Hundreds of families flooded the Green for M-A’s annual Trick or Treat Street on Wednesday afternoon. Children, spanning from babies to middle schoolers, dressed up in their best costumes to play games and stock up on candy.
Leadership decorated the Green with a variety of stations for the children: face painting, a bouncy house, musical chairs, pumpkin decorating, and candy corn bowling. Leadership also set up a prize table for attendees to exchange their tickets from winning games for exciting prizes, such as duckies or candy. Families played games like freeze dance and competed in potato sack races. Halloween hits like “Monster Mash” by The Crypt-Kickers and “Thriller” by Michael Jackson filled the Green with great energy.
“It all brings the community together and is a wonderful way to kind of introduce the high school too, because I’ve never actually been here,” elementary school parent Phil N. said.
Almost 40 M-A clubs participated in the event, decorating their designated classroom doors and handing out candy in vibrant costumes. Clubs such as the Female Athletes Association and the Drama Club showed up to make the night special for trick-or-treaters.
“I love it. I’m so impressed that you guys prepared it for the little kids. I think for the little kids, it means much more than you would think. They will remember it,” parent Gosha Lukowic said.
Other clubs showed off the projects they have been working on. The Robotics Team entertained the community with their most recent project: a robot that can shoot hoops.
“It was really fun to watch the kids watch the robot, because we also let them put in [a game piece] so they could actually participate in it,” junior Robotics Team member Nathan Sanocki said.
Some clubs decorated their doors creatively with customized designs like big blue monsters or Wicked-themed accessories for the Best Decorated Door Contest. With all the amazingly decorated doors, the top three were made by the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Latinos Unidos de M-A (LUMA), and French Culture Club.
LUMA celebrated Día de los Muertos by accessorizing their door with colorful decorations like calaveras and papel picado. “Halloween is [a big part] of Hispanic heritage. We do Día de los Muertos to remember the dead and who they were. It really means a lot,” junior LUMA member Jose Guzman said.
Adorable and original costumes were fan favorites—ranging from firemen and policemen to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs. “They have these cute outfits on. They’re all different,” freshman Sophia Day said.
After an evening full of tricks and treats, families left Trick or Treat Street beaming with Halloween spirit and bags full of candy.
Family is all smiles in their superhero costumes. 
Girl dressed up in a Stitch costume picks out candy. 
Minion sisters tend table for Leadership. 
Spiderman picks his candy. 
Firefighter grinning from ear to ear. 
Family shows off their Halloween spirit. 
Attendee looks out for crime in her police outfit. 
Attendee dressed as Chase from Paw Patrol. 
Leadership is all smiles working at their table. 
Attendee rocks his fireman costume. 
Attendee shows off her pumpkin in her pumpkin costume.
