The pinning ceremony is one of the most important traditions in nursing education, dating back to the Florence Nightengale School of Nursing in London and in wide use in the US since the early 1900s. The pinning ceremony for RIC School of Nursing graduates was postponed twice this year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a third attempt proved to be the charm! • After a month of planning, the School of Nursing along with the Student Nursing Association organized a drive-through pinning ceremony in the Fogarty Science parking lot. Faculty members wore gloves and masks as they interacted with the nursing grads, who were accompanied by proud parents, children and others inside their cars. • Gabrielle Pommenville and Vanessa Mansi, two RIC seniors who are members of ricstudentnurse, planned the drive-through affair with assistance from faculty. “It’s obviously disappointing to not have a traditional pinning ceremony, but I think this setting was still a good way to recognize the grads fo...