SCATICO BLOG
Virtual Game Show
Scatico’s first-ever virtual game show!
Game show nights— from “Family Feud”, to “Minute to Win It”, to “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” (back when it was popular)— are a staple Scatico evening activity. Now we’ve infused it with a virtual twist!
Co-hosted by Scaticonians Jane Rosenfeld and Chase Madorsky, filled with Scatico trivia, and featuring surprise special guests, this was an evening activity for the books!
ANSWERS AND RESULTS!
Congratulations to our winners!
4th Place- Julia, Kate and mom Beth Metzendorf with 50 points
3rd Place a THREE-WAY TIE- Vivi + Georgie Loigman; Alex + Jared Googel; and the Krane/Gornstein/Hartstein cousins power team (Fallon, Hillary, Scarlett, Jared + Asher) with 51 points
2nd Place- Rosh family (Lauren, Emma, David + Jess) with 53 points
1st place- Lucy + mom Laura Mandel with 55 points
MISSED THE SHOW AND STILL WANT TO PLAY?
Virtual Cooking with Ally
We’re pumped to announce that this #ScaticoThursday we’re getting ready for making s’mores brownies (the clear vote winner) with Chef Ally!
Get ready to make s’mores brownies (the clear vote winner) with Chef Ally!
If you couldn’t catch Sunday’s instagram live, here are all the ingredients and tools you’ll need, plus Chef Ally’s demo and recipe.
Remember, send photos of your completed project to nicki@scatico.com— for every submissions we’re donating to Feeding America!
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
Grease your baking pan to prevent sticking
Add 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (or whichever kind you have!) and 1 stick of unsalted butter into medium saucepan. Place on stove over LOW heat and slowly stir with cooking spoon until fully melted. This may take a few minutes; keep mixture moving for smooth consistency (and so nothing burns). When fully melted, take off heat.
Add 3/4 light brown sugar and 3/4 cups granulated white sugar to melted chocolate chip and butter mix. Mix well with whisk or cooking spoon. It’s OK to substitute whatever sugar you have available! Mixture should be pretty thick when finished.
Make sure your mixture is cooled. Add four eggs. Mix well. Mixture should now have the consistency of batter.
Add 1tsp vanilla. Mix in.
Slowly add 1 cup of flour. Fully integrate the flour into your batter. Add it slowly so your flour doesn’t get all over the place!
Add 1/2 tsp salt and mix in. Put batter mixture to the side.
Line the bottom of your greased baking pan with graham crackers. Don’t crumble them! Treat the graham crackers “like a puzzle” and fit in the pieces as best you can. It’s ok if you need to break some into smaller pieces, and it’s a little uneven.
Pour the batter into the pan on top of the graham crackers. Make sure you spread it out evenly and don’t get any on the sides, which will burn!
Put pan into the oven for 35 minutes.
Remove from oven, and add mini marshmallows (or larger marshmallows torn up) and 1 cup mini chocolate chips to the top of your brownies. Feel free to add more or less marshmallows or chocolate chips depending on your preferences! You could also do 1/2 pan regular brownies, 1/2 with s’more topping !
Put pan back into the oven for 10 minutes, until marshmallows and chocolate on top melty. If you’d like, you can broil for 30 seconds to get that golden s’more quality on your marshmallows afterwards.
Let sit and cool for around 40 minutes and then eat! YUM!
S’MORE SUBMISSIONS
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Virtual Novelty Challenge
Our next virtual activity is… a novelty challenge!!!
VIRTUAL NOVELTY CHALLENGE
Our latest virtual activity … a novelty challenge!!! It’s hard to recreate the communal feeling of a College Bowl or Tribes campfire, or the intensity of a Color War activity, but we can still feel the Scatico spirit through the screen.
See all the virtual submissions in the video below:
Scatico March Madness
Welcome to the official page for all things Scatico March Madness!!!
Welcome to the official page for all things Scatico March Madness!!!
