Today Beverlye, Carver, Faine, Selma Street, & Highlands Elementary School students filled the Dothan High School Convocation Center. 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 Houston 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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- Super Citizens lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Karter told us about his 2nd grade class’s Helping Hands Hero, custodian Barbara George!.
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- Ariyah took the stage to tell us about Selma Street’s Helping Hands Hero, Melisa Boannan!
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- Highlands Elementary’s Helping Hands hero is their nurse, Ms. Irene Yeager, and Eli and Ava told us all about it!
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- Aiden and Corey honored assistant principal Matthew Smith as their class Super Citizen!
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- Scarlett told us all about how her hero, Angela Underwood from The House of Ruth, inspires her class to be Super Citizens!
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- Ariel from Carver Elementary honored Officer Mullis from the Dothan Police Department as her class’s Torch Team Hero!
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- Jace from Carver took the stage to tell us why Mike Schmitz is a true Super Citizen!
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- Naomi honored her class’s Torch Team Hero: Desiree Martinez-Cook!
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- Faine 5th grader Tristan honored Deshawnda Partlow, of Fortis College as his hero!
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- ZaKhia honored Dr. Turner Vincent as Selma Street Elementary’s Torch Team hero!
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- Zoe told us all about why her 5th grade class at Highlands chose to honor Joel Davision, her dad, as their Super Citizen!
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- Bentley told us about his 5th grade class’s Torch Team hero, Savannah Calhoun!
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- Phenix took the stage to tell us about Highland’s Torch Team Hero, Aracely Salazar!
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- Now it’s time for Dothan City 2nd graders to take the Helping Hands Pledge!
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- These students placed their hands on their heart and promised to be a Super Citizen.
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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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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- Students and teachers alike singing along to our tour anthem!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- We were incredibly honored to spend the afternoon celebrating with these guests, heroes, and amazing students!
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- We are thankful to everyone who made our event possible, especially Rep. Rick Rehm, Mike Schmitz, and Danny Sharp!
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- Eli and his Grandad, Danny Sharp!
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- The Liberty Learning Foundation is grateful to Representative Rick Rehm, and his support of our mission!
