Today Abbeville Christian Academy students filled their 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 & Representative Rick Rehm. 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 >
- Cayson and Tye lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance
- Kate told us about her 2nd grade class’s Helping Hands Hero, Headmaster Heath Whittington.
- Beau took the stage to tell us about Abbeville Christian’s Helping Hands Hero, Officer Bethany Hicks!
- Mollie honored Kristi Worrell (her mom!) as her class Super Citizen!
- Ellie Jae told us all about how her hero, veteran Dan Stamariz, inspires her class to be Super Citizens!
- Now it’s time for Abbeville Christian 2nd and 3rd graders to take the Helping Hands Pledge!
- Mr. Palmer himself led the students in their Helping Hands Pledge!
- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
- Students pledged to be “a good, responsible, and active American.”
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- Students and guests alike singing along to our tour anthem!
- We are thankful to everyone who made our event possible, especially Rep. Rick Rehm!