via BlackDoctor:
Graduation is a special time for any high school senior. They work hard all four years to cross that stage and celebrate with friends and family all while having a diploma in hand.
“That day comes once in a lifetime,” said Cynthia Pettway, a Mobile, Alabama LeFlore High School graduate who even went to night classes, studied hard and was ready to graduate.
But for Pettway, she was unable to make that important walk across the stage. One week ago, Pettway was admitted to the hospital for an undisclosed illness and was told she wouldn’t be able to leave the hospital for three weeks. But she still longed to cross the stage to get her diploma with her classmates
“I couldn’t just sit down and lay in a bed and miss that because it only comes one time,” said Pettway.
Unable to walk across the stage for her graduation from LeFlore, Cynthia lost hope. That is, until her mother had this creative idea that her baby could still walk across the stage–well kind of.
Pettway’s mom had an idea where a “robot” of sorts would be able to have a two-way viewing system where her daughter could view and experience graduation virtually in real time.
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