Today, more than 200 2nd and 5th grade students filled the gymnasium at Attalla Elementary School. 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 civic, 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 Etowah County Community Alliance, Alfa, ScreenTech, BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, AlaTrade Foods, and passionate community sponsors. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.
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- Attalla Elementary students can’t wait to become Super Citizens!
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- These Attalla fifth grader are excited to graduate as Super Citizens!
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- These smiling faces represent the Next Great Americans!
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- Braylon Mostella, Sarah Grace Gibbs, Presley Gulledge, and Abby Browning led their school in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Bodie honors firefighter Chris Correll as Torch Team Hero.
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- Jayon honored his father Jason Kimbril as Helping Hand Hero.
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- Kelli Dodd stood in for Tyrke McKinney honored as Helping Hand Hero by Jaiden Wilson.
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- Tangela Edwards was honored by Kylee was Helping Hands Hero.
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- Sharon Lampkin was honored by Alyssah as Helping Hand Hero.
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- Owen honors Dave Lasseter as Helping Hand Hero.
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- Bobbie Coleman’s daughter explains how he was awarded the Purple Heart in the Korean War.
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- Korean War veteran Bobbie Coleman was honored by his granddaughter Cammy Battles as Torch Team Hero.
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- Jerria Carter was honored as Torch Team Hero by Sara Grace.
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- Paramedic Marshay Price was honored by her sister Quashell Watson as Torch Team Hero.
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- Second-grade students take the Super Citizen pledge.
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- Attalla Elementary Second grade students proudly say their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Super Citizens sing “You in the U.S.A.”
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- Second and fifth grade Super Citizens sing “You in the U.S.A.”
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- Students get loud for the Super Citizen anthem!
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- Only “You” can keep the “You” in the U.S.A.
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- Song volunteers lead their classmates in “You in the U.S.A.”
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- Loud and proud Super Citizens.
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- Proudly singing “You in the U.S.A.”
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- Attalla Elementary Helping Hand and Torch Team Heroes with the students who honored them, along with our Alfa Heroes!
