“Get ready for the best week of your life,” Sophie Henehan said, a junior and member of one of Broomfield’s finest groups: Student Council.

It all begins today. In preparation for homecoming, which will be this Saturday, October 3rd at Sports Authority Field, StuCo created a week of spirit-filled fun. The tailgate and Llabtoof are on Wednesday, the assembly and football game are on Friday, and there will be a new spirit day going down every single day this week.

Monday: Flamingo Day
Tuesday: Toga Tuesday
Wednesday: Blue Out
Thursday: Mandalay Bay Day
Friday: Class Colors

I have never walked into a room filled with more determination and positivity than Mrs. Long’s StuCo class. The pride this group of students has for our school is evident in the air as if it were some type of magic fairy dust. “If you came in and saw how busy we are everyday…there’s 35 people in here working, trying to get every detail done,” Mrs. Long said, the advising teacher of StuCo and one of our most-beloved math teachers. The steps and details this group of students has to sort through to make this week’s events happen is, to say the least, intricate.

Work does not start when school starts. These students begin planning for homecoming and homecoming week at the end of the previous school year. They continue all throughout the summer. By the time school comes around, the location, the theme, and the schedule of events are already determined.

However, homecoming is not just a single event. It is a chain of over seven events that take place throughout the two weeks prior to the actual dance. There is the Broomfield Day Parade, Llabtoof, the assembly, the tailgate, the halftime show, spirit week, Battle of the Classes, and of course the main event, the dance.

Each event leading up to homecoming is assigned to a committee. That committee is responsible for piecing together every detail of the event and making sure all the resources needed to carry it out smoothly are set in place. During the entire homecoming event, each individual puts in between 10 and 20 hours of work total. The dance alone takes over five hours to set up. Yes, this group of 35 students arrives five hours early to the homecoming venue each year to prepare. They then stay over an hour afterwards to clean up. Without the hours and hours of planning and execution these students put themselves through, homecoming would not be possible.  

Being able to plan and pull off the events that mean the most to us, swiftly and smoothly, is not the only thing StuCo strives to accomplish. Student Council works to be involved in not only our school community but the entire Broomfield community.

“I think the best part about this class is everybody starts to think outside of themselves. We are always trying to give back to the school and to the community,” Mrs. Long said.

When they are not working on planning for homecoming, which is only one of many events they carry out, by the way, they are helping with community service or supporting our fellow Eagle sports and clubs.

You can find them volunteering at retirement homes, elementary schools, and they even carry out the food drive at our school every year for FISH. You can also find them closer to us at any sports games, meets, plays and concerts put on by Eagles of all different kinds.
And that is what we have here for us this week: events put in place for the good of the student body in order to support and give back to the school. Maiya Mindoro, a senior and one of the StuCo presidents, wants everyone to know: “We had a really great spirit week and homecoming week last year, and we really want to top it and go off the same energy as we did because once we all came together it was something super amazing.” This week, come together, show your Eagle pride and celebrate these students’ hard work. Make each other proud to be an Eagle.