Today, 150 students filled the Abbeville 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.
Noel Vanlandingham, Chief of Police Abbeville Alabama
“To have kids this young recognize you for things that you do in the grown-up world, it just leaves you speechless. I think this alliance has done a wonderful thing. I hope they continue it long after I am gone.”
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 Henry 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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- Showing off their cerficate.
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- These 2nd graders are excited to honor their heroes!
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- Zaiden & Toby lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Brayden & Brody honored Javen Williams as their Helping Hands Hero. His mom, Shae Williams accepted because Javen is currently deployed.
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- Cali Capps was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Peyton & Mariah.
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- Aubrie and his friend Bryson honored his dad Dez Brown as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Willie Frank Dennis was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Braelynn & Ryleigh.
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- Police Chief Noel Vanlandingham was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ryleigh & Nykolas.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Singing in celebration!
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- The students filled the gym with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Abbeville Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them.
