Def Leppard met the Deaf Leopards of Arkansas' School for the Deaf at the band's North Little Rock show Wednesday, an encounter made possible after an online petition gathered attention earlier this year.
The band posted on Twitter a photo of its members posing with several students in front of a reproduction of the school scoreboard, which reads, "Arkansas School for the Deaf Leopards."
The petition, started by a program officer at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, gathered more than 1,400 signatures in favor of the band stopping by the school and taking a photo in front of the scoreboard. Instead, the meeting happened at the site of the concert, Verizon Arena.
Stacey Tatera, spokesman school, called the meet-and-greet a "tribute to the power of social media."
Arkansas' Deaf Leopards - Thanks for coming out to the show! #DefLeppard pic.twitter.com/0LzZZvXAqI
— Def Leppard (@DefLeppard) May 12, 2016
Arkansas Online reporter Brandon Riddle contributed to this story.