It is the power of education, the power to try and fail and then to try again, that will allow us to achieve whatever our personal ‘over the moon’ is.”
“As college students, we are just taking our first steps in our various careers and industries. The float building process is filled with so many unexpected challenges that it gives college students like us opportunities to hone our problem-solving and leadership abilities far beyond what many classrooms offer. “We work hard and may fall, but we always get back up and reach for the stars. “This float embodies our Rose Float family,” Nares said. The project is a labor of love, added Christopher Nares, president of the Cal Poly Pomona team. “Just like our cows building their jet packs, it will take building, making mistakes, un-building, and building again for us to make this float look how it looks on parade day,” said Avi McManus, vice president of the San Luis Obispo team. “Much like how these cows are prototyping different jet packs for their big jump, we have been prototyping different iterations of this float before settling on this final design.”Įach year, the student float builders undergo a trial-and-error process to perfect the animation challenges, not unlike overcoming setbacks in the Learn by Doing education, the computer engineering senior added. “Our team has been working on and refining this design for two years now, and I think all that hard work has really paid off,” said Regina Chapuis, president of the Cal Poly team in San Luis Obispo. The float also depicts numerous other stages of building: A brown cow tests one of the jet packs, while another wearing glasses and an apron is building a jet pack. All year, while the bovine team has perfected its jet-pack technology, Cal Poly Rose Float students have been building the very frame to hoist the 600-pound cow into the air.
In the Cal Poly take on the six-line rhyme, three cows, along with their colleagues - the cat, a little dog, the dish and the spoon - are seen working to achieve the celebrated moo-n jump.Īccording to the teams of 20 students from each university, the cows also represent the float-building process. As the float travels the 5.5-mile-long parade route, the audience will see a cow jumping over a 15-foot moon, held aloft by a jet pack made of metal milk cans and other farm materials. Stargrazers mixes the whimsy of the nursery rhyme with the hardworking atmosphere of a college campus. Achieve.” The theme of the 133rd Rose Parade celebrates education’s ability to open doors, open minds and change lives. The float aims to exemplify the 2022 theme of “Dream. Called Stargrazers, the float brings to life a scene from the classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle, Diddle,” except with an engineering twist that only two polytechnic schools with a seven-decade connection to the Rose Parade could create. When the parade returns on New Year’s Day after a one-year pandemic-related hiatus, the only student-built parade float will once again roll down Pasadena’s Colorado Boulevard. Hey, diddle, diddle, the Cal Poly universities’ 2022 Tournament of Roses® Parade float features a cat and a fiddle - but the cow jumping over the moon will be wearing a jet pack.
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