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Charlotte Motor Speedway is going to host drive-in and drive-thru graduations for students at Cabarrus County high schools in June.

 The speedway is partnering with Cabarrus County Schools and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to give high school seniors this first-of-its-kind commencement for the state. With the national pandemic, high school seniors have been unsure of how they would be able to celebrate this milestone.

Students from all 10 Cabarrus County high schools, representing more than 2,300 graduates in the 2020 senior class, will take part in individual ceremonies over a two-day period of June 12-13.

To comply with recommended social distancing practices, each graduate and his or her immediate family will be invited to enter the speedway infield and park in front of the 16,000-square-foot Speedway TV, where a commencement address will be broadcast drive-in movie style. Families  will be limited to one car per graduate and required to remain in the vehicle along with the student. Following the graduation message, cars will be directed onto the track for a commencement processional to the start/finish line, where each graduate will receive his or her diploma, live on Speedway TV.

The graduates and families  will remain in their cars and proceed on the race track through Turns 1 and 2 before exiting the speedway along the backstretch.

 

The Cabarrus County Schools graduation schedule is as follows:

Cabarrus-Kannapolis Early College High School 8:00 a.m. Friday, June 12, 2020

Performance Learning Center 8:45 a.m. Friday, June 12, 2020

Cabarrus Early College of Technology 10:00 a.m. Friday, June 12, 2020

Central Cabarrus High School 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 12, 2020

Cox Mill High School 4:00 p.m. Friday, June 12, 2020

Hickory Ridge High School 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 12, 2020

Jay M. Robinson High School 9:00 a.m. Saturday, June 13, 2020

Mount Pleasant High School 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13, 2020

Northwest Cabarrus High School 4:00 p.m. Saturday, June 13, 2020

Concord High School 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13, 2020

 

For further graduation details, Parents and students are advised to visit www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us/cabcograds20