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our years worth of competition, brought to one parking lot. Junior Rhys Hanson, and the robotics club brought their A game for 2021 Trick or Treat Street and made sure it was good. “Last year we sent a fairly small team and so this year we decided to go all out in whatever manner we could to showcase that we had a lot to offer as a team. We brought multiple robots from four different years of robotics competition but the one we were most excited about was our 2020 FIRST Robotics Bot,” Hanson said. Rhys and his fellow club members followed 3 around the robot to make sure it did its job. Dressed in a white paper holding its candy bowl, the robot lit up green. “We covered it in a large sheet of paper and used the integrated safety light that we are required to have to compete and the camera system targeting light to light up the paper,” Hanson revealed. The complication they went though to use what they were required to have to compete for Best Robotics Bot title helped them become the light of the show, literally. Making the robot shine in the night made the dark cold night, not seem so horrible. “We love to engage people however we can with our work so that we don’t seem like anti-social and uninteresting which is what we are frequently stereotyped as. We hope to continue with this method of engagement through demonstrations of what we can do!” Hanson said. Being in a club that is cliqued as nerdy seems to pay off as people see the shining robot handing out candy, bringing smiles to the new comers of the high BOT CONTROL school. As the community came together that night, Junior Rhys Hanson and the Robotics Club drive around robotics came through. the robot to hand out the candy and interact differently.
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Making it indoors would have better better because it gets cold out that time of year.
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The robot was lit up and helped them see. “Last year we sent a fairly small team and so this year we decided to go all out to show we had a lot to offer as a team. We love to engage people however we can with our work,” Hanson said. photo courtesy of l. thompson
MORE AND MORE SPIDERS
Junior Carly Getz and the other marching band got together and donated spiders. Getz and her club last minute planned their booth for the night, but in the end it pulled together well. “There was so much fun going on and I was cold because I forgot my pants for under my outfit,” Getz said. photo by c. neumeier
HOSAS MR. BOJANGLES
Freshman Emma Fisher is part of HOSA and volunteered to hand out candy. Fisher spent October 27th at school all day to hand candy to the kids and represent her club. “It was super fun to give the kids candy, It was super cold, but we pushed through it” Fisher said. photo courtesy of l. thompson
TWO BUMS
Senior Keagan Lafferty and Junior Alex Miller, two ski bums, give kids candy. Sitting in the back of Lafferty’s car playing music for trick or treat street was a treat in itself. “Alex had just came from skiing and he didn’t have time to get a costume so I went as a ski bum with him,” Lafferty said. photo by c. neumier
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I had lots of fun eating candy and seeing all the cool costumes. My favorite was the pirate lady giving me lots of candy.” Sunny Poe
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TREAT How did you make the most out of trick or treat street? “It got colder throughout the night for sure, but I had a lot of fun. With everybody there, we had a lot of fun and I let a couple people hold my Scottish flag.” Leo Nickerson, sophomore
“It was a cold night, but overall we had a lot of kids come and ge candy and play games. I was apart of book club so we had books of different generes and corn hole that kids played, “ Baylee Tesch, sophomore
NO TRICKS JUST TREATS Senior Anna Nelson stands in the freezing cold with a bowl of dum dums to give out to all the little kids participating trick or treat street. “I was handing out the candy to the little kids, and I really did regret not having more warmth because I was really cold. But it was tons of fun seeing the little kids and their adorable, and creative costumes,” Nelson said. photo courtesy of l. thompson
KEEP IT GREEN WITH SOME TREATS
Keep Conifer Green club’s senior Graciela Fischer stayed out in the freezing cold of Trick or Treat Street as the co-president of the club. Fischer had fun with her club members and handed out the candy while supporting her cause. “I’m not much of a social person but I definitely enjoyed seeing the community come together since quarantine,” Fischer said. photo courtesy of l. thompson
TREES OR TREAT
Junior Maya Dawson and others get down to a little christmas tree’s level so she can pick out her own candy. Dawson was one with the children, and got down to their height so that they didn’t have to be afraid of a big scary kid. “It was so fun to pass out candy to all of the little kids in our community. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, and to be able to make it special for the next generation of Trickor-Treaters makes me so so happy!” Dawson said. photo courtesy of l. thompson
“I wanted to come and make people laugh. I really like to be at the center of all the action and I just really like being dressed as a giant chicken.” Ben Gentry, freshman
“Last year because of COVID-19 kids couldn’t leave their cars during Trick-orTreat street. It was so fun to be face to face with them. To be able to make Halloween special for Trick-or-Treaters makes me happy!” Maya Dawson, junior
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