Today, 100 students filled the 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 >
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- Ellie Jae & Evie Grace ead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- William read about his Helping Hands Hero!
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- Stephen Windham is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by William.
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- Stella reads about her Helping Hands Hero!
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- Stella did a wonderful job reading about her dad and Helping Hands Hero, Buck McDonald.
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- Lola shares about her Torch Team Hero!
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- Donnie Paul is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Lola.
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- Lily and Jaylon tell everyone about their Torch Team Hero!
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- Coach Rodney Dollar is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Lily and Jaylon
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- These 2nd & 3rd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- 5th & 6th graders take their Super Citizens Pledge!
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- Pledging to remember their most important title, Citizen!
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- This Super Citizen takes her Pledge to remember to be a Super Citizen every day!
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- Lane, Tye, Colby, Kayley, Madison, Kara, Devi, Cooper J., Courtney, & Merdith 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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- These students celebrate in song!
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- The students filled the gym with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Thank you to our amazing sponsors!!
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- 2020-21 ACA Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, along with Headmaster Carlisle.
