The phrase “many hands make light work,” despite being over 700 years old, lives strongly as examined by the AHS Student Council. With summer meetings on top of the early morning meetings every Tuesday during the school year, “StuCo” is hard at work preparing homecoming for the upcoming week.
The great task of organizing homecoming and its many facets wouldn’t have been possible without several meetings held during the summer. These meetings welcomed freshmen on board, decided the theme and dress days, split students into committees to maximize efficiency, arranged float sponsors, ordered all necessary supplies, and served as a headstart on the festivities.
Junior Addie Freund acts as the treasurer for the student council and is responsible for the dodgeball and food drive committees while also partaking in the parade committee. As a student council officer, Freund oversees some administrative duties while also working with the Atlantic Food Pantry and the high school secretary staff for parade routes. Freud said she wanted people in general “to be excited for the game assemblies because [with] more participation, you get out of it what you put into it.”
Other committees are dedicated to choosing decorations for the dance, making posters and social media accounts, organizing homecoming coronation, pep rallies, and more. Sophomore Alivia Knuth has partaken in student council since seventh grade but notes how much work it takes to organize homecoming. “A lot goes into homecoming,” she said. “People think it’s easy to plan a dance but it’s not.” Knuth is excited for homecoming as a whole, but especially the dance and decorations. She hopes that the new members of the student council will stay committed and join the student council community for the rest of the year.
Student council uses different methods to engage with all students. The student-run account @atlstuco on Instagram provides dress day information and updates throughout the homecoming festivities. Members of the student council also work directly with different graduating classes to organize float-building days and uplift each other in preparation for the upcoming week.
One major change to the way the student council is run this year is through their advisor. For her first year as the student council advisor, teacher Cayleigh McBee said that working with the students has been “great.” “They’re all super willing to help out and get stuff done for us to have a great homecoming,” she said. McBee sees the student members of the student council as great resources for help and ideas, stating that “they have the student perspective in mind as they work with planning and implementing the different events.”
Overall, the AHS student council members are hard at work delivering a fun and memorable homecoming to all members of the community. They’re proof that when many hands and helpers work together, no task is too great to take on.
