MMA Summer Camp Yearbook 2015

missouri military academy summer camp yearbook 2015

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“Thanks a lot to all [staff] members of MMA. My son Eduardo had a great experience!”

Eduardo Riddle

“My son (age 10) said, ‘We had a lot of fun,’ and then fell asleep in the car on the way home! Thanks for giving him such a great experience!” Mary Matthews

“Lucas has told stories all the way home. Success!”

Lori Alyea

“I am so impressed with all that my son learned in just 12 days at Leadership Camp!

What an excellent experience for a young man.” Kelly Flanders

“Samuel had so much fun. He would like to return next summer. MMA is a very viable possibility for Samuel attending beginning in the 6th grade. Thank you for all you have done for Samuel!” Annette E. Smith, mother of Samuel, pictured at left.

“Wow, just wow!

I am thrilled beyond measure to hear the excitement in Noah’s stories!”

Ashley Bell-Hacker

“He really had a great time! … It was a good experience for him and I already see the results. … He was excited about the time he had at Summer Camp. It was truly rewarding! I was very pleased how these two weeks transformed my son [for] the better.” Anara Frank, mother of Norman Daniel Frank, pictured at left July 10.

SWARM SIMULATOR Campers enrolled in MAJ Edsel Baker’s math class and MAJ Keith Morgan’s business classes discussed a free online program called Swarm Simulator on July 1.

Robert Abbott and Christian Ng took the floor while Brents Feron ran the PowerPoint projector. The group extra credit report required the trio to work together to draft an explanation of the program. Cadets were tasked with researching the program, documenting their findings, presenting their findings and debating their strategy with classmates.

Teaches key math, science & reading skills.

Provides middle schoolers with small classes and interactive lessons.

Ng and Abbott began by explaining the difference between a video game and a simulator.

The program, they explained, consists of watching and clicking — unlike a video game, simulators are endless.

Another difference between the two, Ng explained, is player interaction. The simulator requires little input from the player and offers no visuals, only words.

According to Abbott, the swarm-raising process begins with larva, which are “the little babies where all your bugs come from. It’s basically an egg. You have to have at least one larva to make a bug.”

camp core skills

begins with larva, which are “the little babies where all your bugs come from.

It’s basically an egg.

You have to have at least one larva to make a bug.�

camp credit

A for-credit academic camp that allows students grades 9-12 to enhance knowledge. For the student who is struggling in a particular area or hopes to master concepts.

THE GORDIAN KNOT English instructor Joy Noorbakhsh mixed up the morning break on July 2, asking cadets to form small groups, circle up and link hands with one another.

“You’re in a big knot now, and when we say go your job is to undo your knot without letting go of anyone’s hands,” Noorbaksh said. “And you can’t talk!”

Cadets found the challenge harder than expected. Forbidden from linking hands with those to their immediate left or right, they were forced to step over and under each other’s bodies and wordlessly work together to untangle the knot.

“You have to grab across the circle,” Noorbaskh explained. “Otherwise there’s no challenge.”

According to Academic Dean Dr. Frank Giuseffi, the challenge was to “listen” and “try to work things out” using teamwork.

“You might think it’s kind of a silly little game,” Giuseffi said. “Problem solving, talking to people, working together. It’s actually a reflection of what you have to do every single day in life.”

FOUR Jonathan Rodeghero links hands with his fellow campers during the Gordian Knot contest.

FIVE Matthew Seibert, Daniel Long, Christian Ng, Jonathan Rodeghero, Jordan Gatlin, Nicholas Snyder, Cody Parker, Mark Orlov and other campers untangle their knotted arms.

Photos by Erin Chambers.

Brents Feron, Clarence Thomas, Jordan Gatlin [ONE] and Christian Ashton [THREE] receive a classical French fencing lesson in the Centennial Gymtorium mezzanine from [TWO] Dr. Frank Giuseffi.

“Where should your foil be?” Giuseffi asked cadets. “You want to keep your foil at your opponent’s neck.”

Terms discussed in the July 7 lesson included first position, en garde, advance, retreat, extend, lunge, recover, seis, septime and octave.

“Four and six, carte and seis, are for high line,” Giuseffi demonstrated.

“Seven and eight, septime and octave, are low line.”

BRAGGING RIGHTS THE ROCKET PROJECT, A MESSAGE FROM CPT MARCOS BENAVIDES “I use the rocket lab for a hands-on activity.

