Silver Knights shine in virtual ceremony 30 local high school seniors were recognized
There’s nothing ordinary about the young men and women nominated for the prestigious Silver Knight Awards, and neither was this year’s ceremony.
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted many events honoring the Class of 2020, and this year’s 62nd annual ceremony honoring hundreds of outstanding high school seniors in Miami-Dade and
Broward counties was no exception. The over-thetop ceremony traditionally held at the John S. and James L. Knight Center was synthesized into a 500-square-foot video studio at the Doral newsroom of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. A production company worked for three days to replicate the experience.
Thursday night’s big to-do was one of the more unique ceremonies held since the award was created in 1959 by then-Miami
Herald Publisher John S. Knight and is hosted annually by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald.
Though a physical audience wasn’t present, there was a live, virtual one: 700 nominees from 103 public, private and charter schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties were gathered live via four Zoom video conferences. The nominees for each of the 15 categories waited in virtual tiles for their names to be called. They waved to the camera, giddy with anticipation.