Senior Events

Our Annual Senior Celebration Day will be held on Wednesday, May 1st at VPM for the Class of 2024. Students will participate in a variety of activities during their English class. Activities include cap and gown pick-up, photo booth, pennant designs, final senior survey, and more! Students that do not have an English class or attend alternative programming outside of the building are also welcome to attend on that day. The event will run the entire school day in the brand new Atrium. 

If you would like to help us celebrate on this day, we would welcome donations of individually wrapped prepackaged food items.  Examples include granola bars and snack size bags of crackers/chips/pretzels/cookies. These items can be dropped off the week of 4/22 in the Welcome Center at VPM or directly shipped to VPM (201 S. Gammon Rd, Madison WI 53717; ℅ Student Services) Thanks so much for your help!

The Honors Convocation is an event that serves two main purposes. The first is to celebrate our seniors receiving scholarships awarded through Memorial High School. Memorial is fortunate that a variety of state and local organizations give annual financial scholarship awards to graduating seniors. Each agency or organization sets the criteria to be met. The criteria varies widely but most often relates to grade point average, service to school or community, leadership, character, participation in extracurricular activities, or some combination of the above. The Memorial Scholarship Committee uses the set criteria to determine which students will receive each scholarship.

The other main purpose is to award honor cords to those seniors graduating with Honors or High Honors. Graduating seniors can attain this status if their seventh semester cumulative grade point average is 3.5-3.79 for Honors or 3.8-4.0 for High Honors. Transfer students are eligible only if letter grades (A-B-C-D-F scale) were posted in each year of high school, grade nine through semester one of grade twelve. Seniors graduating with Honor or High Honors will wear gold cords during the graduation ceremony. Distinctions between Honors and High Honors will be listed in the graduation program and at the Honors Convocation.

**Seniors earning scholarships or honor cords will receive invitations to the Honors Convocation in May.

The Senior Party is scheduled for Saturday, June 1st from 9:00 PM - Midnight. This is a celebration for the entire Memorial Senior Class, and plans are already in the works for this HUGE event! If you are interested in helping out, the following are some things you can do right now: 

• Make a monetary contribution for the event via Venmo @VPM-PTSO and write a note that says '24 SENIOR PARTY.
• Donate an item from the Amazon Wishlist. Make sure to have any items delivered to Katie Spelsberg, which is the default address attached to the list.
• Do you have a business that is willing to donate a gift? Contact us about it! We are trying to send our seniors into the world with supplies they will need or items just for fun!

A Sign-Up Genius with volunteer opportunities will be emailed the first week of May. If you have any questions about the party, please email memorialseniorparty@gmail.com.

Graduation Rehearsal is scheduled for Wednesday, June 5th at 12:00pm in the Main Gym. Seniors should arrive on time, as we will begin immediately with a group picture of the entire class. Following the class picture, we will walk through everything that happens on graduation day. Rehearsal should take no more than 30 minutes.

The 8th Annual Senior Walk will take place on Wednesday, June 5th.  Do not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to return to your elementary school and inspire future Spartans.  Buses are scheduled to pick students up at Memorial immediately following our REQUIRED graduation rehearsal, approximately 12:30pm.

The 2024 Senior Class Picnic is scheduled to take place on Friday, May 31st at Governor Dodge State Park. Buses leave Memorial PROMPTLY at 8:30am and return to school by 3:30pm. **STUDENT CARS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED AT THE PARK!

STUDENTS MAY BRING: Frisbees, board games, cards, swimsuits & towels, your own Bluetooth speakers, cameras, suntan lotion, sunglasses, and hats (Students are responsible for their own belongings.)

FOOD ITEMS MAY INCLUDE: Factory sealed juice, soda, and water. Students may also bring a bag of chips, cookies, or other shareable snack for the snack table. (These items will be collected before boarding the buses.) STUDENTS MAY NOT BRING COOLERS!

LUNCH will be provided.

LIFEGUARDS will be on duty for your safety, and a nurse will be staffed for incidentals.

Any senior not attending the picnic must attend regular classes.