I often tell my students that chemistry is really a math class, so I have to make labs

and activities like these to make it a little more fun than just solving math problems.

The point of the project is to determine the moles of air students are using in their rocket for each launch. The mole, a unit used

in science for counting really small particles, can be determined by using the Ideal Gas Law equation PV=nRT. The idea is to make the rocket light ut heavy enough to fly straight like an arrow. They

chemistry campers compete to determine whose science reigns supreme have to figure out how much water to add, since that is what provides thrust. The rest of the bottle holds air that is pressurized.

Most students like the activity. It turns into a competition. Whose rocket is the best?�

All photos shot July 10 by Erin Chambers.

ONE Cadets pose for a photo with their rockets.

TWO Robert Van Huss and Alexander Seibert crane their necks to watch as Van Huss’ rocket blasts off. Normal bottles “will only take 10 psi but because we filled them

with water and some soap they’ll have more,” Seibert said.

“Soapy water will have more of a foam. … Wings are really an important part of this because you need at least three.”

THREE Cameron Wade Van Derson’s rocket soars high above Colonels Field. “I built the wings so the wind pushes it

on the side and it makes it spiral,” the seventh grader said.

“I built it diagonal and I made it big.”

FOUR Jakob Union’s rocket blasts off.

FIVE A chemistry cadet prepares to launch his rocket.

Academic Awards Character in the Classroom Award: Tyler Aipperspach Excellence in Academics Award: Jonathan Rodeghero

WHO AM I?

BY CHRISTOPHER GREENE I like to think of myself as someone who likes to be different from everyone else.

A heavy thinker is what I am. A reflective individual who thoroughly thinks about situations. I am a topic. I am a legend. I am a conversation.

The young man was born out of this country to a Haitian mother. Christiano Jean-Claude moved to the United States of America and turned into Christopher Greene. Young Chris moved to the state of New Jersey but soon made a bold transition to Atlanta, where he was raised. He was naïve at first,

thinking that the world was a great place and everyone was safe. Years later, he figured out the truth about the world and his constant smile and laughter was replaced with frowns. Hew as older now. Things became more clear. He couldn’t express himself through words any more, only writing and style. No one understood why Chris was like this.

Chris lived a truly blessed life, though people thought he hated it. They called him ungrateful. That isn’t true. He loved life but he recognized the flaws in it, things that other people seem to ignore. In his Atlanta home’s backyard he had a bamboo patch.

Every day he went down and trimmed the

bamboo and kept it healthy and used it to escape stress. If not the bamboo, there was the rose, his family crest. Both of which gave him a gateway from reality.

Was he a people person? Many would think not. People don’t understand Chris.

He enjoys being around people at times but ultimately prefers being alone. He gives too much trust and shows too much comfort around people. He is a protected soul around those he cares about, like his mother or his dog Ringo. His heart is full of romance and love. Music helps calm and relax the young man. Television and video games help divert him from his problems. His family’s personality helps shape him in his own way.

WHO AM I? BY MICHAEL HILT When you are truly alone, you can’t see, hear or feel anything but the ground beneath your feet. When you are in this state and none of your five senses are functioning, then you change. When I am close to being completely alone I can feel the change. I don’t know anyone else who has been truly alone. I can’t even really say what I’m like while alone because when my mind changes I feel like that is normal. I personally have never been truly alone, so I can’t say who I am. Even science doesn’t know what changes when a person is truly alone. I can’t say who I am until I can say who I want to be and whether or not I am that person.

AT LEFT Lucas Moore poses with his copy of the Spanish novel “Agentes secretos y el mural de Picasso” in LT Andrea Vollrath’s class July 13.

BELOW John Alexander shows off his Algebra notebook in MAJ Ananta Khanal’s classroom July 16.

Photos by Erin Chambers.

MY CHILDHOOD, BY HENRY FELIX I am from soil, from dirt and grass I am from the south central side The food, it tastes so good I am from the hills The plants, they smell like nature I am from the Mexican and American side From Rosita, Nico and Jacky I’m from the most active and funniest From small and big I’m from family, friends I’m from Los Angeles pizza and In-N-Out From the mother who loves me and cares Hawaii I am from my family Love

WHO AM I?

BY HAMILTON JOHNSTON “Most people die when they are 30 and are buried when they are 70.” – Benjamin Franklin I intend to keep on living as I always have. Freely. I don’t intend to end up like that. He meant that people murder themselves and their dreams before they are dead.

