Shippensburg University’s Bridge For Kids hosted a comical and entertaining Miss Ship 2016 Fairytale Pageant Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Ceddia Union Building multipurpose room.
Bridge For Kids is a non-profit organization that works to better children’s education.
The organization does volunteer work such as tutoring children and providing book fairs.
The money raised by the event will go toward sponsoring the annual Kids Night Out at Grace B. Luhrs Elementary School. The event will provide fun games and activities in which the children can participate.
The event kicked off with the contestants coming on stage to perform a fun group dance for an introduction. The four contestants who competed to become “Miss Ship” were President Alyson Poorbaugh, Sara Landis, secretary Ariel Dick and Tori Walls.
Categories in this contest included pajama wear, talent, formalwear and Q&A. The four ladies put on energetic performances, each with their own unique touch, from wearing princess costumes to singing familiar songs to which the audience was able to sing and dance along.
“I have never been to one of these events before but it was a really fun experience,” SU student Ciara Gallagher said.
The intermission included prize raffle drawings, which four SU students won. Afterward, the Dance Troupe performed a hip-hop routine.
The pageant resumed after intermission with the formal wear and Q&A. The attire for this pageant was not what one would expect. The ladies came out wearing the costumes of Disney princesses, including Ariel with a fork accessory and Cinderella with a big blue dress.
After the second entertaining intermission, the audience got to vote on a winner. The emcee put his hand over each lady’s head to determine who would get the loudest applause. For the audience choice, Tori Walls was the winner. The judges were asked to hand in their votes, and Sara Landis was announced and crowned as the 2016 “Miss Ship” pageant winner. Tori Walls was the runner-up.
“It was really cool to see how into the pageant these girls were and how much fun they had with it,” student Kaylie Engle said.
Bridge For Kids hosted an excellent event that provided entertainment throughout the night.
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