Today, 550 5th graders filled the Albertville High School Auditorium. 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, students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world.
Students chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas . They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the heroes honored in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the Marshall 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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- Jose & Addi lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Principal Robert Sims shares with his students their important role as Super Citizens!
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- Presleigh, Brooksy, & Louisa honored Lexi Blackstone as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Cassie Lynch is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Tanshuman
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- Aiyona honored Mark Sampson as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Jason Simpson is honored as a Torch Team Hero and after Litzy told us all about him, we grabbed her picture
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- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
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- 5th graders stand together to take their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
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- 5th graders stand together to take their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- 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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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- 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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- Albertville Intermediate Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them, along with Principal SIms.