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Help Design & Build 🙏 Help Staff Grad Night

Help Urgently Needed NOW 🟡 Why Volunteer? 🟡 How Parents Traditionally Help

HELP URGENTLY NEEDED NOW (APR-JUN 2025)

Help Design & Build Grad Night Sets!

Help needed NOW through MAY 30

SIGN UP HERE to help us create the Grad Night sets. You know how we say Grad Night is magical? It's because of the sets! The school is literally transformed into a wonder the students have never seen before.

The workspace is nearby! You will have fun (see Why Volunteer?). You do not have to be creative, but we love it if you are! You will be with friends and make friends.

Work Orders

As you enter the worksite, on your left will be a clipboard next to the red basket 🧺 containing Design Request Forms with detailed instructions for what needs to be painted or built.

Worksite Location & Open Hours

The Grad Night worksite, located at 101 G Town & Country Drive, Danville, CA 94526 (former location of Abbey Carpets), will be open on these days.

M-W-F: 2 PM - 7 PM
T-Thu: 1 PM - 8 PM
Saturdays: 1 PM - 6 PM
Any Other Time: Get the access code from your area lead! But please make sure you're not there alone, always with a work buddy!

Help STAFF GRAD NIGHT!

ALL PARENTS: Help needed FRI JUNE 6

SIGN UP HERE to staff this mind-blowing event that truly takes a village. It's SRVHS tradition that parents of all grades help to staff Grad Night. You won't be sorry! You will see the courtyard transformed into an unforgettable dreamscape. If you only volunteer for one thing all year, you will want it to be this. Parents, guardians, out-of-town guests, and alumni welcome to help!

Why Volunteer?

Volunteering offers you a chance to network with other SRVHS parents and
make lasting connections while having fun.
Sign up with a friend and have fun together, or plan on making new friends!

🤫 SHHH! Don't tell anyone this, but...

Volunteering for Grad Night is also really FUN!

Oh, OK, you can tell people if you want! 📢

Have no time? PLEASE donatE TO GRAD NIGHT!

If you absolutely can't find time to volunteer, consider donating to make Grad Night possible! We gratefully accept cash donations, be they private donations or corporate sponsorships. We also accept in-kind donations, such as supplies, food, prizes, and services. Check our donations page for details!

We make it easy to donate prizes with our Amazon Registry for Prizes and design supplies with our Amazon Registry for Design.

We also run fundraisers to help support Grad Night. Check our Fundraisers page for fun things you can do for your student--and ways you can help!

COMING IN MAY: MOVE THE GRAD NIGHT SETS BACK TO THE SCHOOL

Help Move from the Build Site back to SRV on Saturday May 30!

We will move items from our work site at Town and Country (101 G Town & Country Drive, Danville, CA 94526: former location of Abbey Carpets, near Fitness 19, Walgreens, etc.) into the school!

If you have a truck, trailer, car, or anything else with wheels we need you extra badly!
If you are willing to help load or unload we need you whether you can work a couple of hours or all day!
Please bring work gloves, any dollies, hand carts, wagons, and any furniture-moving equipment.
If you have friends or neighbors, we need them too!
Students can help too: great if you need some volunteering hours!

How to Pay it Forward: Roles for Parents of Different Grades

Not sure what to sign up for? There's an SRV tradition where parents of different grade levels play different roles in Grad Night.

We need help from parents of all grade levels. Many people assume that Grad Night is something only parents of seniors have to think about, but we need everyone. In fact, there's a whole pay-it-forward tradition for all parents.

Senior Parents

Parents of graduating seniors do the heavy lifting by taking on the preparation (planning and building) that starts months prior to the event. If you have a senior, please sign up to help move the sets into the work site, and then later to help design, and finally to move the sets back. The good news is that after all the prep, you get the night of Grad Night itself off to entertain your visiting family.

Howeverrrrr, we would love your help on the night of the event, if you can make it!

Junior Parents

Parents of juniors traditionally take shifts on Grad Night itself. These 3-4 hour shifts include staffing different activities, helping with food, working security or check-in or check-out, and more.

Here's how the “pay-it-forward” tradition works for Grad Night shifts:

JUNIOR PARENTS take the first shifts from 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM and/or help take down/clean up after, so they know where everything is for next year.
JUNIOR PARENTS are also encouraged to dip a toe in planning and building, so that they know how everything works for the following year, when Grad Night falls to them to plan.

Freshman & Sophomore Parents

Parents of freshmen and sophomores traditionally take shifts on Grad Night itself. These 3-4 hour shifts include staffing different activities, helping with food, working security or check-in or check-out, and more.

Here's how the “pay-it-forward” tradition works for Grad Night shifts:

FRESHMAN PARENTS stay up the latest. They traditionally take the shifts from 1:30 AM until the end, 5:00 AM.
SOPHOMORE PARENTS traditionally take the shifts from 10:30 PM until 2:00 AM.

That’s how you work your way through the rotation, knowing that when it’s your turn to be a “graduating parent,” your child can enjoy an elaborate and safe celebration while you tend to your out-of-town graduation guests. But that’s the tradition–it’s just a suggestion, and we’ll take any help we can get!

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