It was a landmark moment at Nile Garden Elementary School last Wednesday.

For the first time, the eighth-grade class celebrated its promotion exercises in the spacious new gym. The many families, friends and special guests in attendance enjoyed the special event seated in the air-conditioned setting as temperatures heated up outdoors during the mid-morning.

Nile Garden Principal Deborah Noceti-Ward and Vice Principal Katie Francis had the honors of distributing the certificates of promotion and awards to some 68 students who made up the Class of 2022.

Included were the following:

Angel Alcantar, Andrea Alvarez, Jayson Arnoldus, Hayley Arroyo, Analise Ayala, Aniyah Bowser, Cody Camarena, Makayla Cardoza, Micah Cardoza, Noah Dannenberg, Van Santino De Leon, Isabella De Sousa, Savannah Del Real, Ellis Denny, Angel Lyka Donan, Peyton Duarte, Shalan Elder, Angel Espinoza, Ryan Fox.

Isidro Galvan Sanchez, Sierrah Garcia, Priscilla Garcia Cervantes, Jose Garcia Garcia, Gracelynn Garwood, Anaaf Girma, Luis Gonzalez-Hernandez, Dale Gray, Lily Haggerty, Zoe Hernandez, Satorya Jacke, Prabhnoor Kaur, Tiana Lew, Chris Martinez-Montero, Anthony Mayorga, Peyton McDonald, Adriana Medeiros, Abree Miller, Jolie Montes, Naomi Moore, David Mousa, Elijah Munoz, Teagan Nazzisi, Brooklyn Neese.

Himat Nijjar, Azai Ochoa Hernandez, Jalene Perez, Joseph Perez-Borquez, Samuel Quintero, Cristian Ramirez, Aubrey Rudolph, Ryan Reyes, Melanie Reynozo, Kalel Ian Santos, Allison Self, Arely Serrano, Jewels Shinn, Harshpreet Sidhu, Gurnoor Sidhu, Aaron Solorio, Isabella Teicheira, Veerpartap Thind, Yulianna Torres Gutierrez, Marely Valencia, Hannah Williamson, Sana Zahid, Vareho Zingkhai.