Today, students Collinsville Elementary, Crossville Elementary, Crossville Middle, Ider, Ruhama, & Valley Head Elementary 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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- Yoselin, Mason, Taegan, Jason, & Edward lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Collinsville honors Jairo Castillo as a Helping Hands Hero and Brycen tells us all about him.
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- Gerardo, Abraham, Edgar, & Jesus tell us all about why Crossville chose Anna Land as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- SRO Officer Danny Bryan is honored as Ider Helping Hands Hero by Ava.
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- Valley Head honors Coach Charles Hammon as a Helping Hands Hero. Lauren & Brantley tell us all about him
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- David Bailey is honored as Ruhama Helping Hands Hero by Jackson & Emmaline.
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- Koby, Leslie, Deena, Abby, Adalyn, & Devci honor Bradley Crawford as Collinsville Torch Team Hero.
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- Crossville honors Jon Bales as a Torch Team Hero by Austin & Hudson.
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- Juana tells us why Crossville honors Gina Ferguson as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Scott McFall is honored as Ider Torch Team Hero by Brandon & Mary Jane.
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- Allie, Hunter, Garner, & Braxley tell everyone why Principal Dr. Stevie Green is honored as Ruhama Torch Team Hero.
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- Valley Head honors Officer Tim Rector as a Torch Team Hero and Larkin & Aubree tell us all about him.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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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 Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes!