Speyer Class of 2026 Graduation!

On June 9, we celebrated the final moment in a Speyer journey: graduation. We witnessed what we could call their final “culminating event” take place, as our 32 graduates — surrounded by family and friends and Speyer teachers and staff — celebrated their remarkable time at Speyer.

During the ceremony, Adil K., one of the student speakers, reflected on this moment:

One of the many things that Speyer can be seen as is a doorway. It’s the gateway that we each walked through to get to where we are today. And the best part is that it isn’t simply something that we all did separately. We walked through it together, picking up and supporting each other along the way. We watched each other slip and stumble, and I won’t say that there were never times where we judged each other for it, but there were definitely many more times in which we lent an arm to each other…

Every single person in this room right now has supported our success, and on behalf of the Class of 2026, we promise that we will make you all proud, and change the world, because that’s what we’re capable of. The ability to make the world a better place is exactly what Speyer has entrusted and built within us.

They are pictured above, on the steps of Speyer, in front of the doorway they walked through countless times. Next year, they will walk through new doorways as they continue on to their next journey. And as the years go on, they will walk through doorway after doorway…always carrying what Speyer built within them.

All of us at Speyer send our loving congratulations to each and every graduate of the Class of 2026! We are so proud of you…once a Dragon, always a Dragon!