are all in college or recently graduated, our role in the program is to offer advice to the students and work on college-oriented activities to help them prepare for this exciting new chapter in their lives. In January, Steph and I also got to attend one of our favorite literacy programs, the Salvation Army Literacy night for a Spaghetti themed night.     Additionally, the girls and I have taken time to reflect together on the many events we have attended throughout the year. We've bonded over making scrap books of pictures taken at events and even had an international dinner. We have also been working very hard on our final initiative for the year; a fundraiser for the Tulip Fund. We only have a few months left before a new Queen and Court will take over our reign, so we're all very excited for the Fundraiser as our last big event as the 2009 Tulip Queen and Court. Our Fundraiser will be a fun night that will help raise money to support future literacy initiatives and charitable events. We hope you all can attend!  
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