Today, Martin Luther King Jr, Academy For Science & Foreign Language, Roger B Chaffee, & Monte Sano Elementary School students filled The Royal at StoveHouse. 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 Madison 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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- Rosalee, Jordan, Nigel, Cristian, and Marion lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance
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- Ivy Jay, from MLK Jr. Elementary, honored her principal Mrs. Cheryl Askew as her Helping Hands hero!
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- Albert told us all about how Ms. Debra Alcime inspires his class to be true super citizens!
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- Ms. Ineke Allen, Instructional Aid at MLK Jr. Elementary school, is a true Helping Hands Hero! Armani told us all about it!
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- Kali’s class chose to honor their reading specialist, Ms. Mandy Parker, as their Helping Hands Hero!
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- Soulo and Elijah took the stage to tell us all about how Ms. Larrisha Irvin deserves to be ASFL’s hero!
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- Skylar, from Roger B. Chafee Elementary, honored his school’s day custodian, Mr. Eric Duffy.
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- Beloved Coach Bryant Crump received Monte Sano Elementary’s Torch Team award from Millie, who told us about how he shows them what a Super Citizen looks like!
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- These students placed their hands on their heart and promised to be a Super Citizen.
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- Students pledged to be “a good, responsible, and active American.”
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- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
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- Students pledged to “be responsible for what they say and do, in their country, community, family, and school.”
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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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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- We were incredibly honored to spend the morning celebrating with these Guests, Heroes, and amazing Speech Readers!