November 15th marks another year of Color Wars, an annual event where each grade is assigned a color to represent and put on a performance for. Students planning to participate in the event arrived early at 7:30 in the morning to set up their respective hallway and decorate. Judges came around to watch each presentation, that time period being open to other students not involved in their grade level’s Color Wars to walk around campus and see what each grade has come up with. After the hallway performances, there was one more area to score: recital.
The class of 2030 dedicated their hallway to a murder mystery in Clue. Sixth graders lined the hall in red and yellow caution tape, drawing chalk outlines around the victims to preserve the crime scene. For their recital performance, they reenacted the killing of a young woman, going on to solve the case and arrest the true culprit.
The class of 2029 made ofrendas and portraits to commemorate dia de los muertos to represent the color orange. Students wore sombreros and day of the dead makeup to represent the culture, others holding up cardboard cut outs of the deceased. Two seventh grade creative writers, Kaden Cordero and Samuel Murillo-Hernandez did slam poetry, while other students performed “Remember Me,” from Coco on the mainstage including a dance performance and music. Lillien Tippett, a seventh grade Visual Artist, said, “I love the sense of community that being a part of Color Wars is. How I can help by doing art that I love and getting representation for it.”
The class of 2028 went with SpongeBob to represent yellow. There were jelly fish decorations and music to go along with recognizable characters along the hall. On mainstage, they presented a typical SpongeBob episode plot: SpongeBob and Patrick bothering Squidward, and Plankton trying to steal the Crabby Patty secret formula.
The freshman class of 2027 represented green with a journey into the wilderness through a safari trek like hallway. A scene from the wild included a student getting “eaten” by a plush lion. Some of the choreographed dances in recital were to “Circle of Life” from the Lion King, “I Like to Move It” from Madagascar, and “You’ll be in My Heart” from Tarzan.
The sophomore class of 2026 set the scene with the artic for light blue. Students used a fog machine to reenact the aftermath of the yeti attack, some dressed in warm layers while others pretended to be dying of frostbite. Five students starred as a group of artic survivors when a blizzard of dancers in white puff vests rush across the stage. After the dancers move out, six sirens start singing a deadly harmony and the performance ends.
The junior class of 2025 represented dark blue with “dreamland,” students dressing up as “dreams” and “nightmares,” accompanied by orchestra majors and jump scare actors at the end. For recital, the performance takes place in a dream, music by band, orchestra, and vocal majors, that is suddenly overrun by “nightmares.”
The senior class of 2024 chose to present purple this year with Mardi Gras, featuring a party float, Cafe du Monde, and famous locations like Bourbon Street. In recital, “tourists” were taken around the town to see the sights of New Orleans, featuring band and orchestra producing the music for their own dance acts throughout the allotted time.
The president of the student government association, Reina Sanchez, announced that for the winners of the middle school Color Wars, seventh grade took first, sixth grade was second, with eighth grade in third. For high school, seniors took first, freshman in second, sophomore was third, with juniors in 4th.
