Today, 200 2nd & 4th grade students filled the Brewton 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 Escambia 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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- Alaena & KJ lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Redick tells everyone why they chose his hero.
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- Rhonda Joyner is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and her granddaughter, Lily accepts from Redick in her absence.
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- Stella reads about her hero.
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- Stella honored Angie Boutwell as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Kylie tells everyone about her Torch Team Hero.
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- Spinks Megginson was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Kylie
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- Ashlee reads about why they chose their Torch Team Hero.
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- Officer Keyetta Hodges is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ashlee.
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 4th graders take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Thank you to our amazing sponsors!!
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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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- Brewton Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes!