A new snack option could soon be available at Atlantic High School sporting events, as well as other extracurricular activities.

AHS Fuel has begun talks of a cotton candy machine coming to various events. Currently, it is not 100 percent certain if the machine will be ordered. Leader of AHS Fuel Daniel Vargason said the idea of a cotton candy machine began as a joke. “I went to the state fair last year, and (Eric) Miller and I joked about getting a machine. This year, I thought we’d do it.” Vargason and Miller took the idea to their students and they liked it.

They will start with two common flavors: blue vanilla and strawberry. As of right now, a cotton candy machine is the only new snack idea. “At this point we are sticking to cotton candy and we’ll see If we can get that rolling,” Vargason said. If it does well, new options may be considered in the future.

AHS Fuel has offered the Booster Club to be a part of this project, as they could sell cotton candy at their stand. Vargason said the they don’t seem very interested in the idea, as they have other things to do. On Monday night at the Booster Club meeting they will vote on whether or not they will contribute to the machine.

If they vote “no,” AHS Fuel and FFA will split the costs of the machine as well as the profits. If that happens, they will plan to order the machine within the next week, and it would take a couple weeks for the machine to arrive.

The cotton candy machine that is currently being looked at costs $1200 and it can make around 200 bags of cotton candy in one hour. Upfront, FFA and AHS Fuel would each pay for half the cost of the machine and split the profits 50-50. Once the machine is paid off, some of the money could possibly be donated back to the general fund to help offset the costs of sports and other extracurricular activities who aren’t making as much money as they need to.