It is a long-honored tradition that every year campuses around the states celebrate homecoming. People from every age get together to celebrate a fantastic school and hopefully a win at that week’s football game. One of the things that people look forward to is the homecoming parade. People from different fraternities, sororities, and businesses put all their time and effort into making an incredible float for everyone to enjoy. It isn’t all fun and games though, so much more goes into creating these fantastic displays.
Time, money, materials, and manpower go into making any great float. Believe it or not floats are not cheap. It takes a lot of tissue paper to cover one float and it can cost hundreds of dollars. Different groups have to figure out different ways to come up with the means to fund it. There are many different ways to fundraise and determining the best way is step one of the process. Hopefully, whatever fundraiser was chosen will work that way people can move onto getting supplies and building the actual float.
While it may seem simple, making a float can take days. It helps to have more people but getting everyone on the same page can be difficult. That is why it is important to come up with a plan and give everyone clear directions on what to do. Once the float is complete, everyone can look at it in amazement.
Homecoming is a great time of year to get together with students, alumni, and faculty to celebrate a great school! I hope that everyone has a great experience wherever you are from. Go Trojans!