Today, 575 students filled the BB Comer High School 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 Talladega 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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- Marion, Jackson, Ryan, & Preston lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- William Perry is honored as a Helping Hands Hero for Sycamore 2nd grade and Geneva tells everyone all about him!
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- Emery tells everyone why Childersburg 2nd graders chose Mary Brown as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Watood 2nd graders chose Tracie Kelley as a Helping Hands Hero and Bailey shares why!
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- Preslie and her 2nd grade friends at BB Comer chose Rhonda Jennings as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Bella chose her dad Kevin Ezekiel as a Helping Hands hero
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- Staff Sergeant Andrew Nicholson is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by his son Dawson & his friend Damion.
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- Caroline & Kaylee tell everyone why Fayetteville 2nd grade chose Officer Josh Vandiver as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Daniel chose his Aunt E-4 Specialist Briana Jones as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Greg Clifton is honored as a Torch Team Her by Bella
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- Karma honors her dad Chris Fowler as a Torch Team Hero
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- Edward Borden is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his daughter Elexia and her friend Aidyn
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- Nikki Cosper is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Briley & Chole
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- Johnny Arant is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his grandson Judson and his friends Paisleigh, Tessa, Reagan, & Mattie
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- Eli and his friends Mason, Ethan, JP, & Cooper honor his dad Brent Kirkland as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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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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- Talladega County Schools Heroes!