Torrington High School held their second Harvest Festival on October 5th, 2024, and was led by the school’s class of 2025 student council.
The senior class student council hosted this year’s Harvest Festival to raise money for the class of 2025’s senior events, including senior outing and prom. The festival included many vendors from both school clubs and organizations from the community. This provides school clubs with the opportunity to raise money and spread awareness. The Harvest Festival took place in Torrington High School’s cafeteria on October 5th from 9am to 2pm.

Mrs. DeMarco, the child development teacher and FCCLA club advisor, will be selling socks at the festival for FCCLA’s annual “Sock’tober” event; in which every sock sold is one donated to children. Additionally, the money raised will be used for the FCCLA members to go visit their pen pals. Prior to the festival, Ms. DeMarco states what she wished to achieve with it, stating that she was “looking to increase awareness of the FCCLA club and provide new opportunities to the new officers to do their thing and raise money for students to visit their pen pals.”
Ms. Haase, the senior class advisor, guided the Class of 2025 student council throughout their preparation for the Harvest Festival. She shares her thoughts on the purpose of the festival: “last year it was used to fundraise for the international trip but this year it’s going to be used for the vendors to fundraise and it’s a way for both community members and students from clubs to sell something to fundraise for themselves and promote their company or club.”
Vendors at the Harvest Festival also offered fun and interactive activities. In addition to many other fun activities, Science Club this year offered a Pumpkin Carving Contest, Class of 2025 Student Council provided a slime making station, and Class of 2027 brought Cornhole. Corinne Chadwick, the Class of 2025 Executive Board Representative, states the festival is “to bring smiles to little kids’ faces.” Micheal Ahoua, the Executive Board President, adds, “while benefiting our own councils funds.”
The festival required extensive preparation, including making candy apples for the Thespians Club, baking cookies, and purchasing lots of candy. The hard work, as Class of 2025 Representative Lilah Boulli says, was “to have a fun time with all of the kids and to raise money.”