ANALYSIS + RESULTS
SCATICONIAN BRACKETS
What do people have in their final four? Check everyone’s brackets below, listed alphabetically by first name!…
AIDAN ROGERS
ALEX GOOGEL
ALEX (PERU) JARAMILLO
ANDREW BIALEK
BEN MOYAL
BEN (BUBBA) + ALLIE PUTZER
BENNET SANDERS
BETH METZENDORF
BRETT SIMONS
BRYCE HOLDEN
CHARLIE WEINSTEIN
CHARLOTTE MARK
CORY SCHWARTZ
COURTNEY LESSER
DANIEL KOVACS
DAVID FLEISCHNER
DIANA WALLERSTEIN
DIEGO GROOM
DORI CHAIT
DREW WINIARSKI
DREW SCHWARTZ
ELLIS + DAPHNE ZUCKERMAN
GEORGIE LOIGMAN
HANNAH HOLDEN
IRWIN SCHWARTZ + HENRY MAX
JAKE SCHUMER
JAMIE ROSH
JAMIE SEGAL
JAMIE SILVERMAN
JANE GREELEY
JARED SIMONS
JENNA + MARLY FASS
JIM HOSKING
JON HARRIS
JOSH TRICHON
JULIE GREELEY
JULIA METZENDORF
KATE GREELEY
KATE METZENDORF
KERRI WINDERMAN
LEXI SCHWARTZ
LINDSEY SHERMAN
LOLLI KAHN
LUCY CHESTLER
MADORSKY FAMILY
MAGGIE BROWN
MARK GRETTENSTEIN
MARLEY VOGEL
MATT STUTTMAN
MIA GROOM
NICKI FLEISCHNER
OLIVER MARK
OSCAR STRICKLAND
OZ + LILAH RUBINSON
RAFAEL GROOM
RYAN DERASSE
SADIE VANDERCAR
SAM RYAN
SAM JOSEPHSON
SAMARA CHAIT
SARAH MOYAL
SOOPERS 2011!
SOPHIE ROSEN
TEDDY WEINSTEIN
TYLER WINDERMAN
VIVI LOIGMAN
ZACH CHAIT
ZACH WAYNE
Virtual Art + Talent Show
Over 40 Scaticonians across 3 continents (and including campers, staff and alum!) participated in the virtual art and talent show!
VIRTUAL ART + TALENT SHOW
Over 40 Scaticonians (campers, staff and alum!) across 3 continents participated in Scatico’s first-ever virtual art and talent show! The evening served as a true testament to the power of camp and connection, even amid extraordinary times. Soaking in all of the submissions, in some ways it felt like we were right back in Elizaville— taking a tour of the “gallery” in the canteen extension and settling into our seats in the amphitheatre as the sun dipped below the tree line.
The show also served as a much-appreciated reminder of the creativity, resourcefulness, and resilience of our camp community. Every submission had its own unique twist, its own touch of camp spirit, even though they were pulled together at a moment’s notice. As camp people we’re used to working with tight time frames. Forty minutes to choreograph and memorize a routine for evening activity that same day? No problem.
We know the coming weeks will bring unexpected challenges. Whenever you need that dose of camp magic, you can always revisit the art and talents right here! We know we’ll be doing that plenty….
ART SHOW SUBMISSIONS
** Hover your mouse over the piece to see who it is by!!**
Talent Show Submissions
Virtual Scatico Announcement
To Our Scatico Family,
In times like these, we need our communities and support systems more than ever. We have been thinking of you, and of our favorite Scatico moments— walks along the tree-lined path, a jump in the lake on a super hot day, the crack of a softball off a bat in twilight league.
As Scatico, we always say we live 10 for 2… and we thought now would be a great time to bring that motto to (virtual) life. So every week we are going to celebrate a #ScaticoThursday with a different camp-focused activity, project, or moment of connection for us to take part in and share from our homes.
