Today, 200 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 >
- Ana & Mah’lon lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Assistant Principal Tania Thompson is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by the 2nd grade and Katerina tells everyone why!
- Tyson tells us all why the 2nd grade chose Tammy Smith as a Helping Hands Hero!
- Carolyn Barnes is honored by the 4th grade as a Torch Team Hero and DJ & Alex tell us all about her!
- Chloe & Elijah share why the 4th grade chose Stephanie Dolhite as a Torch Team Hero.
- 2nd grade students saying their Helping Hands Pledge
- These 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge
- 4th graders take their Super Citizen Pledge
- These 4th graders take their Super Citizens Pledge.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- U.S.A.!
- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- SInging in celebration!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Brewton Elementary School Heroes!