Congratulate, Commemorate Your Graduate on Patch

Hundreds of Wauwatosa's best and brightest will take the big step into adulthood Saturday as East and West high schools celebrate their commencements.

And you can help us create a virtual senior yearbook and graduation photo gallery commemorating their big day right here on Wauwatosa Patch.

Post your congratulatory message to your graduate in the comments, or in captions to graduation photos that you can add to this gallery yourself.

We'd like to see as many of Wauwatosa's special young people as possible. So if the response is good – and we hope it will be – we will leave this gallery prominently featured well into next week, and it will remain on Patch forever.

You can share the link or recommend it to friends and family near and far, and of course show your pride and joy to the whole community by posting here on Patch.

You don't even have to have a graduate of your own to participate. If you're a member of this community, these are your kids, too. Let them know how proud you are of them.

You don't even have to wait – you can put up photos and congratulations starting right now, then add more from the commencement ceremony. And you can continue after the fact with photos from graduation parties and the like.

You do have to be signed on to Patch to post photos. Signing up is easy – just look for the "sign up" button at the upper right of this page – and you will not receive any unwanted email by doing so (and Patch does not sell or otherwise provide its users' contact information with anyone).

You can also sign onto Wauwatosa Patch with Facebook.

Once you are signed on, you will see a button below the photo gallery with a camera icon and the message "Upload photos and videos." Just click and follow the easy steps.

ceremony starts at 11 a.m. Saturday at the school, and if for some reason you can't make it, it will be live-streamed in the internet at this link: http://wauwatosaschooldistrict181.eduvision.tv/SchoolLiveSchedules.aspx.

Live streaming will begin at 11 a.m. To view it, click on the link, then click the Watch Now button. Clicking the Watch Now button will stream the graduation ceremony with a 30-second delay.

ceremony begins at 1 p.m. at the school. While it is not being live-streamed, it is being filmed and you can order a 2012 Graduation DVD through the form found here.