Today, Ridgecrest & McDonnell 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 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 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 >
- Huntsville students are getting ready to honor their heroes!
- Excited to celebrate, honor heroes, and take their pledges!
- These students are excited to begin their Super Citizen Celebration!
- Huntsville students are becoming Super Citizens!
- Excited to celebrate!
- Huntsville students are getting ready to honor their heroes!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Daisy and Rainey tells us all about why McDonnell chose William Haynes as Helping Hands Hero!
- School Resource Officer Rogers Craft has shown Ridgecrest students what a true Hero looks like and Amari & Shurlin tell us why they chose him as their Helping Hands Hero!
- McDonnell Assistant Principal Nicole Thompson is chosen as a Torch Team Hero because of all she does in their school community! Kyle & McKinzie shares all about her!
- Ridgecrest Math teacher, Kerri Treece is a great example of what a Super Citizen is and that is why Emily & Lakiya chose her as their Torch Team Hero!
- Hands on hearts, these students pledged to be Super Citizens.
- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- U.S.A.!
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- Leading the crowd in song!
- We were honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, donors, and special guests.



















