Today, 475 students from Kinston, New Brockton, & Zion Chapel 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 Foundation. 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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- Jud, Isabella, Cayden, Tindol, Tristain, Jeremiah, & Zae lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Kinston 2nd graders honor JP’s mom, School Secretary Ashley Norris as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Kinston SRO William Hattaway is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Corbitt tells us all why!
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- New Brockton 2nd graders chose Lucenda Tidwell as a Helping Hands Hero and Cooper tells us all about her!
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- Brooke and her friends at New Brockton chose Mayor as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Emily Sherrer is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kyleigh and her friends a New Brockton.
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- Cash and his friends at Zion Chapel honor his dad Taylor Stephens as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Coach Anthony Weeks is chosen as a Torch Team Hero by Kinston 5th graders and Tucker shares why!
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- Levi chose his Aunt Alyssa Wilson as Kinston’s Torch Team Hero.
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- New Brockton 5th grade chose Danielle Donaldson as a Torch Team Hero and Addie & Jaylie tells us all about her!
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- Jettadia Bush is honored as Zion Chapel’s Torch Team Hero and Rylan tells everyone why.
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- 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- Coffee County 2nd graders taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- These 5th graders stand to take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Coffee County 5th graders standing together to take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Coffee County Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes!