High school yearbooks will come out this year, reports Hannah Natanson in the Washington Post.

To meet late March and early April deadlines, students found ways to create “pages at warp speed from afar, despite lacking crucial school technology, face-to-face editing or, for some, access to the Internet,” she writes.

This is a year “without Spring Sports, without prom, without graduation,” writes Natanson. “How do you honor a senior class deprived of most senior-year milestones?”

You do the best you can.

At Chantilly High in northern Virginia, advisor Mary Kay Downes let student editors Julia Cheng and Vietthao Ho into the empty building at 8 am.

They yanked seven laptops away from tangles of wires, snatched up charger cords and grabbed as many page proofs as they could. On their way out, they spotted the snacks: packets of Utz chips, trays of Oreos and large bottles of soda, accrued by yearbook staff in expectation of long, late production nights.

They also remembered the small dispensers of hand sanitizer Downes likes to keep on each desk in her classroom.

“It’s a pandemic,” Cheng said later. “We grabbed them all.”

Madison Bailey, editor of the Prince George High yearbook, “had to redesign more than a dozen pages after the virus nixed spring traditions, and she lost a third of her staff, who were unable to get online,” writes Natanson. Bailey filled empty pages with a story “tracking the outbreak of the virus in Virginia, an article focused on food distribution and how teachers are shifting classes online, and a story about spring sports teams, whose seasons died in their infancy.”