A great example of my childlike innocence is my love of kiting. Starting out as a kid, I progressed to an extreme sport. My history with kites is long. Seven years. I started with single lines and progressed to traction kiting. The thrill of suspending something in midair always seemed to speak to me in one way or another, expressing freedom.

My experiences have brought me far in the world of kites and teach me valuable lessons.

The story begins when a storm was passing through the area.

The wind was a solid 30 and I felt like pushing it. I went out to set up at the local park with my kite on my back. I took the kite out and laid the bar next to the back. Putting the lines out is the hardest part. “Red is right, blue is left,” I whispered to myself as the lines came off one by one. I then attached the safety and walked backwards to get the slack out. The wind picked up as I pulled and in an instant the kite was inflated and pulled me like a rag doll across the ground. I did not let go for about 40 feet, just kept getting dragged across the grass at high speed. When I finally released the bar, the safety pulled on my wrist and I came to a stop. The kite was waving in the air like a loose trash bag.

The sound was beating until it came to the ground. I got up and inspected myself. I was trembling and thankfully I had pads on to keep the damage minimal. I packed up the kite and went home, not wanting to do that ever again. After washing up I finally calmed down and thought, I am so lucky I was not more hurt than I was. I learned about respect for Mother Nature and continue to do crazy things cautiously.

My name is Hamilton Fitzgerald Johnston. I come from dark coves lighted by fragments of my imagination. One can only

see the light and hope to reach it. My purpose, my story, my world is limited, endless. I do not know what I am, nor do I intend to find out.

The lessons I learn from my day to day life helps me become a better person much faster than others. I am soft and sensitive but hardy and tough. I never thought I was different – only a little weird.

In the following years I will measure success by how interesting my life is, not how mature I am. I wish for wisdom, not the ability to downsize other people.

Anyone else would wish for fame, fortune, money, power.

But the reality of the matter is that most people achieve none of that. People set elusive standards for themselves with no real motivation behind it.

Sometimes they do not even know what they are fighting for. People take from other people. That’s a fact in life and anything you want can be taken. They also spout words they never mean and hurt others around them for the pleasure of it. They are lonely, sad and depressed. They do nothing about it besides dragging others down.

I am against what most people would consider normal. I reserve myself, bottling up all my anger and releasing it when I do things I like. That is why I am glad I have these outlets to relieve my pressure and bring positivity into my life. We are all special, but are we all unique?

That is the question I will toil about for years to come. I will never change.

Robert Downing Abbott, 7th grade Mexico, Missouri Tyler M. Aipperspach, 10th grade Freeman, Missouri John Clark Alexander, 11th grade St. Louis, Missouri Christian Avery Ashton, 10th grade Zionsville, Indiana William Alexander Cater, 12th grade Boulder, Colorado Jeremy Elkins, 10th grade Chandler, Arizona Christian Mason Ell, 12th grade Columbia, Missouri Henry Felix, 10th grade Hacienda Heights, California Brents Feron, 9th grade Tulsa, Oklahoma Jackson Taylor Ford, 10th grade Lonetree, Colorado Jordan Ross Gatlin, 11th grade Fort Worth, Texas Christopher T. Greene, 10th grade Cape Girardeau, Missouri Michael Joseph Hilt, 11th grade Arcadia, Missouri Joshua Alexander John, 11th grade Sierra Vista, Arizona Hamilton F. Johnston, 12th grade Lakeville, Minnesota Oybek Kirkland, 11th grade Paris, France

Aeron James Lee, 12th grade Wichita, Kansas Daniel Thomas Long, 9th grade St. Louis, Missouri Declan Miller, 9th grade St. Louis, Missouri Michael Fredrick Miller, 7th grade New Berlin, Illinois Lucas Owen Moore, 10th grade Sugar Creek, Texas Christian Ng, 9th grade Key Biscayne, Florida Mark Jacob Orlov, 11th grade Santa Monica, California Cody Dillan Parker, 11th grade Emerson, Iowa

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Photsavat Pongsuea, 11th grade Mexico, Missouri Jacob Lawrence Reinke, 10th grade Geneva, Iowa Jonathan Andrew Rodeghero 9th grade O’Fallon, Missouri

Alexander Joseph Seibert 10th grade Mexico, Missouri Matthew David Seibert, 9th grade Mexico, Missouri Nicholas Snyder, 7th grade Richmond Heights, Missouri

William Wilson Snyder, 10th grade Southlake, Texas Dylan Stanley, 8th grade Columbia, Illinois Clarence Eugene Thomas 11th grade Lecompton, Kansas

