Somerset Island Prep charter high school held its seventh annual water-based graduation on May 22 off Ocean Key Resort.
Wearing life jackets under their graduation gowns, students throttled personal watercraft into their future and picked up their scrolls from Principal Tom Rompella. A proper ceremony with class speakers and awards also took place at the resort’s Sunset Pier.
The graduation tradition started during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the Class of 2020 was seeking a safe and socially distant graduation ceremony.
And now, seven years later, good luck telling any subsequent classes they have to sit in an auditorium — and stay dry.See all Florida Keys graduates and their senior portraits in the Keys Weekly’s annual Graduation Guide at keysweekly.com.
