Today, 2nd and 3rd grade 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 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 >
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
- Preslee & Donterius lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Anthony tells everyone why Officer Calhoun was chosen as a Helping Hands Hero. Sheriff Eric Blankenship accepts on his behalf.
- SRO Officer Trevor Dykes is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Edgar tells us all about him.
- Emme tells us all about why Neandra Turner is honored as a Torch Team Hero.
- Barbara Hudson is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Victoria tells us all about her.
- 2nd graders taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
- These 3rd graders stand together to take their Super Citizen Pledge
- 3rd graders take their Super Citizen Pledge.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- Abbeville Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes!
- We lovd having Henry County Sheriff Eric Blankenship & Representative Rick Rehm with us today!