See Moments from Creek’s Historic Pep Assembly During Power Week
With power week’s fundraising going to bags of fun, it is only suitable for a bags of fun stuffing competition. A student from every grade is selected to stuff a bag filled with games and toys as a friendly and fun competition to physically “show” how these bags are made and why the money the school raised is important with its use. In the photo above, senior Dalton Berkey is seen stuffing a board game into a backpack. The race ended with Dalton Berkey winning and ending power week on a fun note.
April 5, 2022
During Power Week (March 28 to April 1), the Creek community engaged in many different fundraising activities, such as Mini Golf and a talent show, which culminated in a Friday assembly where they presented Bags of Fun with a donation.
Every year, Creek hosts Power Week to raise money for Bags of Fun, a foundation which delivers toys and games to sick children nationwide. The goal this year was to raise $25,000. By the end of the week, the school donated $62,000, surpassing their past donations to the foundation.
Activities Director Krista Keogh is proud of students’ unique involvement this year and believes it greatly contributed to this Power Week’s success.
“I think the Cherry Creek Sports Network’s 12 in 12 coverage was a game changer,” Keogh said. “That day we brought in over $16,000, and they had found a donor to match all of those funds. So that was pretty amazing!”
Seniors Thomas Fischer and Charlie Eigner, and junior Nick Henry, participated in the beloved yearly Mr. Creek contest. This year the winner was senior Caden Kuptz. These men put together a memorable show with a team/group dance, lip sync battle, talent, and interview questions that kept the audience engaged and wanting more. This year’s power week assembly had the addition of the men’s amazing dance. Senior Charlie Eigner said, “Mr. Creek was really fun just because all of the boys were happy to do it, and they are all really nice guys and we had a good time, it was just fun comradery.”
Power week is a week of Cherry Creek High School fundraising money for the non-profit organization Bags of Fun. This organization creates bags of fun for children in hospitals going through long treatments. These bags are filled with games and other toys to allow those children to have a sense of fun and normalcy to be kids during their treatments. This year Cherry Creek High School students and donors raised sixty-two thousand dollars. The picture above has the Cherry Creek High School Mascot, the Bruin, and a frog for Power Week.
The Pep Assembly was a huge success and blast to watch all of the performances. One of the best was from our very own National Championship team, The Cherry Creek Poms. This was sadly the seniors last pom performance of the year. They went out in a bang and had an amazing season. Pictured above in formation ready to dance Captain Ruby Silverman leads the poms through a fun and amazing routine with some great spirited music.
Senior Emily Zhou is a member of the student senate. She is seen collecting money for Power Week with a last minute dash for cash during the assembly. In those few minutes, the student sections raised over $800.
Power week’s fun and up hearted assembly was hosted by Cherry Creek High Schools favorite MC’s Jack Zurcher and Ben Grubber. Through the assembly Jack and Ben had their own rendition of dad jokes. Although the jokes were glorious, for dad jokes, they kept everything light hearted and humorous in between speakers and performances from students during the assembly.
Cherry Creek High School’s student senate planned all of the amazing events and fundraisers for power week. Pictured above with the Cherry Creek mascot and the power week frog, senate is standing and reminiscing on the great and incredible work they have accomplished during power week, by raising sixty-two thousand dollars.
Principal Ryan Silva, smiling for the great power week we had this year. He is modeling the power week, purple and green, Tshirt with of course the power week frog.
Mr. Creek is one of the main highlights of power week. The photo above showcases these hard working men doing their group dance to a song.
Seniors Stella Willoughby, Gia DeBastos, and Lana Ades all pose at the end of their poms routine for the last time in their poms career.
Article by Amanda Castillo-Lopez. Photo gallery by Sydney Topelson.
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