The countdown is on!

On New Year's Day, Pasadena's 135th Rose Parade®is happening.

Creating a parade float that works, technically, and is knock-everyone's-eyes-out spectacular, is the ultimate S.T.E.A.M. endeavor.

Science, technology, engineering, art and math all play a part in the "wow factor" you'll see on New Year's Day.

Pam Wiedenbeck is Vice President of Float Development for nonprofit La Canada Flintridge Tournament of Roses: one of six community organizations, known as "self-builts", that fund and create their own noncommercial floats, every year, and enter them in the Rose Parade®.

For 2024, LCFTRA is creating a float entitled "Flower Power", which is a 1960s band bus, on which a band, composed of flowers, plays a series of 1960s songs. With the construction and painting finished, the decorating with flowers begins, right after Christmas!

Currently, LCFTRA's website says all decorator shifts are filled. However, if you'd like to help, theremay be walk-up shift availability Here's the link to find out more!

AND--do you have a great idea for a float for the 2025 Rose Parade®? LCFTRA's "Float Design Competition" is on, right now!