Jakob Jonah Union, 8th grade Austin, Texas Ari Antwain Van Derson 9th grade Fairway, Kansas Cameron Wade Van Derson 7th grade Fairway, Kansas

Kyle A. Van Eekeren, 12th grade Chesterton, Indiana Robert J. Van Huss, 12th grade DeSoto, Missouri Lorenzo L. White, 10th grade Bristol, Pennsylvania

ONE Lucas Moore and [THREE] Jacob Reinke goof off during a fishing session at Teardrop Lake on July 2. TWO Ari Van Derson shows off a turtle students caught at Teardrop Lake on June 27. FIVE Kyle Van Eekeren reels in a fish July 2.

FOUR Clarence Thomas enjoys a horseback riding lesson at the MMA stable July 15.

AT RIGHT Leadership Camp cadet John Burke. Photos by Erin Chambers.

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Camp Core Skills Robert Downing Abbott Brents Feron Daniel Thomas Long Declan Miller Michael Fredrick Miller Christian Ng Jonathan A. Rodeghero Nicholas Snyder Dylan Stanley Ari Antwain Van Derson Cameron W. Van Derson Jakob Jonah Union MAJ Keith Morgan, Business, room 208 MAJ Edsel R. Baker, Math, room 209

Missouri Military Academy’s Camp Core Skills and Camp Credit class lists

MMA SUMMER SCHEDULE 0800 to 0930 Block One 0930 to 1100 Block Two 1100 to 1115 Morning Break 1115 to 1215 Block Three 1215 to 1300 Lunch Mess 1300 to 1500 Block Four 1500 to 1530 Extra Help 1530 to 1600 Free Time

Chemistry (Photo Three) Photsavat Pongsuea Alexander Joseph Seibert Robert Jaycee Van Huss Cody Dillan Parker Jordan Ross Gatlin CPT Marcos Benavides, room 108 Spanish I & II Lucas Owen Moore Matthew David Seibert Kyle A. Van Eekeren Mark Jacob Orlov LT Andrea Vollrath, room 313 Geometry (Photo Two) Joshua Alexander John Oybek Kirkland Christian Avery Ashton LT Sean Peters, room 310

English I & II Michael Joseph Hilt Christopher Thomas Greene Hamilton Fitzgerald Johnston Henry Felix Joy Noorbakhsh, room 318 Algebra I & II (Photo One) Aeron James Lee Tyler M. Aipperspach Christian Mason Ell William Alexander Carter John Clark Alexander Jeremy Elkins Clarence Eugene Thomas Jacob Lawrence Reinke William Wilson Snyder Lorenzo Louis White MAJ Ananta Khanal, room 216 LT Stephen Maziarz, room 215

MAJ Keith Morgan’s Camp Core Skills I want to encourage you to be your ‘best you.’ class melds several subject areas and helps We make choices. I encourage you to make students develop and enhance their reading, good choices. For example, you may want to writing, math and study skills. impress others with how awesome you are.

Do that by being, fair, honest and respectful During each of the four weeks of summer with the new people you meet. school, Morgan focused on different aspects of several core subjects: Research, Studying, For some of you, this month will change the Critical & Computational Thinking, Language, direction of your life. You can be a ‘stand-out’ Pre-Algebra and guy by being ‘stand-up’ Planning. guy, too.”

Topis of discussion SETTING GOALS Critical Thinking Unit in the language MAJ Morgan began the Week One: Clarity unit included five first day of class with the Week Two: Variety paragraph essays and planning unit on June 22.

Week Three: Conditions thesis statements.

Students were tasked with Week Four: Validity The studying writing a one-sentence unit discussed Pre-Algebra Unit goal for their future.

Cornell note-taking Week One: Operations strategies, tests and “Include your whole Week Two: Fractions time management. self. There are different Week Three: Ratios parts to you. There is a Week Four: Formulas Additional topics spiritual side, there is a of discussion Planning Unit relationship side,” Morgan throughout the course Week One: Goals said. “Acquaintances and included: inductive Week Two: Priorities community and wealth versus deductive Week Three: Scheduling and athletics and health reasoning, Covey’s Week Four: To-Do Lists and all sorts of things. … four quadrants, We wanna take all these Language Unit Boolean searching, things and put them into Week One: Sentences Bloom’s Taxonomy of one statement.”

