CINCINNATI, Ohio — For high school students everywhere, the end of the year looks a lot different, but one Cincinnati group came together to help them make the most of a now virtual prom.

• Hundreds joined in on a virtual prom 
• Local DJ live streamed the music while students dressed up and watched 
• DADs group organized event 

When a pandemic cancels everything you’re supposed to remember about high school, you can’t help but feel like this.

“A little depressed,” said student Lamont “Rocky” Chatman Jr.

Rocky is a graduating senior at Cincinnati’s Creative and Performing Arts school.

But he won’t be walking across the school stage for his diploma or dancing in the gym for senior prom.

“It makes me want to tell everybody who isn’t a senior to always, it might kinda sound bad, but to just live for the moment, and just know you don’t get second chances,” said Chatman Jr. 

It’s the reason his parents are backing him on a plan to go to prom in a different way.

“Fortunately for me, this is an event his mom and I won’t have to worry about chaperoning because we know that he’s safe,” said Rocky’s father Lamont Chatman Sr.

He’s sending Rocky off to prom online.

Students turned their rooms and living rooms into a dance floor this weekend, then logged on and listened, with Tyran Stallings’ house as the DJ booth. 

“My son is actually a DJ for his college for Central State University, so he’s been running lives for the college and DJing, so he started reaching out and we’ve been reaching out to our network,” said D.A.D. organizer Tyran Stallings. 

He’s a part of the non-profit mentoring group, "D.A.D." in Cincinnati — the group that turned senior prom virtual  for any student who couldn’t go to one at their school. 

“it’s unprecedented, so it still lets them be submitted in history as the first people to have prom online,” said Stallings. 

Some students wearing prom dresses and suits, logged on for the virtual prom. 

It’s a prom that at least for a few hours made it not so bad — and something they’ll remember. 

“Definitely won’t forget it,” said Chatman Jr.