Today, students from Geraldine, Henagar,Plainview, Sylvania, & Fyffe filled the DeKalb County Schools Colesium. 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 DeKalb 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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- Super Citizen lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Jase, Jasper, & Ariel honor Glenda Stepheson as Geraldines Helping Hands Hero.
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- Henagar honors Louise Chadwick as a Helping Hands Hero by Madison.
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- Snowden tells everyone why Plainview chose Allison Jackson as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Sylvania honors Dana Paddock as a Helping Hands Hero by Maddy & Martha.
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- Katie Umphrey is honored as a Fyffe Helping Hands Hero by Silas.
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- Mason & Abby tells everyone why Geraldine chose Brandon Renfroe as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Henagar honors Mary Young as a Torch Team Hero by Carson.
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- Lyla & Natalie tell everyone why Officer Nick Turner is honored as Plainview’s Torch Team Hero.
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- Jessica Dixson is honored as a Sylvania Torch Team Hero by Khidon & Mason.
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- Fyffe honors Angie Edge as a Torch Team Hero by Livy.
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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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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- U.S.A.!
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- 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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- DeKalb County Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes.