{"id":13753,"date":"2026-01-29T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-districts-engineering-students-build-float-for-snowdown-parade\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:40:59","slug":"mancos-school-districts-engineering-students-build-float-for-snowdown-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-districts-engineering-students-build-float-for-snowdown-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos school district\u2019s engineering students build float for Snowdown parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1bde7602-e2ae-56e2-97d8-b1594807d782&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1281\" alt=\"The Durango Kids float covered Main Avenue with its foam cannon during the Snowdown Light Parade on Friday in downtown Durango. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Durango Kids float covered Main Avenue with its foam cannon during the Snowdown Light Parade on Friday in downtown Durango. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mancos school district engineering students have designed and built a parade float depicting the town\u2019s history for the Durango Snowdown Light Parade.<\/p>\n<p>The float, created with teacher Richard Krueger as part of a project\u2011based learning initiative this semester, will participate in the annual parade on Main Avenue in Durango on Friday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The 47th annual Snowdown festival runs from Jan. 23 to Sunday, Feb. 1. This year\u2019s theme, \u201cUniquely Colorado \u2013 Then and Wow,\u201d was chosen to celebrate 150 years of Colorado\u2019s statehood. This year\u2019s floats, costumes and activities are designed to highlight Colorado\u2019s history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos\u2019 float starts with a covered wagon, reflecting the town\u2019s motto, \u201cWhere the West Still Lives.\u201d It continues through other elements of Mancos and local history, including the Ancestral Pueblo people associated with Mesa Verde, Escalante settlers who introduced mining, a burro used for transporting mining supplies and cattle for Mancos\u2019 rich agricultural history, the district said in an email announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The design concludes with a representation of today, featuring the Mancos school district students who built the float and who attend the oldest continuously operating school in Colorado. The students also engineered custom lighting and music systems to bring the float to life.<\/p>\n<p>A practice run for the float is scheduled for Thursday at 6:30 p.m., starting on Beech Street in Mancos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floats, costumes and activities are designed to highlight Colorado\u2019s culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,28,83,392,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-school-district-re-6","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19143,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions\/19143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}