Today, 150 students from Abbeville Elementary School filled their gym. 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 the Henry 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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- Hillary & Gabriella lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- These 2nd graders tell us all about their Helping Hands Heroes!
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- Payton, Brody, & Neaome tell everyone why the 2nd grade honored Principal Tamek Hicks as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Assistant Principal Linda Lawrence is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Emme, Brielle, & Dalton tell us all why!
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- This 3rd grader tells us all about their hero!
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- City Council Member Decter Glanton is honored as a Torch Team Hero by the 3rd graders and Jace tells us all about him!
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- 2nd graders taking their Helping Hands Plege
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- These 3rd graders stand together to take their Super Ciizen Pledge
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Abbeville Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them.