A giant cassette tape, Tetris on wheels and the Ghostbusters’ Ectomobile rolled through the halls of Hutchinson High School last week, spewing candy and blasting ’80s jams — all for the annual homecoming parade.

The career technical high school has a unique take on a classic tradition.

“It basically started because we were seeing other schools have homecoming but with no football team, we never had a reason to,” Arts and A/V teacher Ben Johnson said.

Since 2008, Hutch has celebrated homecoming in a distinct way. Each of the five major Career Clusters — Automotive, Arts and A A/V Technology & Communications, Information Technology (IT), Architecture and Construction, and Health Science — design and build floats according to the theme and their craft. This year was the ’80s, and of course

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