It’s a Sunday afternoon in late April. The school is dark and quiet, deserted of students — except for the lecture hall. There are around 30 Student Council members, getting ready to discuss plans for the second annual field day.
“Last year when they brought up the idea, I was very nervous that it was going to flop because we had a lot of mixed reviews going into it,” student council advisor Colton Mullins said. “The students seemed to really enjoy it though.”
Juniors Audrey Tercero and Zuri Muldrow were just two of the brains behind the productions of field day. They spent most of the Sunday Student Council meeting coming up with activity suggestions, recruitment ideas, and mapping out where to put everyone’s stations.
“Before the planning meeting, I was definitely a little stressed out, but once we had the layout for it I felt better,” Audrey said.
Aside from planning the layout, there were other challenges the student council faced — figuring out what organizations were willing to do which activities.
“Since it’s a relatively new thing, we’re trying to grow it and get better every year, and there’s a lot of communication when trying to borrow equipment and see if any organizations are willing to set up tables and things like that,” Mr. Mullins said.
Mr. Mullins had to make sure the Art department had students coming to set up, HOSA had water balloons filled, the Life Skills students were still on board to share their games, FCA was stocked up with water bottles, et cetera. So many emails, phone calls, and double (even triple) texting.
However, for this only being the second year the highschool has had a field day, it had a pretty successful turn out.
“Field day is a great way for students to unwind and have fun before the chaos of finals,” Zuri said. “The student council puts a lot of time and effort into trying to make it fun for everyone.”