By Christy Tidwell

For our third annual STS Halloween costume contest, we got some great entries! It’s always fun to see how creative South Dakota Mines students can be, and this year was no exception. We were also very pleased to get some entries from faculty and staff this year, too!

Our team of judges loved all of the entries and – based on the prizes we had available to give – selected winners in a variety of categories: Best Original Costume, Best Media Character Costume, Best Simple-But-Effective Costume, Best Group Costume, Best School Spirit, and Best Faculty/Staff Costume.

We’re looking forward to seeing more creative, fun, and spooky costumes next Halloween!

Best Original Costume: Pari Bailey.
She describes her costume as “my pathfinder character, Minduléa Ravensong, a bard/wizard multiclass!”

Best Media Character Costume: Madi Einck
Vi from Arcane: League of Legends, specifically her pit fighter variant in season 2 of the show

Best Simple-But-Effective Costume: Laura Hubbs
Wirt from Over the Garden Wall

Best Group Costume: Parker Smith, Megan Stefanick, Lyndsie Stearns, and Dakota Remington
Powerpuff Girls and Professor Utonium

Best School Spirit: Stephen Gebes
Grubby

Best Faculty/Staff Costume: Andrea Horan and Arana Peters
The Grady Twins from The Shining

Thanks to everyone who participated! You can also check out last year’s winners in this post.