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Cal Poly Universities’ Rose Float Wins for Outstanding Artistic Design

Posted on January 1, 2020

Rose Float Aquatic Aspirations
The Cal Poly Universities’ Rose Parade float, Aquatic Aspirations.

Cal Poly Universities’ “Aquatic Aspirations” float debuted its colorful underwater scene at the 2020 Rose Parade on Jan. 1 and captured the Director Trophy for the most outstanding artistic design and use of floral and non-floral materials.

Cal Poly Universities' team leadsThe Director Trophy is the 60th award for the student team from Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, who come together annually to build and design the Rose Parade float. The 2020 float is 72nd consecutive entry from the two campuses of the California State University.

  • The float’s jellyfish are covered in blue statice, red bougainvillea, and layered, sliced citrus for a scalloped iridescent look. Longer tentacles are covered in dried strawflower with additional fine tentacles made of orchid arrangements.
  • The three sea turtles – Rafael (a ninja turtle), Koopa (a character from Mario Kart) and Crush (from “Finding Nemo”) – are covered in green roses, green button mums, dried French lentils and split peas, with lima beans, walnut shells and almond shells for accents. The eyes were created with seaweed with highlights of lunaria. The belly of the middle turtle is covered in yellow millet.
  • An exploring submarine is covered in red lentils, white cushion mums, silver leaf, blue statice, seaweed, yellow strawflower and lunaria.
  • The sunken ship, Sea Star, is covered in ground coffee with mushroom barnacles, which was a last-minute addition during Deco Week. The gold is crushed popcorn kernels.
  • For the rough, sandy texture of the sea floor, students used white corn kernels, popcorn kernels, walnut shells, almond shells, white corn meal, and golden and brown flax seed.

Turtle and fish on Rose FloatThe team made a last-minute adjustment to the jellyfish decorations, which were to be covered entirely with flowers. When students ran out of flowers, they used sliced grapefruit and oranges to extend jellyfish dome down toward the tentacles.

“I’m most proud of how we used a lot of this produce and the tropical elements on this float,” said Heather Hanson, Rose Float director for Cal Poly Pomona. “The produce gives us a unique look. We have everything from bitter melons to kumquats have sushi grade seaweed on here.”

Approximately 30,000 flowers cover “Aquatic Aspirations,” among them thousands of roses, Gerbera and irises along with protea, halconia, honeycomb ginger and more. Bitter melon, bright kiwano melon and succulents provide additional accents. The float earned the California Grown Certification, which requires 85 percent of cut flowers and greens from the Golden State.

 

Our 2020 @CPRoseFloat “Aquatic Aspirations” is on the @RoseParade route!

This year’s float is the winner of the Director Award for most outstanding artistic design and use of floral and non-floral materials! Congrats to our hard-working student team! #LearnByDoing 🌹 #WeAreCPP pic.twitter.com/kpdp8CGpm9

— Cal Poly Pomona (@calpolypomona) January 1, 2020

Learn more about the Cal Poly Universities’ Rose Float program, including the construction of a new Rose Float lab in 2020, on PolyCentric.

Posted in News | Tags Aquatic Aspirations Float, Cal Poly Universities Rose Float, Director's Trophy, most outstanding artistic design and use of floral and non-floral materials., rose parade

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