SWAG has been a tradition at Lewis-Palmer high school for many years. Each year, the senior girls kidnap the senior boys and dress them up in costumes to wear to school. Although the senior class gets very little sleep on the night of SWAG, it is still an event that all students anticipate.

Though not a school sponsored event, SWAG is run by the senior girls. The girls create their groups and design each costume, which are usually made of inexpensive materials found at Walmart of craft stores. The senior boys are not allowed to know what their costume is ahead of time, and this adds a surprise element to the excitement and fun of SWAG.

“We brainstormed and picked the costumes that would be the cutest, cheapest and easiest to make,” Morgan Dougan, 12, said. “We tried to make the boys’ costumes match ours as best we could.”

SWAG is a fun way for students to also express their school spirit. The school day is full of laughter as students get the chance to see each costume. Although the senior class had to attend school with only a few hours of sleep, seniors expressed their excitement throughout the school day.

“It was a fun sense of school spirit. I was very tired during the day, but I still had a great time hanging out with my friends and staying up on a school night,” Dougan said.