Seniors prepare for their final homecoming

This year the theme of FC’s homecoming is ‘Homecoming for Humanity,’ Oct. 6. This year floats are focused on nonprofits and the class to raise the most money for their selected organization wins. Leading up to homecoming The Feather will post updates on the floats from each class. The float themes selected are: freshmen, Miss Winkles, sophomores, Lanna Coffee, juniors, Hume Lake and seniors, Red Cross.

UPDATE Oct. 2: The last gathering took place, Saturday, Sept. 30, and seniors were able to make the finishing touches to their float and will be ready to show it off in the contest on the day of homecoming, Oct.6. With great teamwork they were able to come together and finish it instead of meeting back Sunday to complete it. On Thursday, Oct. 5, and the day of homecoming, Oct. 6, seniors arranged for a representative of the American Red Cross to come and present information.

UPDATE Sept. 26: On Saturday, Sept. 23, seniors met at American Sheet Metal and were able to continue building their float. In this session, although there was some controversy on how some of the small aspects of the float should turn out to be, students were able to move along to start building the main theme of the float. With how much they have accomplished this previous weekend, this coming Saturday, Sept. 30 is the last chance to complete and add the finishing touches to the ending product.

UPDATE Sept. 20: This Saturday, Sept. 23,  students meet again at American Sheet Metal to continue construction on their float. Last Saturday, seniors were able to complete building the walls, adding the paint to the base layers and built the twin tower models. This upcoming Saturday, seniors want to accomplish much more work and plan on talking with American Red Cross to hopefully get a blood drive scheduled for the week of homecoming to raise donations for the ARC.Mariana Fikse | The Feather Online

Only four weeks into the school year, students scramble to begin the preparation for one of the most stressful, yet fun weeks in the entire year. It’s homecoming week, and each grade level begins the race to launch preparation of the annual float building contest. 

In the end all the development and dedication put into the floats is worth all the madness, and students get to admire the finished product of each others floats. Homecoming this year is scheduled for Oct. 6.

Each year a new theme for homecoming is chosen and students are required to build their float according to that particular theme. This year the theme is ‘Homecoming For Humanity.’ Each class picks one non-profit organization to represent with their float. Every year seniors have the luxury of choosing first. They plan on designing a float portraying the American Red Cross.

I hope to see as much participation as possible this year, and just for everyone to get really excited,” Endicott said. “I look forward mostly to bonding with my class and making memories. I hope our float will be the best and bring in lots of donations. — Roman Endicott

Taking part in float building is an annual occurrence at Fresno Christian and it allows students learn various life skills while getting to bond with their classmates.

Enjoying helping out with float building all four years in high school,  ASB president Roman Endicott, ’18, has high hopes of working hard alongside his fellow seniors to make a stellar float to hopefully win the contest this year.

“I hope to see as much participation as possible this year, and just for everyone to get really excited,” Endicott said. “I look forward mostly to bonding with my class and making memories. I hope our float will be the best and bring in lots of donations.”

Helping with various planning activities, Erin Wilson, ’18, expects to acquire enough participation to be able to finish the float and to have enough people to participate on the float the night of homecoming.

“Essentially we planned the main idea of the float and figured out how we wanted it to look,” Wilson said. “We are also making sure that we have enough seniors coming each weekend to build the float in time and are recruiting seniors to be on the float homecoming night.”

In charge of an important roles, Natalya Hill, ’18, plans to keep things organized and ready for the kick off of homecoming day.

“My main role is the head communicator and organizer,” Hill said. “This year we have a lot of interest and involvement so I don’t really have to round the troops up as much as prepare them. I basically schedule meetings and make sure costumes and props are being gathered.”

Scheduled float building days for senior are as follows:

Saturday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Refer back to this article for further updates concerning senior float building. For those who wish to donate to the Red Cross, please click on the Go Fund Me Seniors for Red Cross Homecoming for Humanity.

To learn more more about other homecoming class floats in this series, read 2017 FC homecoming floats: Juniors, 2017 FC homecoming floats: Sophomores and 2017 FC homecoming floats: Freshmen

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