And now this message from the commencement attire
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Gina Warren, 18, a graduating senior at at Teays Valley High School in Ashville, Ohio, has proven that she's fully ready to take on the world.
You ready, world?
Gina, like many seniors, has decorated the cap she'll wear at commencement.
She made a QR code, then blew it up and pasted it to her cap.
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She says she got the idea from students who graduated last year from a high school in Florida where a mass shooting occurred. They painted their caps orange in honor of their dead classmates.
“Gina is very well-liked, very outgoing,” one of her teachers told the Washington Post. “She always kind of stands up for the little guy and marches to the beat of her own drummer.”
“I just want to let everybody know that we should just keep fighting,” Warren said. “I definitely am going to keep fighting.”
Appropriately, she'll study communications at the University of Cincinnati.