Today, 175 students filled the Cherokee 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, 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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- Showing off their graduation certificate!
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- Evan & Kesin lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Chief Jim Peterson was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Jett.
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- Officer Ken Bubbett was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ollie.
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- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- Cherokee Elementary Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, Principal JullieAnn McCulley and Superintendent Brett Stanton
