Today, 250 students filled the Attalla 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 Etowah 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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- 2nd graders are excited to celebrate!
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- 5th graders show off their graduation certificate!
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- Jackson & Brayden lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Zeya honored Lexi Brown as her Helping Hands Hero.
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- Magnum Waldrop is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Lashaun.
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- Mason honored his mom Jill Reeves as his Helping Hands Hero.
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- Jessica Glover was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by her daughter Laila.
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- Wes Gulledge was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Mason.
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- Zak Mahmoud was honored as a Torch Team Hero by his daughter Kadence.
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- Coleman honored his Aunt April Helms as his Torch Team Hero.
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- Jerome Beavers was honored as a Torch Team Hero by his stepdaughter Autumn.
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- Payton honored her grandfather Charles Hicks as her Torch Team Hero.
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- Attalla Fire Departments were honored as Torch Team Heroes. Andrew Dale accepted on behalf of both stations.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- U.S.A.!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!U
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- Attalla Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them, Principal Greg Edge and Attalla City Schools Superintendent Jeff Colegrove.
