“HoCo Week” landed on October 6th-10th, 2025. The chosen theme being Hocochella. Getting dressed up, preparing for the day, and the overall idea of Homecoming brings joy to many people in our generation.
“I look forward to Homecoming the day school starts. I prep and start dress hunting months in advance,” Joss Roberston (‘27) said.
Leading up to Homecoming, the week prior includes many dress-up days and lunchtime events. For 2025, the events include sunglass decorating, water balloon toss, blindfolded guess the drink, horsing around lassoing contest, and zorb attack, which is where students are inside a large plastic ball attacking one another.
The dress up days include: No Paparazzi PJ day, Pop Duo Star Twin Day, Bro-chella Khaki and Collar day, Coachella vs Stagecoach; Beach vs Western, and Neon Nights Neon Out.
“We are required to dress up since we are part of leadership, but this week’s dress-up days were easier to pick outfits for than others, which is why I went all out,” Cole Ono (‘27) said.
But these dress up days are built for the main event most people are excited for: Homecoming.
This year’s Homecoming theme incorporates the uprising trend of music festival vibes and fashion across various schools.
“It’s a newly developing theme that many schools across California are participating in. We thought it would be fun to create a theme that is different and trending right now,” Leadership Teacher and Advisor Shannon Hurtado said.
Leadership works hard to build up excitement for the dance and prepping the morning of. The morning of,
students in leadership come together and set up the rooms that will be available for students during the dance. These rooms include the Casino room, Silent Disco room, Lounge room, and Game room. Leadership students
are assigned shifts during the dance at different stations and sections of the MPR, quad, and hallways.
“My favorite room at the dance was probably the casino room because it was set up with lots of decorations and the games were fun to play with friends,” Kiley Bowan (class) said.
However, Homecoming takes a lot of help outside of leadership. The Intermediate and Advanced Culinary classes make all the desserts and treats, the leadership class sets up the decorations and stations, and the admin create the list of people attending the dance.
“We are so excited and honored to be making desserts for the dance. The students are great in the kitchen and have so much fun with these types of catering projects,” Culinary teacher Amber Russell said.
The night of the dance, the doors open at 7:30, and those who attend have to be inside by 8:30. When entering through the office, attendees will receive a pink wristband and be led into the main area and the dance floor.
“The dance was fine, but hopefully next year is better because the music sucked. The setup of the dance was really cool and on the theme of Hocochella,” Olive Perterson (’28) said.
With the help of Staff, Leadership, and other classes contributions, AGHS came together to make homecoming everlasting for the students.
