Proxy graduation – iPad dressed in cap and gown stands in for hospitalized girl at graduation
We have heard enough of proxies- proxy votes, proxy attendance, proxy companies and proxy wars. And now here is another proxy at a graduation ceremony. An Alabama girl, Cynthia Pettway was hospitalised just few days before her graduation ceremony, but she managed just graduated high school in an unexpected way — via an iPad dressed in a cap and gown.
She stood with her classmates through a remote video connection at the Leflore High School graduation this week. Thanks to the staff at USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital had the brilliant idea to take Pettway across the graduation stage virtually.
The hospital has a robot that utilizes iPads to transport patients wherever they want to go coordinated with the hospital to make Pettway’s graduation walk happen.
She was able to roll across the graduation stage as an iPad dressed in a cap and gown. Hospital staff taught Pettway how to use the device so she could roll herself across the stage. She was glad she had a way to celebrate her hard work in high school and make her family proud.
Cynthia Pettway was seen on the iPad screen wiping her eyes with a tissue as the robot crossed the stage.
Long live proxy.
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