Today,2nd and 5th grade students from Haleyville Elementary filled their cafteria. 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 an 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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- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
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- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
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- Excited to celebrate, honor heroes, and take their pledges!
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- These students are excited to begin their Super Citizen Celebration!
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- Haleyville students are becoming Super Citizens!
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- Ready to celebrate!
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- These 2nd grade students are excited to honor their heroes and get their Hands on Liberty graduation certificates!
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- Elle Brooke & Cason lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Haleyville Police Officers have shown Haleyville students what true Heroes look like and Darleigh tell us why they chose them as their Helping Hands Heroes! Representing the Police Department: Chief Rodney Lewis, Officer Jerry Perkins, Officer Nathan Whitman, & School SRO Ron Harper!
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- Haleyville Fire Department shows Haleyville students what bravery and perseverance truly looks like, and that’s why Sawyer honored them as a their Helping Hands Heroes! Representing the firefighters, Firefighter Jeff Postell
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- Shanda Barnett, is chosen as a Torch Team Hero because of all she does in their school community! Miranda tells us all about her!
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- Lilliana and her friends chose Faye Cummings as their Torch Team Hero because she has shown the true meaning of what a hero looks like!
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- Pledging to be a Helping Hand!
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- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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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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- Leading the crowd in song!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- The students 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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- Singing loud and proud!
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- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
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- We were honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, donors, and special guests. Thank you to Brandy Perry & Leila Bass with Alfa and the WInston County Farmers Federation, Scott Knight with Alabama Power and the Chamber of Commerce, Kaitlin Uncopher with BankFirst, Principal Tammy Hatton, Assistant Principal Dr.E lyse Aldridge, and School Board Member Donna Jones for celebrating with us!