You can follow along on both our Facebook and Instagram pages, or we’ll also be posting all the calls to action and submissions here on our blog!
Even though we can’t physically be together, we can keep the magic of Scatico alive!
Boys Color War!
For a maybe first in Scatico history (at least in David’s memory) boys Color War broke at the morning flag-raising on Saturday, with a color war sign hidden in the folded flag that the Upper Seniors raised. Everyone thought it was going to break the night before, when the boys camp buried a time capsule at the site of the old stables (more on that in our next blog post).
The next few days are for all-out competition, tradition, spirit, and sportsmanship! Best of luck to both the green and grey.
Girls Color War!
Following dinner on Sunday night, girls side was in for a surprise. Fortune cookies containing the messages “We see green and grey in your future” and “Divided into teams, but united in spirit” were for dessert. It could only mean one thing…. COLOR WAR!
Following dinner everyone rushed to the tennis courts to observe Sooper tennis and participate in divisional dodgeball in order to learn their team colors. Over the next week Green and Grey will compete in a wide range of activities: sports, art, singing, swimming, are more. Can’t wait to see what Color War 2019 has in store.
CIT Trip to the DR
Our 25 CITs are on the north coast of the Dominican Republic this week…
Our 25 CITs are on the north coast of the Dominican Republic this week, working with local non-profit The DREAM Project to run a day camp for some 80 Dominican kids. Follow along with their adventure at citdream.wordpress.com.
Summer 2019, Edition #3: July 10 - July 17
A funny thing happened in the off-season this past year.
Something surprising happened in the off-season this past year. While at the Tri-State Camp Conference— a huge convention that brings camps from around the country to Atlantic City in March each year— David Fleischner had an unexpected run in. He was walking the vendor floor, where various companies sell things like lake inflatables, magician services, peanut butter alternatives, and logo-d gear (you know, camp stuff), when a woman stopped him.
“Scatico?” she asked, pointing to the name emblazoned in the corner of David’s shirt. “Where did you get that name from?”
“I believe our camp was named for the Native American tribe that used to live around the area where our camp was founded,” David explained. “A lot of camp’s started in the 1920s and 30s did that.”
The woman smiled.
We soon discovered that she was none other than the spouse of the Sachem, or chief, of the Schaghticoke Nation… the very tribe Camp Scatico was named for. Her husband is a consultant on conservation and an environmental educator (who has even worked on projects for the United Nations).
As David always says, things happen for a reason. We knew this was an opportunity that the Scatico community could not miss out on— an opportunity to connect with our true history, and to form a new tradition at camp.
Hawk, Sachem of Schaghticoke Nation
And so this past week, we invited the Sachem, Hawk, and other members of Schaghticoke Nation to come to camp to lead a ceremony. They led one campfire on Boys Side and one on Girls, teaching us their traditional songs, about the plants they hold sacred, and what the Schaghticoke Nation is up to today. We learned what the word Schaghticoke actually means— “mingling waters”— a metaphor that works beautifully at a camp centered around a lake, where we welcome people from all over the world, and invite them to share in our community. We learned that cedar and sassafras trees— found all over camp’s property— possess important healing and ceremonial properties. On Girls Side, camp’s resident bald eagle even stopped by, and perched upon a low branch directly over the campfire site, as if he were participating in the night’s events. It was one of those magical camp evenings.
At camp, sometimes the unplanned, unexpected moments are the ones that eventually become the longest-standing traditions. Who knew a chance encounter at a convention center in Atlantic City, would help Scatico connect with its roots.
Looking up as the eagle flies by!
GIRLS SIDE
Over on girls side it has been a very busy week. From birthday ball to a fantastic media show, to tournaments and hikes, camp has hit its true jam-packed stride.
