- December 19, 2025
Flagler Palm Coast held its annual International Baccalaureate Diploma Ceremony on Dec. 17 at the FPC Bistro. Twelve 2025 IB graduates returned to campus to receive their IB diplomas and reconnect with their classmates, teachers and administrators.
“All IB results come out over the summer so these students never know whether they passed until after they graduate high school,” FPC Assistant Principal Mandy Kraverotis said. “And the physical IB diplomas don’t come out until around November. So we always do this holiday break celebration for them.”
Not all of the graduates were able to make the ceremony. There were 25 IB graduates in FPC’s 2025 graduating class, Kraverotis said. About twice that many are expected to receive their IB diplomas in 2026, she said.
“This was a good way to come back and see people that we haven’t seen in so long,” said Dani Nieves, who is now a University of Florida freshman majoring in biomedical engineering. “IB was a very tight-knit group.”
Nieves is a member of UF’s GRiP club working with prosthetics.
“It’s essentially a club that, as a student you get to work hands-on and actually build prosthetics and get to learn what it really means to be a biomedical engineer and see it in action,” she said.
Shellsea Ibarra Carreon said the IB program not only prepared her for college but also for life.
“It prepared me for a lot of the writing you have to do in college,” said Ibarra Carreon, who is majoring in computational biology at Florida State University. “Because of the IB program I know what other people are expecting of me, especially in research areas or community clubs, because you can take that role of leadership.”
