Community invited to help celebrate Graduation Day

Graduation Day for this year’s Sundance seniors will be taking place this Sunday, May 17 at 4 p.m. and the whole community will have the chance to tune in to KYDT 103.1 or head to the Sundance High School Facebook page to watch or listen live as graduates receive their honors.

The community is also encouraged to line the streets following the ceremony to take part in the graduation parade.

The ceremony itself is reserved for students and their families. The stage will be set up in the parking lot and each family will have two designated parking spots, in which they may park a vehicle that takes up one parking space.

As each family enters the parking lot, they will be handed a program. Parents and graduates in their car will be able to tune in to KYDT to hear the valedictorian, salutatorian, class president and Principal Jim O’Connor give their speeches.

Following the speeches, graduates will be announced and will be asked to leave the car to walk across the state and receive their diploma from a member of the Crook County School District Board of Trustees, Principal O’Connor and Superintendent Mark Broderson. Parents may temporarily leave the car to take a picture of their child receiving a diploma.

Following the ceremony, graduates will drive through town and have been invited to decorate their vehicles for the occasion.

The high school is asking the community to line the streets following social distancing guidelines.

The parade will travel past the hospital, down Main Street to the bank, to the Turf and then along Cleveland Ave. back to the school.

Sundance High School will be providing a photographer for free pictures for each family.