This past Wednesday, Rogers High School celebrated the senior prom and the end of the school year.
Rogers High School came out to celebrate the end of the school year and say final goodbyes to the seniors during Wednesday night's senior prom. The prom, which was held at Ocean Cliff Resort, was ocean inspired and put together by students Stephanie Hurney and Tyler McDonald as their senior project. They decided to make the night beach inspired to honor the island school.
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Two Rogers High School seniors made it their senior project to organize the prom, including bringing down ticket prices to only $11.
The dress. The shoes. The hair. The make up. The corsage. The limo. . . The Prom. Some parents cringe at the word while envisioning bank accounts shrivelling before their eyes. Thanks to some creative thinking by a couple of Rogers High School students, prom just got a whole lot cheaper. Instead of breaking the bank for prom tickets, seniors Stephanie Hurney and Tyler McDonald made it their senior project to lower the cost. As a nod to their graduating class year, their pair fundraised enough money to bring the cost of a prom ticket down to $11 for the class of 2011. Last year’s tickets cost about $45, and had the two not come up with the cost-saving idea, this year’s prom night would have cost students up to $60 each, Hurney said. Hurney…
