Homecoming was full of events, dressing up, the football game and the homecoming dance. But without Sarah Knight, many of these events would remain unfinished. Knight is a senior and the Student Body President of NHS for this school year. Knight has been in the student government her entire high school career. Her time during September was dedicated to planning, preparing, and running homecoming.

“Before homecoming, I was responsible for gathering student government opinion on the theme and spirit days and making a final decision, getting the design for the front of the [homecoming] shirt, the ticket and gathering the grade level designs for the back of the shirts. I also hired and met with the DJ to plan the evening and ordered the food and ensured we had adequate security and chaperones. Finally, I had to order the crowns and banners for the [homecoming] courts and made sign- up sheets for the mini Olympics and the court nominations,” Knight said.

As the beginning of the hectic homecoming week began, so did preparation for the big end to the week. With many major events comes complications. This year, Knight was faced with not enough people signing up for Mini Olympics, as well as several other complications surrounding t-shirt sales with the freshman class. Knight had to quickly think of solutions to the problems at hand.

With t-shirt sales, there were very few orders coming from the freshman class. So as a motivational opportunity, she went to the freshman student government for help. She encouraged them to go to classrooms and do a quick push of t-shirts to the freshman class. This resulted in an increase in sales.

Among the problems they faced was the building of the homecoming floats. With little help, Knight had to make sure that the floats were finished in time for the parade. She and other student government members urged others to come and help their class. But just in time, the tasks were completed and everything was ready to go on time.

Having managed the t-shirts and the parade, the last thing on her to-do list was the dance. In selling the 1,300  homecoming tickets they ordered, Knight had to acquire more chaperones for the dance. Despite the pressure, she managed to get enough chaperones, and the dance went smoothly.

Knight hopes that her experiences will help students improve student government over the years after she is gone.

“Over the years, I believe more kids have gotten involved and that leads to improvement.  We have more ideas coming in and are becoming involved in more community service projects as a group and a school,” Knight said.

In her final year at NHS, Knight is excited for her future after high school and hopes that her experience with student government will help her later in college and in jobs.

     After all the homecoming madness, Knight  expressed her joyful times with being in and participating in student government.

“I am very happy to be a part of student government,” Knight said. “It has been a great experience and I have learned a lot already.”