Homecoming is right around the corner and each grade level is busy preparing floats for the annual parade. The competition for the floats is very stiff amongst the four grade levels. This time of the year is usually a lot of people’s favorite due to all the fun activities that are organized by the school spirit pillar. The floats aren’t the only thing that busying students during this time period, hallway decorating is also a highlight of homecoming. Each grade level gets a hallway and decorates it as the same theme they have for the float. The over arching theme for this year’s homecoming is apps. Each grade level president is in charge of the float along with the other officers.

Justin Evoy is a freshman this year and he serves as class president. Talking to him about his first homecoming, he is most excited for the football game he said. Getting used to all the things that go on during this period, he thinks his class will do pretty good during the floats and hall decorating. Justin said, “The juniors will be our biggest rival”. The Freshman theme is Fruit Ninja. Asking Justin how far they have gotten on their float he said that they are just building it. They have all their ideas planned out, now they just need to put it together on the trailer. This should be pretty exciting to see how well they do for their first year in high school and being new to all of the homecoming festivities.

The Sophomores are set to embark on their second homecoming this year and their theme is Plants vs. Zombies. When asked what Rachael Kueker was excited about for homecoming the first thing she said was, “I’m just excited to not be a freshman this year”. Freshmen always gets picked on just because they are Freshmen and they are new to everything. Being used to setting up their float now they have an idea of what is expected. Rachael explained that they are about half way done with their float and she thinks they’re going to do better than they did last year.

Farmville is making an appearance as the juniors look to conquer this theme. Jenna Rutowski is the Junior class president and is excited for homecoming. During this time she said that she is most excited about the parade to see all the floats and also the dance. This class is always good with being artistic and they are basically done with their float already. Jenna said, “I hope we do well, I think everyone is going to do well this year”. The junior’s biggest rivals are the seniors and the sophomores as Jenna said. She likes their theme and is excited to see how everything turns out.

Last but not least are the Seniors that take on the theme of Angry Birds. Senior class president Joe Wallace is in charge of the float and he said that the class is half done at this point. Last year they thought they were going to win and thought the float was very well put together but I guess the judges didn’t agree with them. This year for their last year in the school they want to come out as strong as possible with the best ideas. Joe said, “ We’re going to win this year”and we are going to do really well.” The only thing that the seniors have to worry about is this Junior class Joe said. Every year the Seniors lose to the class under them so this year their goal is to beat them.

Each grade is excited about different things as homecoming approaches. The competition this year should be very competitive and it should be interesting to see who comes out on top. The floats and hallways are decorated in different ways as to which the kids think will have the best opportunity to win. Homecoming week is always exciting and filled with many activities to get students involved. Homecoming week is the week of September 28^th.