Sixth graders in the Philippines held a cyber graduations using remote-controlled robots — see how they did it

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• A public school in the Philippines held a cyber graduation ceremony for sixth graders.
• Remote-controlled robots wearing caps and gowns received diplomas with screens displaying students' faces on top.
• Graduates and their families watched through a Facebook livestream.
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Graduates of the Senator Renato Compañero Cayetano Memorial Science and Technology High school will probably remember their sixth-grade graduation forever. On May 29, the school held a socially distant graduation ceremony for sixth-grade students using four robots, while families watch through a Facebook livestream. 

As COVID-19 has spread around the world and closed schools and offices, people have found increasingly creative ways to connect using virtual tools.

A group of eight elementary school students held a virtual graduation ceremony in the popular game "Minecraft." Students at the University of Pennsylvania were inspired by that ceremony, and recreated their entire campus in "Minecraft," even holding a relay event in the virtual world.

BBT University in Japan took a similar approach to this school outside of Manila, using "Newme" robots and Zoom to let students experience a version of graduating. 

Here's how the sixth graders did it.

The graduation audience was empty, all students and family watched from their homes.

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A few teachers and administrators were there to take photos and make sure everything went smoothly.

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Prerecorded videos of each student played on tablets connected to the robots.

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