On Wednesday October 20, students, faculty, and community members attended the first inaugural community pep rally where attendees came to support clubs and cheer on athletic programs. 

Clubs and organizations were given opportunities to have booths where they hosted games and fun activities. The teacher of the year Mr. Garcia was announced, and the freshman forthcoming court.  Cheer, band, and the Majestics entered the field with new routines and songs to hype up the crowd.

“The goal was to celebrate student organization,” Assistant Principal Christina Hawkes said.“It was an event to help students get excited for our Forthcoming game.¨  

The students were very excited to show the organizations they are a part of, and to show their spirit by cheering on the school. Nora Regas is a student and our ITS president for theatre. 

“I’m really excited to finally all get together,” sophomore Nora Regas said. “I think it’s fun that we are doing it during forthcoming week and all being together was a good experience for Emerson.” This quote doesn’t add to the story. 

Community pep rallies are new and upcoming events. There were many community sponsors there like food trucks, the DJ, and snow cone truck. 

“The community pep rally is different than a normal pep rally because you can celebrate and honor more groups,” Mrs. Hawkes said. “It wasn’t just athletics, our art club and DECA club was there, so students got to see different facets of the campus.” 

There were many performances at the pep rally including cheer, drill team, band, and choir. 

“My favorite part of the pep rally was watching the Majestics perform,” sophomore Savanna Maxwell said. “They are so good at what they do, and I want to try out next year, so it gets me excited about it.”

The community pep rally is something that is new to the community, and changes the way that the school involves the community. 

“We will do a community pep rally in the future,” Mrs. Hawkes said. “Our goal would be for it to get bigger and bigger every year and have more of our feeder schools and more community members come out.”