Today, more than 250 2nd and 5th grade students filled the Haleyville Elementary School Cafeteria. 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 Winston 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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- Mattie & Hagen lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Lydia sings the National Anthem!
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- Lanie Kate tells everyone why the 2nd grade chose the Haleyville Chamber of Commerce members as their Helping Hands Heroes and Mike Evans accepts on their behalf.
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- Hayes Henderson, “Rylie Kate” Iohnson, led Crumpton, & Kali Welborn honor Lisa Emerson as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Lisa gets a picture with her husband Jarron and her mom Ginger after she accepts her Statue of Liberty Replica
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- Lilly honors the memory of her father Aubrey Haines as a Torch Team Hero and her mom Rose Haynes accepts in his memory.
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- 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- Standing together to take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 5th graders stand together to take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- They stand together to take their Super Citizen Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- 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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- Singing in celebration!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Singing loud and proud!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Haleyville Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes!