Today, 200 5th graders filled the Boaz Intermediate School Cafeteria. 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 Marshall 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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- Ava & Addison lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- School Counselor Amanda Duckett is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Kinsley.
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- Lilah honored Cherise Charris as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Jenny Higdon is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Hadley.
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- Bentley honored Carrie Brock as a Torch Team Hero
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- Bryson honored his Uncle Jabin Adams as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Rachel told us all about why she chose her mom Rachel Rye as a Torch Team Hero and we grab her picture after.
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- School Resource Officer Mark Patton is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ashly
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- Everyone taking the Super Citizens Pledge.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- Everyone singing in celebration
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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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- Students singing along to our tour anthem
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- Boaz Intermediate Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, Principal Kristi Hopper, & Pam Osborn with Peoples Independent Bank.