On May 1st, the middle school had their first glow-in-the-dark themed party. The party started after school on Friday at 6:00, and ended at 8:30 later that night.

“We wanted a MAP test reliever, and also because everyone was complaining that we never have any cool dances. So we tried to plan a cool and fun party,” stated middle school Vice President Jocelyn Woods, 7th grade. Students were able to purchase tickets during lunch for $5 until Tuesday, April 28th and then, after that, the tickets were priced at $7. If you had forgotten to purchase a ticket, you could also pay for one (also $7) at the door.

“My expectations as a student is just that I want this to be good because as a middle school we only got to do boring stuff this year like we couldn’t do anything fun really,” said Woods.

There were 3 black lights hung up on the pillars in the South cafeteria and balloon animals that were made by Eric Theby, the 7th grade science teacher. Also, there was popcorn, chocolate, grapes, and cheese sticks to snack on if you got hungry.

High school students also had their own glow party later the next night on Saturday, May 2nd, from 7:30 to 10:30. The cafeterias were decorated with green and black streamers and balloons of different colors with little lights in them. It was recommended that students wear a glow in the dark shirt or just a regular white shirt because they would possibly get paint on them since there was glow paint (skin safe) for the students to use. They covered up the windows for both parties (black for high school and blue for middle) to give the glow party more effect.

“I feel that it was very successful and everything went well. We had a fair amount of people show up and I was okay with that. I also feel like we had a great theme,” stated 9th grader Neia Jackson.

Both high school and middle school students had glow sticks (bracelets & glasses) given to the students. The middle school and high school had their own Djs for the party. Joseph (Joe) Pierre, 11th grade, was the dj for high school while Joe Fingerhut dj’ed for the middle school.