Today, students from Geneva County Elementary, Samson Elementary, & Slocomb Elementary Schools filled the Geneva County High School Auditorium. 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 Geneva 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 their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Jase & Sloan tell us all about why Geneva County Elementary chose Lisa Goodnight as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Samson Principal Meme Stafford is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Reed shares all about why.
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- Jeremy Whitaker is chosen as a Slocomb Helping Hands Hero. Millie & Conner tell us all about him.
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- Rosalie and her friend Harlow tell everyone why her dad Matthew Cole is chosen as a Slocomb Helping Hands Hero.
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- Geneva County Elementary Secretary Latasha Darden is honored as a Torch Team Hero. Kylie, Grayson, & Alyssa tell us all about her.
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- Mia tells us all about why Samson chose her dad Brandon Houser as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Joseph McIntyre is chosen as a Samson Torch Team Hero and his son Shane tells us all about him.
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- Fire Captain Travis Fretts is honored as a Slocomb Torch Team Hero. His daughter Hadley and her friend Jayla tell everyone all about him.
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- Madelyn & Annalyn tell everyon all about why their mom Casie Harcus is chosen as a Slocomb Torch Team Hero.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Singing along to 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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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Geneva County Heroes!