Links to Specific Topics:

• Floats

• Airbands
• Games (overall) and Best Dressed
• Sportsmanship
• Distribution of Points

Floats:

1. Floats must relate to the Homecoming theme or individual dress-up themes. Each class’s
2. Float must include the class’s colors.
3. Floats must not contain exposed splinters, burrs, screws, or nails. All aspects of the float should be neatly constrained properly, through joints and/or fasteners.  Floats must not damage the campus. All electronics must be covered and moving joints must be concealed.
4. A significant element of the float must be covered with tissue paper. All chicken wire must be covered with tissue paper.
5. Floats may contain the following:

1. Materials: wood, metal (plate, rod, boxbeam, eyelets, or weights), ABS/PLA plastic products, canvas, paper products, cotton balls, fabrics, plexiglass/polycarbonate sheets; PVC pipe, rope/string, fishing line; chicken wire, tissue paper, paints, spray paints, mylar, turf, foam, modeling clay.
2. Fasteners: nails, screws, bolts; glue, bonding cement; duct tape, blue tape; cables, zip ties.
3. Moving parts: safely contained springs, hinges, lazy susans, pulleys.
4. Electronics: motors, batteries, minicomputers/microcontrollers, speakers, cables & insulation material, string lights.
5. To request additional materials, talk to your grade’s Float leads.  No materials requests can be made after the Monday (10/13) before Homecoming Week.

6. Aspects of the float that are loaned, rather than built from scratch (with the exception of electronics such as motors and minicomputers), must be approved in a meeting with all class officers.
7. The breakdown of the cost will be $1300 for materials, $120 for tissue paper. Materials budget can be used for food, suggested $200.
8. Your Float may not exceed the dimensions of 600 sq feet on the ground and 20’H from the ground. Area can be divided. Anything outside of the 600 square feet will not be judged.
9. Parent help is limited to power tool supervision and operation.  The students of each class must perform all construction.
10. The presidents and vice-presidents will organize clean up after Float assembly and set up.  Clean up will need to be completed by Friday at 6pm, or there will be a points deduction in sportsmanship.

(Floats Continued)

11. Class presidents enforce Float rules. Violations should be reported to Mrs. Hall, the Student Body President and the class president involved. A class that is found breaking Float rules will be demoted to 4th place

Air Bands:

1. Length: Maximum of 4 minutes.
2. Run-Through: Wednesday, 10/15, during PRIME  (Titan Gym)
3. Budget: $200 for props or pieces of costume that all participants use.
4. The following must be present at the time of the run-through:

1. the final version of the music in playable music file format.
2. sample costume: one person must wear the outfit to be used (class colors must be featured). Individual costumes may not exceed $25 per person out-of-pocket (newly purchased items)
3. props cannot make a mess or damage/modify the venue.  
4. stunting: no stunting is allowed where a student’s waist is above shoulder-height of the person lifting.  Tumbling and partner dance lifts that meet the lift height rule are allowed. Any moves that may be in question should be reviewed with Mrs. Hall before the run-through Wednesday before Homecoming Week and she will make a final decision on the legality and safety of the move.
5. The following moves used in previous years (as well as others that may not be listed) are no longer considered legal:

• Having someone sit on another person's shoulders
• Holding someone above shoulder height who is lying horizontally or standing vertically.
• Holding someone above shoulder height who is doing the splits and sitting up
• Having someone stand on someone’s back of one person or two other people who are bent over at the waist & holding each other's arms
• Other moves that are not allowed include anything that involves someone doing a flip or a fall back from any height other than the ground.  

5. Mrs. Hall and the class advisors will critique the Air Bands based on their standards of decency and clearly communicate any necessary changes at the time of the run-through.
6. Air Bands may not be changed in any way after the run through without Mrs. Hall’s approval.
7. No air band practice may take place anywhere indoors on the Gunn campus.
8. Mandatory Air Bands practice time will not exceed forty (40) hours total.  This does not include music editing or choreographing time needed.  All classes must submit a practice schedule to Ms. Hall by a date determined at the President’s Meeting.
9. No additional practices may be added after the final practice schedule is approved by Ms. Hall, practices may only be shortened in length or canceled.
10. Any violation of the airbands rules will lead to a demotion to 4th place.

Games and Best Dressed Competition:

1. At no time may anyone approach the student Emcee to discuss rule disputes or cheating.
2. In the event of any rule disputes, only presidents may approach Ms. Hall to present their grievance. After consultation with the judges, Mrs. Hall, the SBP & VP will make a decision and announce the results later that day.
3. Classes involved in rule disputes will split their points if the judges acknowledge confusion in the application of the rules.
4. In the event there are technical difficulties with aspects of the game, the contestants involved, Mrs. Hall and the judges will discuss the issue and make a final decision on moving forward.
5. Any cheating will result in the disqualification of that class and automatic 4th place in the event.
6. Rule enforcement is up to the faculty judges of each contest who will be given the rules prior to each event and participate in a run-through.
7. A class will receive last place in any competition at which its members make inappropriate contact with students of another class before, during or after the event.
8. Best Dressed Competition will be judged by teachers digitally on Thursday of Homecoming Week..

Sportsmanship:  

1. Each grade starts each day of Homecoming with a total of 1,000 points, to add up to 5,000 by the end of the week.  Each grade will retain all 1,000 points allotted for that day, if no issues arise due to the following:

1. Trash/respect for campus: -200 points
2. Large group actions:  -600 points
3. Online slander/bullying towards another class or on behalf of a class: -400 points

2. Float cleanup will be worth an additional 1,200 points on the Friday of Homecoming Week.
3. Any individual actions will be dealt with by the administration and the administration reserves the right to deduct points from a class if deemed appropriate.
4. Mrs. Hall will make the final decision in determining point deductions for trash/ respect for campus. 
5. Concrete evidence must be provided in regards to online slander/bullying (example: live viewing of an internet page, email communication, etc. where slander occurred.)

Point Distribution:

I agree to the above rules and regulations and will do my best to ensure that my class abides by them:

Aman Solanki & Arez Rao                                Richard de la Garza & Dante Chung

Class of 2026                                                Class of 2027

Ren Lin & Athena Gao                                        Ellie Hu & Samuel Leon

Class of 2028                                                Class of 2029