Thousands of teens around the country entered their sketches at Alloy.com and 25 finalists were chosen and posted online where the public chose the winning entry.  Maggie's beautiful prom dress was made by Precious Formals.  She was able to wear it to the premiere of Screen Gems' Prom Night: a Night to Die For on April 9th in Los Angeles, along with her parents.

According to Maggie, "It was such an unreal experience! My mom and I were both star struck (not so much my dad... he didn't know who any of the stars were!)  It was a lot of fun, though."  They actually walked the red carpet right next to all of the characters in the movie and then saw the movie.  "That was a lot of fun.  None of us are really scary movie fans.  We all enjoyed it, though."

After the premier, the winner and her parents were invited to attend the after-party too. "We saw a bunch of the people from the movie (luckily not the killer because my mom and I would have freaked out.)   It was really neat there."  The party was a prom setting and even had a "Welcome Bridgemont High Students" sign and a 'prom' picture taken for a keepsake for attendees.

Hardesty, who plans to study Graphic Design in college, came across the contest while surfing the internet one day and decided to enter.  She said she's always wanted an emerald green dress and had never been able to find just the right thing in stores.  "I've never entered a contest like this before, but this one seemed like the one for me because I love to draw and I love fashion!"

Entrants were judged on the basis of originality, practicality of commercially reasonable manufacture and wearability, and clarity and quality of presentation. 25 finalists were chosen and visitors to alloy.com could vote for two weeks in February, applying the same judging criteria used by the judges. The finalists' Digital Images can be seen at www.alloy.com/promnight

Hardesty, who graduates in June, first heard she won via email notification. "My mom actually saw it first and I heard her shouting downstairs that I had to come look at something.  We were both really excited."  Maggie is modest about her win and feels her design wasn't that unique.  "It really wasn't even anything special.  I had worked on drawing a different dress for about an hour and I decided I didn't like it so I threw together a completely different dress in about ten minutes and it ended up winning."   Lucky for Maggie, the judges and voters disagreed.