Today, second and fourth grade students from Brewton Elementary School filled their gymnasium. After finishing 10 weeks in the Super Citizen Program, they are gathered to celebrate their accomplishments and honor local heroes from the stage.
These students have learned their important roles in America’s future thanks to an immersive experience in civics, character, financial literacy and social studies. And in the closing piece of the program, Torch Teams (or “Helping Hands” for the younger students), students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world. They chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas & Liberty Pins. They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the Torch Teams & Helping Hands Heroes honored today in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the Escambia County Community Alliance. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.
Were you at the event? See the photo gallery below to find yourself, to revisit the magic or watch it unfold for the first time >
- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
- Helping Hands certificates make it official!
- These Brewton Elementary students are excited to honor their heroes and get their Helping Hands graduation certificates!
- On their way to becoming Super Citizens!
- Chesley and Tyson lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
- Adlee tells us about her 2nd grade class’s Helping Hands Hero!
- Adlee honored James Brown as her class hero!
- June took the stage to tell us about her class Hero, art teacher Megan Brantley!
- June and Megan Brantley.
- 4th grader Kennedy shares about her class Super Citizen.
- Kennedy and her class Super Citizen, Sybil Brundige.
- 4th grader Boone honors his hero,
- Boone with his class hero, Miller High School student Myles Johnson.
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- We were incredibly honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, and incredible guests, including Carrie Brown from the Brewton City Council, Melissa Johnson from AmeriFirst Bank, and Flomaton Mayor James Johnson.
- Super Citizen Myles Johnson spends some time with Brewton Elementary 4th graders.