Today, 300 Conecuh County 2nd and 5th grade students filled the Evergreen 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 (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 Conecuh 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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- Tessa, Aiden, Kingston, & Camisha lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Mary Moncrease is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kyler
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- Riele honors Missy Deason as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Robert Riley Jr is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Phoenix & Cameron.
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- Pastor Michael Clemons is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Justin gets a picture after telling us why
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- Braylen honors Eric Bailey as a Torch Team Hero
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- Mariah & Ja’Nala honor Fredrick Simpson as a Torch Team Hero and his wife Kimberly accepts in his absence.
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- Mayor Terri Carter is honored as a Helping Hands & Torch Team Hero by Repton and Abby & Leiyah tells us why
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- 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge
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- Standing together 5th graders 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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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem.
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- U.S.A.!
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- Conecuh County Schools Superintendent Dr. Tonya Bozeman, School Board Member Avery Ford, from the central office Maegan Ford & Monica Mitchell along with the Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and students that honored them.