Today, Attalla Elementary 2nd and 5th 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 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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- Jema & Timothy lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Ms. Brown’s class honors Coach BJ Jones as a Helping Hands Hero and Lexi shares all about him.
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- Officer Colton Harden is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Jace and his friends in Ms. Davis’s class.
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- Cash and his friend tell everyone why Bruce Word is honored as Ms. Gray’s Class Helping Hands Hero
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- Markiyah and her friends in Ms. Higdon’s honor Amiya Kennon as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Assistant Principal Mrs. Elly Underwood is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Brenley and her friends in Ms. Wester’s class.
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- Jaylynn honors her cousin Blayke Dodd as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Veronica Avila is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Francisco
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- Roger Kimbril is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his great granddaughter Chanelle
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- Magnum Waldrop is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Braxton and his grandmother accepts on his behalf.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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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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- Attalla Elementary School Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes.