Week Two: Parts of Speech Educational Objectives Week Three: Paragraphs for Knowledge-Based The three main Week Four: Essays Goals, exposition, paramaters: goals must persuasion, argument be specific, realistic and and logical fallacies. measurable. How do you determine whether you Each cadet also created and coded a website have met your goal, Morgan explained, if you with HTML, including links to other websites, aren’t able to measure your success? creating clickable buttons and manipulating type size, weight and color.

“If it’s a weight goal I get on the scale. If it’s a time goal I can measure it with the stopwatch.

MAJ Morgan’s three sentence rules: … If it’s a money goal I can look at my bank A sentence has a verb. A sentence always and I can measure it in dollars,” begins with a capital letter. A sentence always account Morgan said.

“If it’s an academic goal, I can ends with a punctuation mark. measure it with my GPA … or my SAT scores A MESSAGE TO STUDENTS or my ACT scores.”

FROM MAJ MORGAN AT RIGHT MAJ Morgan and LT Andrea “This is a one month residential camp. That Vollrath’s classes visit a museum during a means we all live here together. We will all get field trip to St. Louis on July 8. Photo courtesy to know one another during this month. of MAJ Morgan.

What is your goal?

The following life goals were composed June 22 in MAJ Morgan’s class.

“In my life, I want to go through school and I want to be in the military for a minimum of 2 years, then come home, get married and spend my life being a music producer and/or song writer.” Declan Miller “I want to help everyone in the world when they need it or want it whenever I can.”

Jonathan Rodeghero “Get better at being third in life and getting closer to God. God first, others second, me third.” Daniel Thomas Long, pictured at noon mess June 22.

THE PARTS OF SPEECH From the notebook of Cameron Van Derson, pictured at left on June 22.

Adjective: Modifies a noun or pronoun and answers these questions: Which? How many? What kind of?

Adverb: Modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb and answers these questions: When? Where? How? How much? Why? Pronoun: Used in place of one or more nouns. (she, yourself) Preposition: Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other object in a sentence.

Interjection: Expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence.

Conjunction: Joins words or groups of words. (phrases or clauses)

MAJ Morgan’s Camp Core Skills Class Values Honesty: When asked a question, please answer it directly.

Fairness: Treat one another fairly.

Effort: We expect your best all the time.

Dignity: Always respect the dignity of others.

Work: Work hard. Embrace work. Make friends with it.

Preparation: We expect you to be prepared when you arrive.

Alertness: Stay attentive to instructor. Avoid distractions.

Fun: Choose to laugh regularly!

Helps boys ages 8-11 build a sense of selfconfidence and instills a foundation of leadership through adventure.

CONFIDENCE CAMP

Danari Adriano, 10 Weston, Florida Jesse Bilyeu, 10 Holts Summit, Missouri Joshua Bosworth, 11 Hutchinson, Kansas Maxwell Brewer, 9 Florissant, Missouri

James Bryant, 8 Little Rock, Arkansas Ethan Daniels, 10 Rolla, Missouri Bryan DiSylvester, 11 Springfield, Missouri Aiden Githens, 12 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Lincoln Haynes-Kechik, 11 West Plains, Missouri Blake Horner-Ogle, 11 Lee’s Summit, Missouri Collin Jostes, 11 Columbia, Missouri Charles Joyce, 9 Maumelle, Arkansas

ONE Confidence Camper Dante Tomlinson scales the MMA rock wall July 10. Photo by Connor Pearson.

John Lopez, 11 St. Charles, Missouri Max Martin, 9 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Kai Matsunami, 11 Newport Beach, California Simon Matthews, 10 St. Louis, Missouri

Hayden McDonald, 9 St. James, Missouri Fernando Morfin, 10 Boca Del Rio, Veracruz Mexico

Lance Newland, 11 Orangevale, California Kai Passmore, 9 Washington, Missouri

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TWO Lance Newland and Dante Tomlinson pose with a camp counselor July 14. THREE Collin Jostes, Lincoln Haynes-Kechik and Justin Reznic pose with a fish they caught in Teardrop Lake. FOUR Camper Kai Matsunami poses with the Concidence Camp flag.

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Right: JOSHUA BOSWORTH Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

“Get out there. Get to know people.

Find out things about them. The world is becoming a smaller place, guys. Each year more people communicate. It’s getting smaller and smaller. … The more intelligent you are, the more adapted you are.”

Advice from Commandant of Cadets LTC Gregory Seibert on first day of camp, July 6

step—by—step Tag hands with the previous runner to begin.

