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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- Principal Melissa Moluck welcomes everyone to the Atalla Elementary Super Citizen Celebration!
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- Casein & Kade lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Kree & her friend, tell us why they chose her dad, Deputy Blake Perry as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Ryleigh chose her dad, Patrick Boggs as a Helping Hands Hero. Her friend Makynlee reads the reasons why in her absence.
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- Charlize tells us why she chose Chauna McKinney as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Nurse Britney Mathis is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Marisol.
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- Channing honored his grandfather, Robert Stephens as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Jayden honored his grandfather, Allen Ragan as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Janice Dean is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Brooklyn.
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- Jayla honored Karon Sullivan as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Lamont Tucker is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his grandson, Kincaid.
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- Alana tells us why she chose her Pastor, Blake Jones as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Standing together to take their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- Taking theHelping Hands Pledge!
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- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
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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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- 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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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- U.S.A.!
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- We having Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Attalla Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes!
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- We are so honored to have Representative Gil Isbell support the students of Attalla!
