Today, 500 students from Peek & Creekside Elementary Schools filled the the Auburn Junior 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, students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world.
Students chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas . They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the heroes honored in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the Lee 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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- Showing off their graduation certificate.
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- These 3rd graders are excited to celebrate!
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- Luke & Jack lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Daniel & Sebastian honored Melea Burney as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Officer Lavareis Bryant was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Jeon & Celine.
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- Sawyer honored Liz King as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Taking their Super Citizens Pledge
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- Proudly taking their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Even our heroes sang the tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- U.S.A.!
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- Creekside & Pick Elementary Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them along with Superintendent Christen Herring, Asst. Superintendent Wes Gordan, and Curriculum Coordinator Betty Weeden.
