Today, 150 2nd and 3rd grade students filled their auditorium. 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 Crenshaw 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 >
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- Kendra & JJ lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Analeigh & Madalynn tell everyone why the 2nd grade chose their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Fred Crenshaw was chosen as the 2nd grade Helping Hands Hero
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- Brody & Miley tell everyone all about why they chose Leigh Ann Brown as the 3d grade Torch Team Hero.
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge
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- 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge
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- These 2nd graders stand together to take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 3rd graders taking their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- These 3rd grade students standing together to take their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Standing together to pledge to be Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- U.S.A.!
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Celebrating in song!
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- The students filled the auditorium with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Highland Home Helping Hands Hero, Torch Team Hero, 2nd & 3rd grade teachers with Principal Gary Coleman.
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- Principal Coleman congratulates his 2nd & 3rd grade Super Citizens!