First up… birthday ball! To ensure every camper experiences the excitement of celebrating a birthday at camp, girls side hosts a birthday ball every year. A tradition started in the 1980s, for the special evening girls are divided into their birthday seasons and decide on a theme related to their season name. This year campers opted for some TV-centric themes: Stranger Springs (like Stranger Things), What time is it? Summertime (a Highschool Musical reference), Fall House (like Full House), and Winter Mifflin (like Dunder Mifflin from The Office). Campers and counselors spent the afternoon decorating murals to hang in the dining hall, and then before dinner got into costume for the dinner celebration! Naturally it all ends with birthday cake— with 99 candles, one for each Scatico summer.
This summer also brought us our inaugural Girl Side Film Festival! CIT DL Kate Rosenfeld, a longtime Scaticonian, introduced a media program to girls side this year, and for her first project the Debs and Subs created their very own original film shorts. Over the last two weeks, they have been hard at work, taking on every role involved in the films’ production including director, cinematographer, costumes, prop technicians, screenplay, editing, and acting. With popcorn in hand, the whole girls camp gathered in the social hall and watched the films together. Needless to say it was a successful opening night!
Monday we also hosted the Girls NAT Basketball tournament! With a record seven camps Participating this summer— Surprise Lake, Watitoh, Pontiac, Lenox, Wah-Nee, Eagle Hill, and Scatico— the competition was fierce. Our team played incredibly, winning both their first and second games, before losing to Pontiac in a close semifinals game. The bleachers (as always) were full of campers from both boys and girls side who kept the cheers going all day long.
BOYS SIDE
This week the boys kicked off their much-anticipated College Bowl competition. College Bowl is an event where campers are divided into four colleges: Michigan (dark blue), USC (yellow), UCLA (light blue) and Ohio State (red). Over the course of an evening and an entire day, campers compete in a series of creative activities including full- camp capture the flag on the golf course, full-camp dodgeball on back campus, mass softball on the ballfields, a slapball home run derby, and an apache relay. Two new games introduced this year included “the greasy watermelon” (yes, as strange yet fun as it sounds… involving boys in the crib of the lake attempting to get a floating watermelon to their side), and a Bucket Brigade. A longtime girls side Color War activity, the bucket brigade has boys in a line along the lake dock stretching from the deep end to the beach, passing buckets filled with water in an attempt to fill a giant garbage can with a ping pong ball in it. The first team to overflow their garbage can so that the ping pong ball floats out and onto the dock, wins. The day is then finished with a traditional boys side campfire.
Boys side also participated in the fan-favorite Gong Show on Wednesday evening! Always filled with hilarious and unique acts, this year the Sub Seniors took home the gold. Highlights included Diego Groom doing a strong man act that involved lifting counselors, and a ribbon dance performance (which the Sub Seniors learned in girls gymnastics) while Nick Mozga and Isaac Greenblatt discussed philosophical issues.
This week also marked the official annual decoration of the boys HC porch. The porch has always had a pair of seats from the original Yankees stadium set up in one corner— a popular hangout spot during down time— with Yankee paraphernalia hung around it to match, but as soon as Cory Schwartz took up residence in the HC he made sure we evened out the fandom. Now an accompanying set of Mets seats are positioned on the opposite end of the porch, with accompanying Mets decor. The Subway Series setup has taken on a life of its own, with campers and counselors bringing their own photos, posters, and swag to add to the mix.
MYSTERY RIDES + OVERNIGHTS
This past week also marked the start of mystery rides and camp overnights! On Mystery Rides divisions head out of camp to a destination that is a surprise until they arrive. Some highlights from this week included the Upper Seniors trip to Art Omi, a giant outdoor sculpture garden, and blueberry picking at a local farm with The Centers. The Sophomore boys and Junior girls kicked off the summer’s overnights with evenings filled with s’mores and stories around the fire.
Juniors on their overnight
Next week stay tuned for some major camp events, including Scatico Legends (this year’s theme centers around overcoming obstacles), the brand-new Scatapalooza, Carnival, Minicamp, the Art Show and much more!
Sittin’ on the dock of the bay