{"id":38605,"date":"2025-07-01T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38605"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:43:05","slug":"furman-bound-miss-south-carolinas-teen-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-bound-miss-south-carolinas-teen-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman bound: Miss South Carolina&#8217;s Teen 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38606\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38606\" class=\"wp-image-38606 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/07\/miss-south-carolina-teen-crowned-400.jpg\" alt=\"white woman with blond hair wears crown and formal attire\" width=\"309\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/07\/miss-south-carolina-teen-crowned-400.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/07\/miss-south-carolina-teen-crowned-400-116x150.jpg 116w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 309px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 309\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess Ferm, an incoming Furman first-year student, was crowned Miss South Carolina&#8217;s Teen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tess Ferm was crowned Miss South Carolina&#8217;s Teen on Friday, June 27, in Columbia. She is a graduate of Porter-Gaud High School in Charleston and plans to study psychology at Furman University this fall.\u00a0 Ferm champions a community service initiative, &#8220;From Fear to Freedom,&#8221; which advocates for food allergy awareness and education &#8211; a program born out of Ferm&#8217;s own struggles with anaphylactic food allergies. For her talent, she performed &#8220;Tomorrow&#8221; from the musical &#8220;Annie.&#8221; Columbia ABC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abccolumbia.com\/2025\/06\/28\/new-miss-south-carolinas-teen-crowned\/\">WOLO 25<\/a> covered the news on Friday and spoke with Ferm and the newly crowned Miss South Carolina on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abccolumbia.com\/2025\/06\/30\/day-1-of-their-reign-meet-the-new-miss-south-carolina-miss-south-carolinas-teen\/\">Saturday<\/a>. Ferm won a $12,500 scholarship from the Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization and will compete this fall in the Miss America Teen competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University is the college home for Miss South Carolina&#8217;s Teen. Tess Ferm (right) of Charleston was crowned on Friday, June 27. She plans to study psychology at the university. ABC 25 Columbia covered the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,48,3448],"tags":[3449,3450],"class_list":["post-38605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-psychology","category-wolo-abc-25-columbia","tag-miss-south-carolina-teen","tag-tess-ferm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38610,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605\/revisions\/38610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}