Today, Elkmont 2nd and 3rd grade students and Tanner 2nd grade students filled the Elkmont 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 Limestone 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 >
- Limestone County Heroes!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing loud and proud!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- U.S.A.!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Brinley & Fowler share why Elkmont chose Amber Robinson as a Torch Team Hero.
- Ida & Audrey tell everyone why Elkmont chose Ronald Christ as a Helping Hands Hero.
- Officer Sygnae Townsend is chosen as a Tanner Helping Hands Hero and Juliet tells us all about him.
- Levi shares with everyone why Travis Fletcher is chosen as a Tanner Helping Hands Hero.
- Sue Harris is chosen as a Tanner Helping Hands Hero and Bella shares all about her.
- Grayson, Drake, & Oliver lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.