Today, Coffee County students filled the Kinston High 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 Coffee 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 Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
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- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
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- Braelyn, Christine, Brayden, Jameil, Lilly Grace, and Kessy Brooke lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
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- Hadley took the mic to tell us all about her class’s Helping Hands Hero: Sandy Rhodes!
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- School Nurse Chrissy Hughes is a true Super Citizen, and Taylor told us why!
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- Graham let us all know about his class’s Helping Hands Hero, Mrs. Tiffany Massey!
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- Mr. Lee Boutwell is a science teacher and the director of the Extended Day program at Zion Chapel. Hayes and Lucy talked about how his dedication makes him their Helping Hands Hero!
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- Beloved Football Coach Tyler Simmons was honored as the Torch Team Hero for Brooks’s class!
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- Army Veteran and teacher Kira Thomas inspires these students to be the best they can be, and Kate told us why!
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- Isabella, Harper, and Makenna’s class chose to honor their 4-H Teacher, Brandy Peeples, as their Torch Team Hero!
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- Caroline told us all about how her school’s custodian, Mrs. Pam Watson, shows her class what a real Super Citizen looks like!
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- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
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- Now it’s time for Coffee County 5th graders to take the Super Citizen Pledge!
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- These students placed their hands on their heart and promised to be a Super Citizen.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- We are thankful to everyone who made our event possible, especially Representative Rhett Marques, Carolyn Broaden, and Coffee County’s amazing principals and assistant principals, including Megan Driggers, Shasta Barron, and Johnny Bryant!
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- We were very excited to have Representative Rhett Marques celebrating with us today!
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- The Kinston Ambassadors are a great example of the way Super Citizens continually serve their communities – even beyond our program!
