Today, students from Kinston, New Brockton, & Zion Chapel Elementary Schools 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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- Bryar, Case, Laityn, Talan, Brinley, & Zeke lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Tucker tells everyone why he and his friends at Kinston honor his dad, AJ Johnson as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Teresa Jacobs is honored as a Kinston Helping Hands Hero and Alexa shares all about her.
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- Zion Chapel SRO Officer Deputy Shawn Sawyer is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Gage tells us all about him.
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- Carson shares why his dad Brian Blair is chosen as a New Brockton Helping Hands Herol.
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- New Brockton Nurse Alyssa Farris is chosen as a Helping Hands Hero. Her son Hudson and his friend Ada tells us all about her.
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- Kinston Counselor Connie Hawthorne is honored as a Torch Team Hero and her son Reid tells us all about her.
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- Conner shares with everyone all about why his dad Corey Dean is honored as a Kinston Torch Team Hero.
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- Harley & Emma tells us all about why Rachel Purvee is honored as a New Brockton Torch Team Hero.
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- Carmen shares all about why her grandmother, Nell Arnold is honored as a Zion Chapel Torch Team Hero.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to 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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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Singing loud and proud!
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- Coffee County Heroes!