By Ella Hopkins-Gianotti and Anwita Puttam – Staff Reporters

As the holiday season begins, Law’s Advisories are hustling to compete in the annual Door Decorating Contest. 

Each Advisory class at Law is in the competition. This year, for the first time, the theme is Lawlidays Wonderland, and all doors are due to be completed by noon on December 20. 

“To celebrate this special time of year, we invite all Advisors to participate in a Lawliday Wonderland Decorating Contest,” Dean of Students Mr. Ragaini said. “This year, we encourage all advisors to incorporate elements from various winter holidays, such as Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and more, into their designs.”

This door decorating contest is a way for students to spread holiday joy. It’s also a way for students to express the many different ways people celebrate the holiday season, expanding on the many unique traditions that people celebrate.

“I think I was inspired because I’ve seen so much on social media about ‘Wicked’ and how popular it is,” Spanish teacher Mrs. Trombetta said. “I discussed it with my Advisory and we agreed that we could use the tagline ‘We are all popular at Law’ to promote inclusivity while staying on theme.”

One of the popular doors among the students is Ms. Trombetta’s “Wicked”-themed door. She and her Advisory got rave reviews by completely decorating their door to fit the theme of the new “Wicked” movie. They also set up little props to take pictures with.

“I am in Mr. Barcellos’s advisory and our theme for the door was the movie ‘Elf,’ – my suggestion, of course,” freshman Cora Aitkenhead said. “I think my class door has a shot at getting on the podium, but the ‘Wicked’ door looks pretty great, and I liked Mrs. Evans’s Law-themed cotton ball snowman door.”

Time and effort were put into making each of these doors. Many of these doors include candy cane balloons, movie references, books, snowmen, gift-wrapped doors, and even the students’ and teachers’ faces on the doors themselves.

“My favorite part of door decorating was easily getting to see all of our hard work come together as we assembled the door,” Aitkenhead said. “I put in a lot of effort to make pieces of our door at home, but it was awesome to see people pitch in and collaborate to make such an awesome finished product.”

Inspiration for these doors came from various different places.

“I have Ms. Russell for Advisory and my class wanted to create something that was funny,” freshman Cayleigh Glynn said. “We wanted people that were walking by our door to be able to laugh a little bit.”

The contest also kept people in the holiday spirit while also allowing them to be creative and have fun. 

“My classmates enjoyed the decorating,” freshman Dylan Gaillard said. “It was really fun and it kept everyone engaged.”