Turn you tassel again.

再次行撥穗禮。

I know my kids one day will be like...

我知道有一天我的小孩會對我說...

"Mom, you graduated during the pandemic?"

「媽媽，你是在傳染病大流行期間畢業的噢？」

"What did you do?"

「你們做了什麼？」

And so I just think that's going to be something that you're not going to forget.

所以我就覺得這個經驗我們永遠不會忘記。

[Japanese] We confer the master in business administration degree.

[日語] 我們授予你企業管理碩士學位。

As schools around the world are trying to figure out what to do about graduation during the coronavirus pandemic, some have moved ahead with robots and avatars.

正當世界各地的學校苦惱著新冠肺炎疫情疫情之下畢業典禮該如何是好時，有些學校已轉為使用機器人和虛擬化身。

Here's how they seized the opportunity and got creative.

以下是他們把握機會發揮創意的方式。

Ivan Campbell is a junior at the University of Georgia.

Ivan Campbell 是喬治亞大學的大三生。

I know that if my graduation were to suddenly not exist anymore that I would be really really hurt by that.

我知道假如我的畢業典禮突然間消失不見，我會非常、非常受傷。

Junior Ivan Campbell got creative.

大三生 Ivan Campbell 發揮了創意。

So he came up with the idea of holding a graduation ceremony in the video game Minecraft.

所以他想出了在電玩 Minecraft 中舉辦畢業典禮的主意。

It's where players can build 3D worlds with characters and experiences.

在這個電玩遊戲中，玩家可以建造包含各種角色及體驗的 3D 世界。

I think that to sort of physically be in a space with other people, even if it's not really physically.....

我認為實際上和他人共處於一個空間，就算不是真正實體上的...

I think that that brings a lot to the experience.

我認為那會帶來很好的體驗。

We have this really really big stadium called Sanford Stadium.

我們學校有一座非常非常大的體育館，叫做 Sanford 體育館。

It's huge.

超級巨大。

You know, it can hold 50,000 people or so.

那裡可以容納大約五萬人。

It's where we have our graduations.

我們都在那裡舉行畢業典禮。

He knew he couldn't build the entire stadium alone, and so Campbell teamed up with other students.

Campbell 知道自己無法獨自一人建造出這整座體育館，所以他就和其他學生合作。

We referenced a lot of our school schematics that they had laid out, and we also used Googlemaps, Google Streetview to get an idea of what the spacial dimensions need to look like within the game.

我們參考了很多學校以前畫的建築設計圖，我們也用了谷歌地圖的街景服務來了解遊戲中的空間尺寸應該看起來如何。

Campbell says there were lots of late nights with the team over the three weeks it took to build the stadium virtually.

Campbell 說在打造虛擬體育館的三個星期間，他們熬了好幾次夜。

And I've also become a little bit closer with a lot of the other people.

而我也和其他人變得更加親近。

It sort of brings us together as a community.

這把我們集中成一個群體。

Good job, Ivan.

Ivan 做得好！

Though the school is holding the official ceremony in October, the administration gave Campbell the blessing to move ahead.

雖然學校將在十月舉行正式的典禮，校方還是同意他們繼續進行。

So on the big day more than a dozen students got ready at home and showed up on the virtual campus.

所以在畢業的大日子當天，多位學生在家做好準備並且出現在虛擬校園中。

Hey, that's me!

嘿，那是我耶！

Astrophysics!

天體物理學系！

Girl go!

去吧！

Ah!

啊！

Hello!

哈囉！

Let's give a jump.

來跳一下吧！

Ha!

哈！

Oh, she gave me a jump.

噢，她對著我跳了一下！

You are part of history.

你們是歷史的一部份。

This is a year no one will ever forget.

沒有人會忘記這一年。

♪Let's go!♪

♪走吧！♪

Woo, you got to see the--

哇，你要去看...

Making you run boy!

讓你跑起來！

Oh, that's so good.

噢，超棒的！

So it really blew all my expectations out of the water.

這完全超乎了我的想像。

Class of 2020 is going to be very memorable.

2020 年畢業班將非常值得紀念。

I do not think we are going to be forgotten.

我認為我們不會被遺忘。

(Japanese) Congratulations.

(日語) 恭喜。

Some universities have not wanted to postpone or cancel ceremonies altogether.

有些大學不想要延期或是完全取消典禮。

So this school came up with the idea of using robots.

所以這所學校想出了運用機器人的方法。

Our BBT University is 100% online...

我們 BBT 大學百分之百線上...

Shugo Yanaka is a professor at the Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo.

谷中修吾是東京商業突破大學的教授。

Our university have the graduation ceremony once a year.

我們大學每年舉辦一次畢業典禮。

It's in person.

是需親自到場的。

But this time the coronavirus situation, students couldn't come together.

但這次新冠病毒疫情導致學生不能聚在一起。

This truly online graduation ceremony took place with the professor actually present at the venue.

這個全線上的畢業典禮舉行時，教授真的在場頒獎。

Just watching video is kind of boring, but the avatars a physical presence and making it seems like human were actually there.

只看影片有點無趣，但是其他三個學生也有實體存在的替身，讓典禮看起來就好像人們真的有參加。

About a 100 graduates attended the virtual ceremony via video conference.

大約 100 位畢業生透過視訊會議參加了虛擬典禮。

Four of them were chosen to represent the class and have their faces screened onto the robot's heads.

其中四位畢業生被選為班級代表，他們的臉被播映在機器人的頭上。

I want to thank my teachers for guiding us.

我想要感謝我的老師們引領我們。

I never thought I could have graduated this way.

我從來沒想過我會這樣子畢業。

Yanaka said he's gotten phone calls from other schools about tips for holding a graduation with robots.

谷中說他接到了其他學校的來電，詢問舉辦機器人畢業典禮的建議。

We are facing with difficult situation.

我們正面臨著艱困的情況。

But I think it's a good opportunity for us to discover the possibilities around us.

但我認為這是一個發掘周遭可能性的好機會。

Campbell has noticed other students holding their own graduation ceremonies in Minecraft.

Campbell 發現其他學生也 Minecraft 上舉辦自己的畢業典禮。

So many people in the comments supported us.

非常多人都留言支持我們。

It's really really nice to have people getting together in a time when people are apart.

在這個人人分隔多地的時機，能夠聚一聚真的非常棒。

♪To Georgia♪

♪敬喬治亞♪

It's kind of a joke right?

這是個笑話，對吧？

We're graduating...

我們要畢業了...

Yay '20.

耶 2020！

That's right, baby!

就是那樣沒錯！