Today, West Elementary, East Elementary, and Cullman City Primary School students filled the Cullman City Primary 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 Cullman 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 >
- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- Abby & Walker lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Anna James tells everyone why her friends at Cullman City Primary chose her dad, Dr. Connor Ojard as a Helping Hands Hero.
- Donna Avery is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Kenzie tells us all about her.
- Cullman Poilce Chief David Nassetta is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Dexter shares all about him.
- West Elementary honors Retired Lieutenant Colonel John Wheeler as a Torch Team Hero and Lydia tells us all about him.
- Officer Scott Bartle is honored as East Elementary Torch Team Hero and Grayson & Brylee share why!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- U.S.A.!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Cullman City Schools Heroes!