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When fellow students saw Wyatt Burns and Bekah Mecham at prom in April, they had to do a double take. “Why is it so shiny?” classmates asked Burns about his tux. Answer: His tux was made of Duck Tape as was Mecham’s prom dress. Burns and Mecham entered the Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest, where contestants are required to create their prom attire out of Duck Tape and then wear their creations to prom. Mountain Bike Tire WobbleThis week they were named Top 10 finalists, earning them $500 a piece and $500 for American Fork High School. Discount Tire TuitionNow they are hoping to get the grand prize, a $10,000 scholarship for each of them and $5,000 for their school — but they need votes.Iron Cross Kennels Puppies For Sale

Even making it to the Top 10 wasn’t something these juniors thought was possible when Mecham pitched the idea to Burns after seeing the contest on Pinterest. “We wanted to keep it really quiet because if we failed we didn’t want it to be a big deal,” Burns said. “The few who knew were super excited about it and wanted to help out.” Regardless of their doubts and lack of designing experience on both of their parts, they decided to go for it, relying on their art backgrounds — the two were friends from their AP art class — to help them succeed. “We looked up some past winners, saw what they did and looked online at some normal prom dresses and tuxes, sketched out some ideas and went with the ones we liked the best,” Burns said. They came up with a design that was “simple” and “timeless,” often retreating to the American Fork Canyon for inspiration — a place both Burns and Mecham love. “The overall goal was to not make something that was Halloween costume-like, but to make it something that someone would actually want to wear to prom,” Mecham said.

“There weren’t a whole lot of rules, but one of them was wearing them to prom. It’s a Duck Tape dress and tux, so wearing it you feel like a tin man and a Barbie. It was so sticky and hot, so we were only in it for part of prom.” —Wyatt Burns, American Fork High junior In the end, the pair created a dress, corsage, heels and hair flowers for Mecham and a suit, vest, pants, boutonnière, belt, bow tie and shoes for Burns. They sewed parts of their outfits as well as used tape, glue, spray adhesives and even nail polish to hold the clothes together. In the end, it took 15 rolls of Duck Tape, 175 hours of work and about $50 to make their prom attire. “There weren’t a whole lot of rules, but one of them was wearing them to prom,” Burns said. “It’s a Duck Tape dress and tux, so wearing it you feel like a tin man and a Barbie. It was so sticky and hot, so we were only in it for part of prom.” Burns and Mecham’s design was unique in two ways: the design was something you would find in a store and, out of the Top 10 dresses, Mecham’s was the only modest dress.

“I feel like if you are going to make a Duck Tape prom it should look like something you would actually wear to prom, not over the top,” Burns said. Although adding shoulders and sleeves ended up being the most difficult part for Mecham, she was adamant about keeping the dress modest and sticking to her LDS values. “It would have been a lot easier to make it without sleeves, but we definitely wanted it modest,” Mecham said. Now that Burns and Mecham have made it through the preliminary round (there were more than 90 submissions), they are hoping to earn scholarships to reach their collegiate dreams as well as help out American Fork High School in the process. “I really want to win because I just see this as a great opportunity to take our art skills and take a risk,” Mecham said. “We used this as one of our art projects for a risk project and also to win some scholarship money to go to an art school. We would love to be noticed by some sort of art school and to have the money to get in.