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2024 Baccalaureate Celebration

This event will also be livestreamed

Gates open at 9:00 a.m.

Event Details:

Saturday, June 15, 2024
10:00am - 11:00am PDT

Location

Frost Amphitheater
351 Lasuen St
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

This event is open to:

Graduating Students
Family, Friends, & Guests
General Public
Public Livestream
No tickets required

Baccalaureate (pronounced “bak-uh-lawr-ee-it”) at Stanford is a celebratory gathering for graduating seniors, graduate students, and professional students, as well as their families and friends. This gathering is part of Commencement weekend and is a bookend to the Opening Convocation held four years earlier.

Student Speaker Contest

The story of the Class of 2024 is singularly marked with social detriment during the formative experience that was our first-year transition from adolescence to independent college adulthood. If we may acknowledge the silver lining to this, however, it's that this dampened entrance has challenged us to confront the unexpected. This lesson in resilience and ambition resonates more profoundly than ever on the brink of graduation. We invite you to share these sentiments of Truth-seeking and self-development, your spiritual reflections on your Stanford story, and your future hopes as the Class of 2024 Baccalaureate speaker.

Contest Guidelines:

  • Contest is open to undergraduate members of the Class of 2024
  • Speech cannot exceed 600 words
  • Submit the final version of your speech. You will not be able to edit the speech after submission. 
  • Entries accepted now through Sunday, April 28, 2024, 11:59 pm Pacific time
  • No exceptions to the deadline
  • Attach your speech in Word format
  • $500 prize will be awarded to the winner

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