Miley Cyrus to Celebrate New Year at a High School

By Lauren Charlip

12/31/2008 at 04:00 PM EST

Miley Cyrus will be ringing in the New Year in a venue she rarely sets foot in: a high school gym.

The Hannah Montana star will be performing live from the gymnasium of Beckman High School in Irvine, Calif., the prize from an MTV-sponsored contest held over the summer.

The audience will be a sea of pink. It was Beckman High senior Alison Kaprielian's hard work for the Pink Ribbon Club for breast-cancer awareness that clenched the prize for the school, E! News reports. Every audience member will wear pink for the cause.

"We are all so excited! We have been practicing all day," Allie Sanchez, a member of the Beckman High School dance team, who will be joining Cyrus onstage, tells E!

Cyrus showed up yesterday in Irvine, with her best friend Mandy Jiroux in tow. An MTV source revealed they surprised Kaprielian at her house and spent the day with her.

The Beckman High bash is open not only to students, but to Miley fans who scored free tickets on MTV's Web site.

The channel's New Year's Eve broadcast begins at 8 p.m. ET.