Today, 2nd and 3rd grade students filled their 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 Coosa 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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- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
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- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
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- Staceyona & John lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Sadie and her friend Elisha tell everyone why 2nd grade chose her mom Maressa Ware as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- These Super Citizens tell everyone why 3rde graders chose their Bus Drivers and Lunchroom Staff as their Torch Team Heroes. Kimberlie Conn & Debra Hawthorne accept for them.
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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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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- U.S.A.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
