Today, 200 5th graders filled the Boaz Intermediate School Cafeteria. 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, students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world.
Students chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas . They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the heroes honored in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the Marshall 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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- Rayna & Ronnie lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Mrs. Benefield’s class honor Dawn Lybrand as a Torch Team Hero. Brenlea Dru & Shelby share all about her.
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- Officer Mark Patton is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Julia Reese and her friends in Mrs. Cox’s homeroom.
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- Charlie and her friends in Mrs. Brock’s homeroom honor her Aunt Jessica Sims Knott as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Mrs. Chandler’s homeroom honors Rosy’s dad Esaias Sanchez as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Meredith Brown is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ms. Hamed’s homeroom and her daughter Kinley.
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- Aubree and her friends in Mrs. Freeman’s homeroom honor her dad Michael Burgett as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Miss McCormick’s homeroom honor Alexy Scovil as a Torch Team Hero and Ella shares all about her.
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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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- We love seeing the students excited to sing 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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- Boaz Intermediate School Torch Team Heroes!