Today, 825 students filled the Bevill State Community College Rowland Hall 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 Walker 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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- Layla, Noah, Bryce, Addison, & Raylie lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Lupton 2nd graders honor Steven Legg as a Helping Hands Hero and Sailor shares why!
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- Officer Ron Colburn is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Ella Brook and her friends from Parrish 2nd grade
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- Khloe shares why she and her friends at Curry Elementary chose Brent Hudson as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Melody Dawkins is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kinsley and her friends at Cordova Elelmentary
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- Quinnley and her friends at Cordova honored Jermy Pate as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Jack Scott is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Oakley and the 2nd graders from Cordova Elementary
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- Aubriona and her friends from Cordova honor Renea Sides as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Judge Joeletta Barrentine is honored by Rylee & Isabelle and their friends at Sumiton Elementary as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Hannah & Johnson along with their friends at Sumiton Elementary honor Ashley Kimberly as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Asher, his friend August and their friends from Sumiton honor his dad Andy Powell as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Shericka Williams is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Austin, Asher and their friends at Sumiton Elementary.
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- Tanner and his friend Preslie honor his dad Nick Isbell as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Dr. Rhonda Davidson is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Jud & Hudson and their friends at Sumiton Elementary
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- Lupton 5th graders honor Tony Rothenberger as a Torch Team Hero by Carleigh
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- Alice & Braden honor Karla McClenny as a Torch Team Hero
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- Officer Ron Colburn is honored again by the 5th grade at Parrish and Mackala as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Adrianna & Jace honor JJ Jackson as a Torch Team Hero
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- AJ Pruitt is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Adriana & Jace and their friends from Bankhead Middle.
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- Amber Gilliland is honred as a Torch Team Hero by Makena and her friends at Bankhead
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- Officer Jason Hare is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Bankhead 5th graders and Ryan
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- These students stand together to take their Super Citizen Pledge
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in 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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- U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Walker County Schools Heroes!