Cal Poly Universities’ 2025 Rose Parade float, “Nessie’s Lakeside Laughs,” captures “The Best Day Ever” as the legendary Loch Ness Monster emerges to join a lakeside celebration with new friends. An estimated 37,000 flowers and natural materials are used on this float. Nessie’s body is textured with green pistachio shells and highlighted by pink carnations and roses. At the float’s front, an eager Scottish terrier wags its tail in a rowboat, followed by the beginnings of Nessie’s tail playfully
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Happy New Year! Did you watch the Rose Parade and see our float make its debut on Colorado Blvd. this morning? 🌹 The 2025 entry, “Nessie’s Lakeside Laughs,” marked the 76th Cal Poly Rose Float that students from Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly SLO have designed and built since the two campuses began collaborating in 1949. We won the “Leishman Public Spirit Award" for the most outstanding floral presentation from a non-commercial entry - a worthy award for our beautiful #LearnByDoing float! 🦕🏆 Re
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Cal Poly universities’ “Nessie’s Lakeside Laughs” float, depicting Scotland’s most camera-averse underwater mystic on its best day, received the Leishman Public Spirit Award at the 136th Rose Parade 🌹 “We got the Leishman award for most outstanding floral presentation from a non-commercial entry,” said Collin Marfia, the Cal Poly Rose Float president minutes after the awards were announced. “We’re just ecstatic! This is a floral award, and the last time we also won it was 2016. | California Pol
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#Throwback to our 2025 Cal Poly Rose Float🌹 Check out this behind-the-scenes look at the only student-built float in the Rose Parade and learn how the team becomes a family as they balance the pressure of a nationally televised event with the joy of designing, constructing, and decorating the float. ⬇️ | Cal Poly Pomona
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