Throughout the school year, there has been a buzz surrounding where Miami Palmetto Senior High’s senior class will spend their next four years following graduation. Luckily, students have been able to access this information easily by opening their Instagram and searching @afterpalmetto.2026. On this page, students will find that each student has their own post, equipped with their picture, future college, major and a baby picture of them.
However, the page is unique, as each caption has a description of the student’s activities, filled with jokes about their major and activities they have participated in at school.
This page is consistently run by seniors Samira Moore and Indeah Lane. Moore and Lane have used the account to represent their school’s senior class throughout the college decision process.
“For me, my lacrosse big sister Amy-Grace ran the account two years ago, so I always knew I wanted to take [the account] on, and I was excited to,” Moore said.
While Moore discovered it by watching a friend run the account, both Lane and her were able to get into these positions by working alongside MPSH’s College Advisory Program (CAP) Advisor Linda Dwyer.
“We’re both aides for Dwyer, and that’s one of the duties as an aide. Every year, there are a few of them that decide to run the page,” Lane said.
Each post requires a lot of organization from the duo, as they have to balance their senior year while simultaneously managing the seniors’ college decision account.
“I put [everything] on an Excel spreadsheet. So I’ll get the notification, and [the students] send in the photos. I’ll text them like, ‘Hey, can you add more fillers? Do you have any more clubs?’,” Moore said. “And then, I’ll make the post, and we rotate captions.”
There is also an element of constant brainstorming on how to make each caption perfectly fit the student while making it more unique than the past captions.
“We have to add in different puns, and like emojis … We also send them to each other to get feedback, so we can approve them [before posting],” Lane said.
However, precautions do need to be taken before creating and uploading these posts. In the past, there have been instances of false commitments being sent to the afterpalmetto account runners. To combat this issue, Dwyer has become more involved in ensuring the commitments are accurate, helping Moore and Lane maintain the account’s credibility.
“The students have to send a picture of their letter of acceptance from the school, and then they have to click ‘Enrolling,’” Dwyer said. “So we kind of use it as a way for me to help do my job, because I need to get every senior to click ‘Enrolling’ [once they commit].”
When a student opens their Instagram at the end of the day, they will likely see an afterpalmetto post. Thanks to the work of Moore and Samira, each student has a personalized way of showing their future college and Panther pride.
“They care about every single kid, and I love it,” Dwyer said. “It’s very Palmetto to highlight every single kid, because every decision, every school is exciting.”
