Graduation Ceremonies Begin for More Than 8,000 Students
May 26, 2010 - Ceremonies will be held beginning this week for more than 8,000 students who will graduate from Wake County Public School System high schools this year.The Wake Early College of Health and Sciences holds the first of the ceremonies Friday night. This will be the first graduating class from the small, hybrid school.
9 WCPSS graduation ceremonies on Thursday, June 10 in downtown Raleigh |
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Southeast Raleigh High holds its ceremonies Saturday night.
Seventeen high schools will hold graduation ceremonies at either the Raleigh Convention Center or Memorial Auditorium in the Progress Energy Center with most scheduled between Wednesday, June 9 and Friday, June 11.
At the Raleigh Convention Center, graduation ceremonies will be held at 8 a.m., 12 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Wednesday through Friday, June 9-11. At Memorial Auditorium, graduation ceremonies will be held at 9:30 am, 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 pm on Thursday, June 10 and 9:30 am and 1:30 pm on Friday, June 11.
There will be nine ceremonies on Thursday, June 10 with four at the Raleigh Convention Center, three at Memorial Auditorium, one at Broughton High and one at Phillips High. All of these events should draw large crowds of family members who have tickets to see students graduate.
The ceremonies will have an impact on parking and traffic in downtown Raleigh. Persons attending the ceremonies should give themselves plenty of time to get to parking and then to the ceremony.
School administrators and students have practiced the events and have scheduled them to provide proper time to recognize students and stay on schedule for the next ceremony.
Several schools will hold ceremonies at other locations. Broughton High will continue its tradition of holding graduation in the school’s Holiday Gymnasium. It’s planned for 10 am, Thursday, June 10. Phillips will hold its ceremony in Meymandi Auditorium in the Progress Energy Center at 11 am on Thursday, June 10.
Guidelines for the general public used in recent years will remain in effect. No one without an admission ticket will be admitted to a graduation ceremony. No flowers in glass vases or other glass items, signs, packages, noise makers, or balloons will be permitted. Handicapped attendees may be accompanied by only one person in the designated handicapped seating areas. WCPSS Security and Raleigh Police officers will be on hand for the commencement exercises.
You can find the full graduation schedule online at http://www.wcpss.net/graduation-2010/
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