East Meadow High School and the surrounding community celebrated homecoming on Oct. 16 with a celebratory parade and football game against Port Washington.

Starting from Veteran’s Memorial Park and led by the East Meadow High School marching band, school administrators, board members, faculty and students marched through the neighborhood to the high school.

The theme for this year’s floats was “superheroes.” While students riding on the floats threw treats to those supporting them, members of the homecoming court were escorted throughout the parade, followed by the high school’s cheerleading and kickline teams.

After performances by the kickline team, cheerleaders and the marching band, halftime celebrations concluded with the crowning of the Homecoming King Matthew Oberhaus and Queen Brianna Mohammed.

The East Meadow Jets lost a nail-biter to the Port Washington Vikings, with a final score of 30-28. The pride was undeniable and the district thanks all supporters, fellow students and administrators for showing their support at the homecoming parade and game.

Five East Meadow High School students teamed up during the summer to create a commemorative mural. High school students Crystal Richardson, Janette Hassan, Zhaire Felton, Halle Zavlick and Samantha Muggeo crafted a 4-feet-tall, 8-feet-wide mural of notable activists and leaders.

Richardson said that the mural, which features numerous groundbreaking figures in American history such as transgender rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, novelist James Baldwin and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, among others, took about three months to complete.

The mural also features newspaper clippings highlighting different moments of each historical figure.

The College Board announced that East Meadow High School students Nicholas Won, Lauren Rodriguez, Natalie Hernandez and Lauren Canto were named as National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars.

Each student earned this recognition based on their remarkable academic achievements and outstanding performance on the PSAT and the Advanced Placement exams.

East Meadow High School student Jordan Mason was honored by the College Board as a scholar for the National African American Recognition Program. Mason earned this recognition based on his remarkable academic achievements and outstanding performance on the PSAT and the Advanced Placement exams.