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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- Emilana & Sam lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Officer Matt Stokes is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Sawyer
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- Laken honors his mom Kaylee Stancil as his Helping Hands Hero.
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- Pastor Dr. Eric Reaves is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Fisher
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- Cade honors his dad Morgan Mathis as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Dustin Scott is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by his daughter Catherine
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- Deonta Jackson is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his son Jaybren
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- Kinleigh honors Jackie Edmondson as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Patrick Washington is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his son PJ and his mom Antina accepts in his absence.
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- Jebrelle honors Jeannee Mirelles as his Torch Team Hero
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Attalla Elementary School Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them. Also pictured: Principal Melissa Molock, Kenneth Jacobs & Kelly Moore from the City of Attalla.