(Image source from: AZCentral.com)

Hundreds of Arizona students had a start to their day on Wednesday by walking out of class to hold demonstrations on campus as part of National Walkout Day. They assembled to honor the 17 victims killed a month ago in a shooting in a Florida high school and a shout for an end to gun violence in America.

About 45 students in white T-shirts finished the day with a sit-in at Gov. Doug Ducey's office, demanding to speak to him about gun violence in school and humming "Shame on Ducey."

Ducey did not make his presence and a democratic state lawmaker persuaded the students to leave peacefully after about two hours.

Morning walkout

Hundreds of students walked onto the campus football field at about 10 a.m. at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale. Some wore orange colored shirts for gun-control awareness.

Students laid out giant letters that spelled "ENOUGH" on the 50-yard line.

They read the names of the 17 victims of the Parkland shooting and stood in silence for about 7 minutes. Some bowed their heads; others clasped their fists in the air as a TV helicopter whirred above them.

Rylee Tinnel, a Mountain Ridge senior who prepared her school's demonstration, told  the Florida massacre "sparked something in me that someone needs to say something."

List of Arizona schools that walked out

Students walked out of classes in metro Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff. According to photos or videos posted to social media, walkouts took place at these high schools:

- Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale
- Apollo High School in Glendale
- Deer Valley High School in Glendale
- Cactus High School in Glendale
- Raymond S Kellis High School in Glendale
- Liberty High School in Peoria
- Peoria High School in Peoria
- Sunrise Mountain High School in Peoria
- Valley Vista High School in Surprise
- Dysart High School in El Mirage
- Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix
- Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix
- Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek
- Rincon High School in Tucson
- University High School in Tucson
- Amphitheater High School in Tucson
- Flowing Wells High School in Tucson
- Flowing Wells Junior High School in Tucson
- Palo Verde High Magnet School in Tucson
- Desert View High School in Tucson
- Flagstaff High School in Flagstaff
- BASIS Peoria

Few from the Arizona elementary and middle schools also participated, which included:

- Sonoran Foothills School, an elementary school in north Phoenix
- Cholla Middle School in Phoenix
- Gallego Intermediate Fine Arts Magnet School, a middle school in Tucson

--By Kavita R