Kermit the Frog gives graduation speech

At graduation ceremonies this month all across the United States, students listened to sage advice dispensed by esteemed alumni and distinguished speakers.

- ISABELLA KWAI

The Class of 2025 at the University of Maryland heard from a different kind of celebrity - Kermit the Frog.

He took the podium in a Muppet-size formal cap and gown on Thursday to deliver a commencement speech to the graduating students at the university's football stadium.

You might call the campus his birthplace. Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppet Show, was a student at the University of Maryland when he first built Kermit, using his mother's coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half.

Henson, Kermit said on Thursday, "had a hand in literally everything I did".