Senator wants your graduation speech

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is inviting high school seniors to deliver the graduation speech they wish they could have given at an in-person commencement ceremony.

Wednesday, Kaine’s office announced the Virginia senator has launched the “Everybody’s the Graduation Speaker” video contest.

With many in-person graduations likely to be postponed or canceled due to the coronavirus, Kaine is encouraging Virginia’s graduating high school seniors to submit a video of an original speech they would like to give at graduation. Kaine will select speeches to feature on his Facebook page and website during May and June to celebrate the graduates.

Kaine is encouraging students to film videos of speeches that are 10 minutes or less and submit them to gradspeech@kaine.senate.gov by May 15.