Peter Delong, director of sales and sponsorship for the MSU Alumni Association, said he has been involved in float building at Spartan Stadium since he started working with the association.

“I just kept doing it because it’s so much fun to see all the groups get together and work on floats for the parade,” Delong said.

Along with the floats, the parade also will feature the Spartan Marching Band, the MSU Alumni Marching Band, the MSU Dance Team, greek sororities and fraternities and more.

The Alumni Association supplied the base for the first 10 student organizations that signed up. The Young Alumni club was the 11th group, and brought its own base to make a float.

Building a Beaumont Tower and courtyard replica, MSU Tower Guard president Mariah Smith said the group is somewhat concerned about finishing on time, but excited overall to be taking part.

“It’s an exciting nervousness right now,” Smith said. “The parade is going to be a lot of fun ,all of our (executive board) is going to dress up as superheroes and we’re going to have some people dress up as Indiana (football players) and try to conquer it, and we’re going to be there to stop them.”

Jeff Parkinson, leader of the community team for the MSU Christian organization Cru, said he is excited to be a part of the float building preparation for the first time and has given a lot of thought to the float’s theme.

The group is creating a skyline that would appear in comic books and plans to include superhero symbols projected on the skyline to show the city is protected, Parkinson said.

“We’re going to relate it to Jesus being our superhero,” Parkinson said. “We want to create it to look like he’s saving East Lansing.”

Kiran Samra, chief of staff for ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, said the group is keeping its float design a secret but that it plans to incorporate the true definition of being a Spartan hero.

“As a student government organization, our main goal is to be that voice and we think this is another way to demonstrate that we want everyone to be a Spartan hero,” Samra said.

Now in her third year of float building for MSU, Samra said that even though multiple groups are working on floats for the parade, no one has a competitive spirit.

“Different organizations coming together and building floats here at Spartan Stadium builds a sense of community,” Samra said. “I really enjoy seeing all the floats going from the start to the end. It’s Homecoming time and everyone is coming together and rallying around beating Indiana.”