Today, 100 students filled the Abbeville Christian Academy 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 Great Southern Wood Preserving, Inc. 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 >
- Showing off their certificate!
- Ready to honor heroes and celebrate!
- Hudson, Avery, Jami, & Kelsey lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Kayley honored her dad James McClure as her Helping Hands Hero.
- Craig Espy was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by his son Mason.
- Parker & Lily honored Joni Smith as their Torch Team Hero.
- Christy Murphy was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Hope, Jayden, Andrew, & Brannon.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- U.S.A.!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Even our heroes joined in song!
- Abbeville Christian Academy Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them. Also joining them, Headmaster Melanie Carlisle