![Hosting the SCLA Casptone Mentor Dinner outside allowed for more attendees on September 27, 2021 at Silver Creek. This event would’ve usually been held inside. According to Lauren Kohn, a SCLA 12 teacher, “If we have a higher number of people, as long as we can host the event outside, then that seems to be keeping every[one] safe”.](https://schsnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/sxMAIGbSYGodZkqmrvTi5YWcJ1ssWA08ApkeMLpp-900x675.jpeg)
The Vibe of Silver Creek
The bell rings at 1:07, and students rush into the halls to make it to their last class of the day. Students walk into their classes with a tired, but joyful feeling as they enter their classroom.
Silver Creek High School in Longmont, Colorado has been open since 2001. Now, 23 years later, the school holds around 1,200 students. The students and the teachers make the environment and the vibe: welcoming.
Annika Sesselmann, a senior at Silver Creek explains “when I walk into school, I feel very welcomed, all the teachers are telling me good morning.”
The day starts off with a welcoming vibe with all of the teachers greeting the students. “I think it’s a safe place. If I have questions, the teacher, my peers, they all help me,” Sesselmann said. This is why it’s no surprise when for some, SCHS is a safe space, a place where people are having fun and feeling welcome.
Elijah Charlton, a freshman at Silver Creek said “it’s a pretty kind community that helps each other.”
Nola Abraham a Silver Creek junior said that the vibe depends..
“It depends on the day and like if I see my friends in the hallway I’m really excited; or other times I know I’m gonna be writing an essay so I’m just gonna meander a little bit,” Abraham said.
“The vibe is kind of whatever you make it,” Abraham said. And to make the vibes fun, “you’ve got to be the first one to make it fun.” Despite all the school work, students still figure out how to make the school environment fun.
Similarly, Freshman Addie Riedel said [The vibe] “Can be very fun but also serious at the same time,” She explains how she is “Excited to start a new day and energized and ready to learn,” when she walks into the school.
Riedel said the vibe of SCHS is “very good.” Although, “At the end of the day, I just get really tired, but in class, it can be really fun and uplifting to have good teachers.”
Assistant Principal Eric Ottem has been working at SCHS for 17 years. He is a part of the reason many feel the vibe of SCHS is welcoming.
Ottem said that when he walks into school “the first thing I feel is I want to smile to everybody.” Along with creating the vibe, he also said that the vibe of SCHS is “inclusive” because “most kids who come here are very accepting and want to feel connected to the other kids in this school.”
SCHS has been open for 23 years, and the vibes are from the community itself. The vibe can be good, bad, tiring, inclusive, and many more, but it all comes down to the people. Whether it’s in sports communities, or the classes, most students and staff feel welcome. And is not feeling welcome the epitome of a bad vibe?
