Today, 150 students filled the Abbeville Elementary School 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 >
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- These 3rd graders are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
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- 2nd graders showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
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- Jayceon & Casey lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Hadley & Peyton honored Lamar Hallford as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Sarah Waller was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Avalynn & Mathew.
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- Assistant Principal Linda Lawrence was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Josephine
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- These 3rd graders stand together to take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Celebrating in song!
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students filled the gym with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Abbeville Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes with Principal Hicks and the students that honored them.
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- Assistant Principal Lawrence with her mom, Niece and future Great Nephew!
