This year’s annual Snowcoming Dance will be held on Feb. 7, in the Commons. The dance is held every year by StuCo and has been for 13 years and beyond. When Jani Wilkens became a teacher at Francis Howell North, the dance was a formal, almost more formal than Homecoming.

“I like Snowcoming because there’s a smaller amount of people,” said Sophomore Lavanya Kolluru. “Also because they do creative things, like the neon bubbles and facepainting.”

Like previous years, this year the dance will contain the Techno Bubbles. Student Council has used the bubbles for 5 or 6 years now. According to Wilkens facepainting will also be returning to this year’s dance.

“This dance recognizes students by their teachers,” Wilkens said, “It’s kind of neat because it involves a different group of students.”

The Snowcoming Dance is different in terms of how the courts are selected. Instead of the students nominating their peers, the teachers nominate students and then the students can vote on their classes court. Snowcoming courts are announced at the pep assembly, usually the day before the dance.

“The dress code is casual, not too dressy, but no sweatpants or anything like that,” junior Kamila Zendran said.

When deciding what to wear for the dance, students should not dress too fancy, but not totally casual. Some kids wear club like clothing, school appropriate, or just jeans and a t-shirt. The school dress code still applies.

“The music is always really good and the DJ really knows how to keep the crowd excited,” Kolluru said.

Usually StuCo hires the same DJ every year for the past few years, but this time he was unavailable. Instead, StuCo hired Scott Moore from Creative Services. In case of a cancellation or early ending to the dance, which happened last year, the school administrators would decide if there would be a rescheduling or not.