What to expect the day of the ceremony

Checking in and picking up name cards

Upon arriving each student will be provided with a "name card," which contains your name and any information that will be read about you when you walk across the stage.
- Most students who registered ahead of time should have a pre-printed name card waiting for them.
- Students whose name cards are missing will be able to fill one out by hand at their check-in area, volunteers will be there to help.
Keep your name card with you. You will need to hand it to someone as you walk across the stage.
Please only pick up your own name card, as students picking up name cards for their friends can lead to confusion.

After picking up your reader cards, students will wait to process onto the floor of the Arena.
- Undergraduate students wait in the bleachers directly behind their check-in tables. The sections are labelled with the names of the various schools and colleges, and other than sitting with the rest of your school/college, undergraduates may sit in any order.
- Graduate students wait in the area near their check-in tables until called to line up by Marshals
Students will process onto the event seating area together, as directed by the Marshals.

Once seated on the Arena floor, please wait until you are directed by the Marshals to stand up and process across the stage.
Shortly before the stage professional photographers will take your portrait in front of a formal University banner.
When you approach the stage a volunteer will take your name card, and this is how the readers on the stage will know which name to call.
After walking across the stage, continue to follow the instructions of the Marshals, and sit back down until the end of the ceremony.

After you walk, please return to your seat and remain there until the end of the ceremony.
The ceremony is expected to end by TBA but may run longer or shorter.
Please remain through the full ceremony, even after you walk, out of respect for the remaining graduates.
The Marshals will cue you when the ceremony ends and it is time to leave the arena floor.

If, by some unforeseen circumstance you are late, please report to the area in which you were instructed to, and there will be a volunteer to lead you to a Marshal who will get you seated on the floor.
Late seating is not guaranteed, depending on where we are in the ceremony.