After selling 800 tickets last homecoming, Student Council (StuCo) is preparing to build on that momentum.
“I feel like it [2022 homecoming sales] was a good start and a good foundation to go of,” StuCo adviser Michael Woxland said. “It’s all about building on that, like trying to create even more special decor and special moments for people to experience while they are at the dance.”
Trying to make this event as successful as the last, StuCo plans on expanding the dance floor to have more room.
“Learning from last year, we’re going to make sure that there’s a little bit more room for the dance floor that’s not right in front of the doors to get in and out of the cafeteria, for safety reasons,” Woxland said. “For convenience, we want people to feel like they can still enjoy themselves and have a good time and dance, but not be in the way of people trying to get in and out of the doors.”
One of the major challenges that StuCo faced while working was thinking of ambient decorations for the homecoming theme.
“The challenge that I gave to the dance committee this year was to add more decor, to find more ways to make the theme apparent in the decor,” Woxland said. “I gave them a little bit of extra budget to spend some money on some things to make it a little bit more special for everyone to feel like they’re not in the cafeteria. They’ll be transported somewhere else.”
In addition, culinary students will bake 150 of each pastry for this event, including Oreo cookies, red velvet cookies, crinkle cookie brownies, and pumpkin muffins. There will be more than two pieces per person included in the ticket price.
“I really enjoy sweets and I like pastries,” senior Ellie Lakatos said. “It’s a cute touch to have some pumpkin themed pastries. However, it would be cool if the pastries could go with the theme since the theme is Night in Neverland. If they had some fairy-themed pastries, I would have thought that it would be a nice touch, but I appreciate any food that is provided.”
More photo booths will be available due to their popularity last year.
“We’re going to have the photo booth and that revolving 360 photo booth as well as having actual photo opportunities,” Lafountain said. “There’s going to be certain decorated areas where people can stand in [backdrop]..”
Most students are curious to see how StuCo will visualize the theme.
“I feel like the theme is pretty good for the environment,” sophomore Leena Almeqbeli said. “It’s not really an easy theme to dress up for, but if they set up the decorations, right, and they decorate everything accordingly, then it could be a really pretty homecoming.”
The event ends promptly at 9 PM, at which point administration needs students to exit campus right away.
“The school is paying a lot of people in their spare time to stay extra,” assistant principal Cameron Roehm said. “They also have families they gotta get home to. So if we tell them it’s from this time to this time that we need people to work, but then people are staying after because they’re not getting picked up, then that affects other people’s lives, especially because it’s a Saturday. We don’t want to negatively affect people’s lives.”
