To kick off Thanksgiving break with fun and excitement, Bowie held its annual Fall Fest. Fall Fest is an event created and planned by the No Place for Hate organization and involves clubs and organizations setting up games and activities for students to learn about the variety of groups that Bowie has to offer.
The Student Council setup corn hole in the courtyard for students to play. Junior student council member Max Broderick spent time with his peers at Fall Fest checking out all of the activities.
“This was a great way for students to spend the day before break because it got their mind off school and let them spend some time with friends,” Broderick said.
Every year No Place for Hate picks a theme for the event that is positive and uplifting for students. This year the theme was Fall.
“I liked the theme because it made me excited for break and it didn’t feel like I was really at a school,” Broderick said. “It was a fun way to show me different clubs at the school.”
Every club at Fall Fest set up games and gave out food with the goal to attract more students to their club and gain more members. Along with cornhole, the student council handed out cookies to any student who wanted them.
“We set up a booth that was fun and interactive with students,” Broderick said. “Our club did definitely attract people because we had a lot more kids at our next meeting after the break.”
Another Bowie club that attracted a big crowd at Fall Fest was the Bowie Bee Club. Sophomore and club vice president Pluto Trippe helped run the Bee Club booth. They handed out hot honey tea and showed interested students a live honeycomb that came straight from the Bowie bee hives.
“I honestly believe everyone had an amazing time that day, students that seemed shy were coming up to me and asking questions and it was just smiles everywhere, even the teachers were having fun,” Trippe said.
The activities and drinks given out from the Bee Club made many students want to stop by and learn all about what the club does.
“It definitely attracted people, we had teachers and students asking for seconds of our tea,” Trippe said. “I think people really loved our club, we had people bring us live bees that they found around the courtyard and we had teachers coming up to us and saying our tea was getting popular.”
Among the many students curious about the clubs and programs at Fall Fest, junior Lily Warren participated in different activities with her friends and got interested in what the clubs had to offer
“I thought that every booth had a different spin on the theme that was connected to each activity and it was really interesting and cool,” Warren said.
Warren helped her softball teammates run their cup pong booth. Cup pong was one of the many booths that students were drawn to.
“Our activity attracted a good amount of people, everyone who participated seemed to be having a fun time,” Warren said.
With the fall theme in full effect, students had a fun transition from school to Thanksgiving break by being able to go enjoy fun games and activities.
“It really made me feel like we were about to go on break and I got to spend time with all my friends all day,” Warren said.
