Today, 150 students filled the Elkmont 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 Limestone 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 >
- 2nd graders are excited to celebrate!
- 3rd grade students show off their graduation certificate!
- Sabre, Brianna, & Brayden lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Kim Wales is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by the 2nd grade and Josie presented her with her Torch Pin!
- Chief Donnie Johns was honored as a Torch Team Hero by the 3rd grade and his grandaughter Harper presented him with is Statue Replica.
- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge!
- Standing together to take their Super Citizen Pledge!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- The students wave their flags in song.
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Elkmont Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them and Principal Haley James!