Today, 200 students students filled the Kinston High School Auditorium. 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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- These students are excited to honor their heroes!
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- These Super Citizens show off their graduation certificates!
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- Tucker & Bryant lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Kinston Principal Danny Branch was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Parker.
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- Addalyn honored Sue Holmes as her Helping Hands Hero.
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- Cole & Parker honored Sally Danford as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Ben Green is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by his grandson Ben.
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- William honored Officer Alan Willis as his Torch Team Hero.
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- Annie Hendrix is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Brynne.
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- Ayden & Kirstyn honored Nurse Alyssa Farris as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Garrett, Paisyn, Ariel, Lyla, Carter, Kiley, Kierra, Devyn, Hayden, & Rayne lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students filled the auditorium with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Coffee County Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them!
