The list starts with the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and ends with last week's STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting in suburban Denver
A high school student is using her creativity to turn her graduation ceremony into a somber moment of reflection for those teenagers who missed the milestone in the last decade because they were victims of mass shootings.
Gina Warren, 18, of Ashville, Ohio, has decorated her graduation cap with a QR code that sends people who scan it with their phones to a list of students killed in US high schools. The list, compiled by Warren, starts with the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and ends with last week's STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting in suburban Denver. Warren's graduation cap has a QR code that sends people to a list of school shooting victims.
— Gina May 9, 2019 The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, although some accused her of using the graduation cap to"push an agenda," she said.But Warren said she wanted people to"look at the cap and see that there are far too many names and that this is a problem.""I encourage people to speak up and vote, I'm not going to tell anyone how to think or who to vote for," she said.
— Gina May 13, 2019 People are now asking Warren to provide a picture of the QR code so they can put it on their graduation caps. CNN's Amanda Jackson and Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report.
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