Today, 500 students filled the Lurleen B. Wallace Community College Dixon Theater. 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 Covington 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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- Brantley, Juliet, Alister, Carter, & Oakley lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Fleeta 2nd grade honor Kathy Moore as a Helping Hands Hero and Brice & Maceigh tell everyone all about her.
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- Samuel & his friend Addie tell everyone why Pleasant Home 2nd grade chose his dad, Assistant Principal Dr. Marc Tracy as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Red Level 2nd grade chose Nurse Tammie Chesser as a Helping Hands Hero and Kayden tell everyone why!
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- Wilma Sport is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Straughn 2nd grade and her granddaughter Kaylee and her friend Maggie tell us all about her!
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- WS Harlan chose Mary Harrison as a Helping Hands Hero and Ayzlee & Grayslyn share why she was chosen!
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- Eli and his 3rd grade friends at Fleeta chose Stephanie Jordan as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Pleasant Home 3rd grade chose Mickey Glisson as a Torch Team Hero and Audrina & Dalton tell us all about her!
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- Jenny Henderson is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Analiese and her friends from Red Level.
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- Straughn 3rd grade chose Joyce Mitchell as a Torch Team Hero and Reese & Helena share why!
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- Elisa Mount is chosen as WS Harlan’s Torch Team Hero and Aubree tells us all about her!
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- Covington County 2nd grade taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 2nd graders stand together to take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 3rd grade students of Covington County take their Super Citizen Pledge!
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- Standing together to take their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Covington County Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them and our friends from Solon and Martha Dixon Foundation – Doris Tyler and Phillip Jones