Hop across several platforms. [Two: Bryan DiSylvester.]

Run across the gym.

Bend down to touch the corner of the court.

Dribble a rugby ball around several cones.

[At right: Kai Passmore.]

Drop the ball in a bucket.

[Three: Aiden Githens.]

Run to a marker in the center of the court. Drop to your hands and knees.

Army crawl to the center of the gym with a rifle.

[Four: Justin Reznic.]

Sit up and toss a tennis ball into a soccer net — must score a goal to move on to next step. [One: Daniel Rice.]

Army crawl back to the blue marker and tag it.

Leave the rifle. Run to the edge of the court and touch the corner.

Hop back across the platforms and tag hands with the next person in line to complete your turn.

FAR RIGHT Maxwell Brewer takes his turn in the relay race July 8.

All photos by Erin Chambers.

Michael Polaschek, 9 Davenport, Iowa Michael Rees, 12 Fairview, Texas Justin Reznic, 10 Brooklyn, New York Daniel Rice, 9 Independence, Missouri Liam Rose, 11 Columbia, Missouri Miller Rountree, 11 Billings, Missouri Richard Schuler, 10 Kirkwood, Missouri Logan Schuster, 10 East Hampton, New York Samuel Smith, 10 Pensacola, Florida David Stilwell, 10 New York, New York Brian Sullivan, 11 Dorchester, Massachusetts Dante Tomlinson, 10 Nolensville, Tennessee Kai Trumpore, 9 Fayetteville, Arkansas Dalton Wood, 11 Wentzville, Missouri Ryan Young, 12 Kansas City, Missouri Austin Zimmerman, 11 Lee’s Summit, Missouri

2015 MMA SUMMER CONFIDENCE CAMP

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Right: SIMON MATTHEWS Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

July 7: PHYSICAL TRAINING TEST July 9: TAKE AIM IN THE RIFLE RANGE July 10: SCALE THE ROCK WALL

July 10: CAMP IN THE WILDERNESS July 13: PUGIL STICK DUELS July 16: SWIM IN MERAMEC LAKE

“Treat every rifle as if it were loaded. Even though we know that it is almost impossible for this rifle to be loaded, it doesn’t matter. ... Always point the rifle in a safe direction.

Down here in this rifle range, there is only one safe direction – that’s downrange. ...

When you get out on the firing line and you start handling your rifle, your rifle is always pointed in that direction.” Rifle range safety advice from JROTC instructor 1SG Randal Jacobson

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Right: GRANT VENABLE Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

Campers head into the woods to try their hands at PAINTBALL and the OBSTACLE COURSE

INSET Campers learn to identify several types of nuts and wild animal prints, including dog, deer [left] and [right] raccoon. Photos by CPT Greg Maximovitch, Erin Chambers & MAJ Brian Galarza.

DANARI ADRIANO Rappelling Award JESSE BILYEU Sit-Up Award JOSHUA BOSWORTH Discipline Award MAXWELL BREWER First Place Swimming Award HARRY BRYANT Rock Wall Award ETHAN DANIELS Spirit Award AIDEN GITHENS Swimming Award, Running Award BLAKE HORNER-OGLE Most Motivated Award, Push-Ups Award MAX MARTIN Pugil Sticks Award, Spirit Award KAI MATSUNAMI Running Award LANCE NEWLAND Marksmanship Award KAI PASSMORE Marksmanship Award JUSTIN REZNIC Rock Wall Award LIAM ROSE Most Motivated Award DANTE TOMLINSON Running Award, Sit-Up Award KAI TRUMPORE Push-Up Award RYAN YOUNG Marksmanship Award

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Right: ALIOUNE BEYE Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

Two adventure-filled weeks of self-discovery and challenge while bonding with young men from around the world.

LEADERSHIP CAMP

CPT Murrell Andrew Adams SGM Charles Anderson Simon Alexis Barrera ’15 SFC John Biddle LT Kevin Bissmeyer

Vincent Burke ’15 CPT Carl P. Estenik III MAJ Brian Galarza CSGT Mike Harding 1SG Randal Jacobson

staff ACADEMY SUMMER CAMP

Missouri Military Academy Confidence Camp staff members included the following Lincoln University and Truman State University JROTC cadets: LaTiffany Baker, Marteshia Cooper, Anthony Draper, Denzel Gay, Quran Harris, Christopher Holly, Victoria Jackson, Frank Mott and Ashton Piper.

