Today, 500 students from DeKalb County Schools filled the DeKalb County Schools Coliseum. 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 DeKalb 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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- Superintendent Wayne Lyles shares his gratitude to his students for making great choices as they complete their Super Citizen Program!
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- Levi, Angelica, & Macey lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Dwight Roper is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Ava.
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- Principal Scott Timmons is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Erin
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- Sawyer honors his mom Leslie Ledbetter as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Eddie King is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Elaina
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- Charley honors her grandmother, Debbie Sizemore as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Officer Tim Delvin is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Rylee
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- Henagar 5th grade honors Barry Pickett as their Torch Team Hero and Avery tells us why!
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- Jim Higdon is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his grandson Sam
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- Sylvania 5th grade honors Jesse Gamez as a Torch Team Hero and Asa tells us all why
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- James and his friend Nathanael tell everyone why Ider 5th grade chose his dad Chief James Slaughter as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Fyffe 5th grade honored their custodia Robin Hood as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- U.S.A.!
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- Fyffe 5th graders at their celebration!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students 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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- Singing in celebration.
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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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- DeKalb County Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them. Also pictured: Superintendent Wayne Lyles and Mary Crosby