Frogs Are Cool, But Captain Todd Is Not ;-)

There is one song in particular that has swept through MSC 2017 Sr. Week, and it’s about frogs, and our beloved Director Todd Hall. First Year Camper Isaac Dispennett became an instant rock star when he performed “Frogs” during the MSC Talent Show, followed up with a modified version simply called “Todd.” Well, “Todd” has taken camp by storm,…

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And the Craft Winners Are…

Craft Director Julie Essary and assistant Teresa Butler did a fantastic job planning and hosting crafts this year. Campers of all ages, both male and female, seemed to gravitate toward the craft hall when they had free time or team time to work on decorating their team craft, the wooden log cabin birdhouse, as well as their individual craft, a…

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MSC Lip Sync Battle of the Decades

Tonight, MSC took it all the way back through the last five decades for the highly anticipated Lip Sync competition.  All ten teams did a fantastic job lip syncing, as well as dressing in appropriate outfits, including hair, for their particular decade. And the participants for the 2017 MSC Lip Sync Battle of the Decades were: 1960’s Hunter Team…

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Thursday Scoreboard

Softball Green (20) vs. Gold (17) Blue (20) vs. Lime (14) Orange (20) vs. Pink (11) Silver (17) vs. Hunter (5) Purple (16) vs. Red (15)   Canoe Heats Pink — 16:43 Gold — 16:59 Lime — 18:12 Silver — 18:33 Blue — 18:48 Green — 19:18 Hunter — 21:13 Red — 21:49 Purple — 23:29 Orange — 23:35…

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Projectile Avoidance

Also during this afternoon’s rotations, each team competed in three rousing games of Projectile Avoidance (which some may say seems a lot like dodge ball, which the staff can neither confirm nor deny 😉 ).  While the teams were throwing various-sized rubber balls at their opponents, team captains got a great workout shagging balls for their teams.  There are…

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Canoe Heats

Canoeologists Shannon & Dana Shaffer welcomed all the campers to Lake Shakamak this afternoon for the highly-anticipated canoe heats. Two teams were pitted against each other during each rotation this afternoon and navigated the lake paddling opposite directions around a T-formation. Each team was also given three balls to attempt to make a basket in a two-ring basketball hoop…

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“Deal or No Deal”

Howie Mandel (aka MSC Blogger Michael Stout) came all the way to Shakamak this afternoon to host ten exciting games of “Deal or No Deal.”  Each team played DOND to win points ranging from 1 – 2000.  There were some extremely intense games, some which worked out for some very respectable amounts of points (highest score of 1334), while…

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