CPT Steven Manning Dustin McGuire ’15 Joshua Pearson ’14 MAJ Paul Petit ’85 LTC Gregory Seibert

CPT Scott Robley Derek Ryan ’15

ONE Staff members pose at Meramec Adventure Learning Ranch during a field trip July 16.

TWO LTC Gregory Seibert poses with camper Danari Adriano and his family July 6. Photos ONE, TWO and FIVE courtesy of MAJ Brian Galarza.

THREE Lincoln University Army ROTC cadets serve as camp counselors.

FOUR LT Kevin Bissmeyer scales the rock wall alongside his campers July 14. Photo by CPT Gregory Maximovitch.

FIVE Michael Polaschek poses for a photo with his camp counselor in the Centennial Gymtorium during a Pugil Stick match.

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Right: AARON CRONK Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

Alioune Beye, 12 Bethesda, Maryland Michael Bowers, 12 Pittsfield, Illinois Knox Boyd, 12 Corinth, Texas Wyatt Brewer, 14 Fayetteville, Arkansas Brandyn Brooks, 13 Grapevine, Texas Levin Brown, 12 Hazelwood, Missouri Thomas Calvin Brown, 13 Columbia, Missouri Devin Buckles, 15 Macomb, Michigan

2015 MMA SUMMER LEADERSHIP CAMP

ALIOUNE BEYE Swimming Award, third place NOAH HACKER Excellence Award

PHILIPPE LORIGAN Physical Fitness Award, 12-13 years BENJAMIN MABRY Marksmanship Award

DANIEL MCGRORY Swimming Award second place GABRIEL PEREZ Marksmanship Award

DREW POTTHAST Physical Fitness Award, 14-15 years

EVAN WILLIMON Marksmanship Award

BERNARD WONG Swimming Award, first place Physical Fitness Award, 16-17 years

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Right: JOHN TANGEL Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

2015 MMA SUMMER LEADERSHIP CAMP

John Burke, 13 Smithton, Illinois Cole Burket, 14 Arvada, Colorado Raul Cantu Noriega, 14 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Isaac Carter, 14 Higbee, Missouri Joerin Casey, 14 Paducah, Kentucky Alexander Chaikin, 12 Groveland, Illinois Morgan Conway, 14 San Anselmo, California Dylan Creath, 15 Chesterfield, Missouri Aaron Cronk, 15 Des Moines, Iowa Zac Dorman, 12 Dublin, Ireland Garry Dunn III, 14 Nevada, Missouri Logan Ehrenreich, 14 St. Louis, Missouri Luke Elliott, 13 Little Elm, Texas Mark Endacott, 17 Lincoln, Nebraska Rafael Fernandez Martinez, 13 San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato, Mexico Jacob Flanders, 13 St. Joseph, Missouri Norman Daniel Frank, 12 Mission, Texas Isaac Gastelum, 13 Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico Lucas Glaser, 13 Sullivan, Missouri Emiliano Gorordo, 16 McAllen, Texas Franklin Greenman

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Right: KNOX BOYD Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

Noah Hacker, 15 Spring Hill, Tennessee Elian Harants, 13 Memphis, Tennessee Parker Hawkins, 14 Crestwood, Kentucky Carson Heskett, 15 St. Louis, Missouri Joseph Heydinger, 17 Willard, Ohio Nicholas Hiatt, 15 Terre Haute, Indiana Hunter Hoang, 13 Maryland Heights, Missouri William Hoffman, 15 Warrenton, Missouri Joseph Hogan, 13 Old Monroe, Missouri Phoenix Jahn, 13 Makanda, Illinois Denver Jenkins, 12 Anacoco, Louisiana Daveraj Khuti, 16 Huntsville, Alabama Ashton Knipfer, 13 Ottumwa, Iowa Devin Kotas, 16 Lincoln, Nebraska Chandler Kreutziger, 14 Cheney, Kansas Zach Kuster, 14 Broomfield, Colorado Adam Lester, 13 Boonville, Missouri William Leucking, 15 Belleville, Illinois Philippe Lorigan, 15 Stillorgan, CO Dublin, Ireland Benjamin Mabry, 16 Denver, Colorado

Bailey Martin, 17 Allen, Texas Daniel McGrory, 13 Brentwood, Tennessee Sean McLoudrey, 15 Fort Collins, Colorado

2015 MMA SUMMER LEADERSHIP CAMP

Ned Merrion, 16 Farmington, New Mexico Justin Morgan, 14 Fresh Meadows, New York Thomas Morgan, 16 Fresh Meadows, New York

