A change of direction for this year’s Trick or Treat Street brings interesting new challenges. Trick or Treat Street is a newer tradition where people all over the district, ranging from preschool to middle school, come to Heritage and trick-or-treat throughout the halls. Clubs and sports organize fun activities and treats for everyone who attends.
Last year, over 500 people attended, which was more people than originally expected. As a result, this year, the Student Government changed the layout of how people were to trick or treat throughout the building. Instead of having two floors to Trick or Treat, they extended it to all three floors. But with this came more challenges for clubs. According to Tobin Long ‘27, he states, “I really think that last year’s was better because this year, it was on three floors, but they had people going in from the top all the way down and people were getting lost.” There wasn’t much information on how many clubs and sports there were, so people had confusion on where they were and how long it would take to get through the entire building. Long added, “People would not go to the first floor because they didn’t know there was something on the first floor. So I was there for about 30 minutes, and we barely got people on the first floor. We got maybe 50 people when there were over 200 kids.” All visitors were clumped on the 3rd floor which left less people on the 2nd and 1st floor. This problem was then later fixed once there was more communication between clubs and sports telling the visitors to go to lower floors because there was more to see throughout the building.
Although there were some difficulties in adjusting to the new route many people thought that the event was a success overall. According to Nyx Smith ‘27, she says, “I think it was successful because I think a lot of people had really creative ideas that the kids really liked. A lot of clubs and sports got very creative with their activities and rooms.” Trick or Treat Street brings the Heritage community to other schools by having many school visits. Smith continued, “I think we should continue to host this event. I think it’s a really great opportunity to bond with Runyon and it’s good to show them what Heritage is all about.” Trick or Treat Street welcomed over ten different schools to Heritage this year.
Activities this year had to adapt to a new route and a new group of people that came to Trick or Treat Street. But these clubs and sports adapted to their new set up and created new communications to help them to adapt to this event. This is only the second year of Trick or Treat Street so there are many more opportunities to develop this event.