The Newell-Grissom Building will be filled with echo’s of stomping feet, clapping hands and cheering crowds this Friday at 7 p.m. during Mississippi State University’s National Pan-Hellenic Council’s annual Homecoming step show. 
NPHC President, La’Fanique Reed, a pre-law senior currently majoring in mathematics and member of the Nu Beta chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, said the NPHC has been putting on the competition for at least 15 years. 
Reed said the show is a competition between nine different organizations within MSU’s NPHC. The various fraternities and sororities within the National Pan-Hellenic council will each send a step team down to the floor Oct. 16 to perform a 12-minute step routine. All nine of the routines will be judged and a first and second place winners will be established that night.
Mikaela Gold, senior biological sciences major and member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, said she is looking forward to this Friday’s show.
Gold said last year’s winners included the Kappa Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, with her own team taking second. Gold said she expects Delta Sigma Theta, along with everyone else, to perform well this year. 
“After everyone performs, we’ll know in about 20 minutes who won,” Gold said. “Its pretty intense, everyone works really hard. Great time to show off some really good steps.”
Jolisa Moore,  senior educational psychology major, stood in the Colvard Student Union Monday evening promoting a fundraiser for her sorority. Moore said she is not a member of her organization’s step team this year, but she and many others are heavily involved in the process both during step practices and the setup and execution of the show itself.  
Moore said each step team comes up with a theme the routine follows, and most are kept a secret until the night of the performance. The fraternities’ and sororities’ routines are all competing together, Moore said, and that provides a challenge.
“Its a little harder going up against the frats and not just the sororities,” Moore said. “The boys have a lot of energy they bring. They really go all out.”