Today, 525 students filled the West Elementary 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 Cullman 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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- Grayson, Ryleigh, Adalaide, & Lane lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Abram shares why 2nd graders from East Elementary honored music teacher Tim Clemmons as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Judy McBrayer is honored as West Elementary Helping Hands Hero by Jax.
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- Keenan Fowlkes is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Lucy Kate
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- Lorelai honors Misty Lang as a Torch Team Hero
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- Firefighter Caleb Bonds is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his daughter Kennedi and friend Kate Preston.
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- Emma honors her dad Chase Cornell as a Torch Team Hero.
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- 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- Cullman City 5th grades stand to take their Super Citizens 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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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- U.S.A.
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- Singing along to our tour anthem.
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- Cullman City Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them.