Today, 3rd graders from Allentown, Eichold-Mertz School , Elsie Collier, Erwin Craighead, Grant Elementary School, Maryvale Elementary School, & Tanner Williams Elementary Schools filled the Murphy 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 Mobile 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 Citizens lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Murphy High School Junior ROTC Presented Colors!
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- Allentown honors Walter Ballard as a Torch Team Hero and Brantson tells us all about him.
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- Leonardo shares why he and his friends at Eichold-Mertz honored his mom Diona Powell as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Eichold-Mertz honors Amanuel’s Uncle Tilahun Mekonnen as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Abenezer tells everyone why he and his friends at Eichold-Mertz honored his mom Martha Gizaw as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Eichold-Mertz honors Vincent Harvey as a Torch Team Hero and Aubrey tells us all about him.
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- Ava tells us all why she and her friends at Elsie Collier chose her grandfather Dean Hrobar as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Brian Holcombe is chosen as a Elsie Collier Torch Team Hero by his daughter Abigail.
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- Elsie Collier honored Vicky Antosz as a Torch Team Hero and Jaelyn tells us all about her.
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- Miracle tells everyone why Elsie Collier chose Tiffany Jones as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Elsie Collier chose Elijah’s Cello Instructor, Andrea Beltran Landers as a Torch Team Hero.l
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- Erwin Craighead honors Jennifer Feagin as a Torch Team Hero and Brooklyn tells everyone why!
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- Ella Grant Nurse Genevia Omoruyi is chosen as a Torch Team Hero and Jeffery tells us all about her.
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- Aston tells everyone why Maryvale chose Tanya Otis as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Tanner WIlliams honors their PTO – Leshay Brannan, AMy Malinauskus, Michele Southerland, & Monica Helton as their Torch Team Heroes. Reed & Ava share all about them
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- U.S.A.!
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- Mobile County Torch Team Heroes!