Noah Mosqueda, 17 St. Louis, Missouri Jordan Mostrom, 16 Springfield, Missouri Max Murati, 16 Wichita, Kansas

Bryce Ory, 15 Bristow, Indiana Steven Patton, 14 Fairway, Kansas Gabriel Perez, 15 Woodridge, Illinois

Bryce Phillips, 17 Raymore, Missouri Ryan Pinks, 17 St. Charles, Illinois Chase Plybon, 12 Fulton, Missouri

Joseph Polfliet, 14 Troy, Illinois Drew Potthast, 15 Carlyle, Illinois Eduardo Riddle, 13 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Jacob Rodeghero, 13 O’Fallon, Missouri Alberto Rodriguez, 12 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Alan Rodriguez Villarreal, 13 Naucalpan, Mexico State Mexico

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Right: GABRIEL PEREZ Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

Benjamin Rotolo, 14 Carpentersville, Illinois Raymond Saleeby III, 14 St. Louis, Missouri Brandon Schneider, 16 Columbia, Missouri Christian Seagren, 12 Miami, Florida Carlos Alfredo Seijas Correa, 16 Mexico, Distrito Federal Joey Setnicka, 14 Chesterfield, Missouri Alexander Sheldon, 12 APO, AE Danny Sierra, 16 Allentown, Pennsylvania Nehemiah Simmons, 14 Osceola, Missouri Evan Smith, 15 Mico, Texas Andres Tamez, 12 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico John Tangel, 16 Peoria Heights, Illinois Aidan Thomas-Plunkett, 14 Lee’s Summit, Missouri Matthew Tierney, 13 McKinney, Texas Raymundo Trevino, 12 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Grant Venable, 13 Kansas City, Missouri Edward Vodicka, 16 Lake Zurich, Illinois Justin Wheeler, 13 Spencerville, Oklahoma Evan Willimon, 17 Edmond, Oklahoma Andrew Withinton, 12 Ballwin, Missouri

Bernard Wong, 16 Willowbrook, Illinois Carlos Yglesias Vigil, 14 Atizapan De Zaragoza Mexico

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Right: BERNARD WONG Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

Michael Bowers Knox Boyd Wyatt Brewer

Brandyn Brooks Levin Brown Devin Buckles

John Burke Raul Cantu Noriega Isaac Carter

Alexander Chaikin Aaron Cronk Zac Dorfman

Luke Elliott Mark Endacott Rafael Fernandez Martinez

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FIRST Isaac Gastelum Lucas Glaser Emiliano Gorordo

Noah Hacker Parker Hawkins Hunter Hoang

Joseph Hogan Phoenix Jahn Benjamin Mabry

Ned Merrion Justin & Thomas Morgan Bryce Phillips

first platoon highest military skills award: aaron cronk first platoon leadership award: isaac carter Carlos Alfredo Seijas Miles Sipes John Tangel

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Right: JAKOB UNION Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

secondplatoon SECOND PLATOON HIGHEST MILITARY SKILLS AWARD: WILLIAM HOFFMAN

Alioune Beye Joerin Casey Morgan Conway Garry Dunn III Logan Ehrenreich Norman Daniel Frank Franklin Greenman Elian Harants Carson Heskett William Hoffman Denver Jenkins Daveraj Khuti Ashton Knipfer Chandler Kreutziger Zach Kuster William Leucking

Philippe Lorigan Bailey Martin Daniel McGrory Noah Mosqueda Max Murati Gabriel Perez Chase Plybon Joseph Polfliet Alberto Rodriguez Brandon Schneider Christian Seagren Joey Setnicka Alexander Sheldon Evan Smith Evan Willimon Bernard Wong

Daveraj Khuti

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Right: RAYMUNDO TREVINO Photo by: ERIN CHAMBERS

HONOR PLATOON Marine Relay: 15.50 Thomas Brown Cole Burket Dylan Creath Jacob Flanders Joseph Heydinger Nicholas Hiatt Devin Kotas Adam Lester Sean McLoudrey Jordan Mostrom Steven Patton Ryan Pinks Drew Potthast Eduardo Riddle Alan Rodriguez Villarreal Jacob Rodeghero Benjamin Rotolo Raymond Saleeby III Danny Sierra Nehemiah Simmons Andres Tamez Aidan Thomas-Plunkett Matthew Tierney Raymundo Trevino Grant Venable Justin Wheeler Andrew Withinton Carlos Yglesias Vigil