Today, second and fourth grade students from Early County Elementary School filled their cafeteria. 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 an 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 passionate community sponsors. 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 >
- Skye and Kharsyn lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
- Zola shares her speech to honor 2nd Grade’s Helping Hands Hero!
- 2nd Grade’s Hero is Superintendent Jessica Brown. She couldn’t make it to our celebration, so Assistant Superintendent Clifford Lovett was here to accept the award on her behalf!
- We’re very grateful for Superintendent Brown’s role in these students’ lives!
- Aubree let us hear all about 4th Grade’s amazing Torch Team Hero!
- Beloved custodian Willie Bradley shows these students what it truly means to care for their community, and for that he’s been selected as the Torch Team Hero!
- Pledging to be a Helping Hand!
- Taking their Helping Hands pledge!
- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
- These students placed their hands on their heart and promised to be a Super Citizen.
- 4th grade students pledged to be “a good, responsible, and active American.”
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- 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.!
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
- “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.!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- We were incredibly honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, and incredible guests!

























