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Behind the scenes of the Senior Sendoff Rally, taking place on May 23rd Said Julie Yang, ASB’s spirit director, “We had to kind of start over.” The dance choreograt has been over three years phers faced issues after the since Cupertino High School send-off rally was moved to the has hosted its last senior send- gym. Since the gym is smaller off rally. With very few people on than the football field, the chocampus with experience hosting reographers had to significanta senior send-off rally, the spirit ly shrink the dance formations commission, class councils, and which they had initially designed dance choreographers faced for previous rallies. The space constraints many hurdles to and overovercome while AFTER THE SPIRIT flow of stuplanning this COMMISSION WAS TOLD dents onto rally. gym T h e THAT NO INDOOR RAL- the floor during WOULD HAPPEN first hurdle was LIES the location. THIS YEAR, THEY WERE indoor rallies posed Previous ral- SURPRISED TO HEAR a significant lies this school year have been THAT THE SENIOR SEND- c h a l l e n g e hosted on the OFF RALLY WOULD TAKE for choreographers like football field, PLACE IN THE GYM Kathleen but the send-off Hua. Said rally was moved Hua,, “I’m kinda scared that [the to the gym. After the spirit comdancers] will hit [the students mission was told that no indoor rallies would happen this year, watching].” The second hurdle was they were surprised to hear that finding inspiration. Said Yang, the senior send-off rally would “Because we haven’t done the take place in the gym. The spirsenior send-off rally since our it commission had to learn how freshman year, it’s been very to use the audio in the gym and difficult trying to find out what completely change plans from people usually do and how they what they initially designed. have done it in past years.” The NACHIKET KERAI writer
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spirit commission came up with the idea to have the rally be a mashup of all the rally themes done by the class of 2022. Each of the classes at rally would have a theme matching one the class of 2022 had already executed at previous homecomings. The third hurdle was choosing which groups would perform. Many clubs on campus wanted the opportunity to perform on campus. In order to give every club wanted to perform an opportunity to participate in some way, the spirit commission spread out club performances throughout spirit week and selected only a few to perform at the rally. Despite challenges ranging from the switch to the gym, the tight schedules due to APs and finals, the amount of clubs wanting to participate and the lack of references to draw inspiration from, every person involved in planning the rally has worked their hardest to give a special moment to the seniors
