Today, 275 students from Amelia L Johnson, Marengo, Sweet Water, & Linden Elementary Schools filled the Sweet Water High School 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 Mareno 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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- Sa’Niyah, Jamaal, & Joseph lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Amelia L Johnson 2nd graders chose Dorell Twilley as a Helping Hands Hero and Maci shares all about her.
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- Ta’Niyah tells everyone why she and her friends at Marengo chose Karen Jones as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Rhonda Harris is chosen as a Helping Hands Hero by Sweet Water 2nd graders and Semani tells us all about her.
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- Linden 2nd graders chose Machelle Jackson as a Helping Hands Hero and Madison tells us all about her.
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- Ontario Woods is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Carymn and her friends at Amelia L Johnson.
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- Marengo 3rd graders honored April Hunter as a Torch Team Hero and Devante tells everyone all about her!
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- Tanya Williams is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Amari and her friends at Sweet Water.
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- Sara Bates is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Linden 3rd grade and Fajha tells us all about her.
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- Linden 3rd graders honor Gloria Rembert as a Torch Team Hero and Isabella tells us all about her.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the 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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- Marengo County & Linden City Heroes!