Bachelor of nursing graduates (from left) Olivia Austen (24), Nicole Dunford (21), Shimran Maharaj (22), Grace Wratt (22) and Shannon Solomon (29) pose for photos.

Despite this week’s Dunedin Town Hall graduation ceremonies being cancelled because of Covid-19 restrictions, Otago Polytechnic graduands celebrated throughout the city on Saturday.

Jennifer Kang (25), of New Plymouth, holds her bachelor of occupational therapy degree.
Otago Daily Times photographer Linda Robertson met some of the polytechnic’s newly minted success stories at the weekend.

Bachelor of nursing graduate Stacey Sanders (21) of Dunedin, shows her degree to her father Gary Sanders as her sister Karri (25), mother Louise and grandmother Daphne, all of Milton, look on.