Today, Challenger, 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 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!
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- These students are excited to begin their Super Citizen Celebration!
- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
- Huntsville students are becoming Super Citizens!
- All smiles with her hero!
- This 2nd grade student is excited to honor heroes and get a Helping Hands graduation certificates!
- Huntsville students are getting ready to honor their heroes!
- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
- Excited to celebrate, honor heroes, and take their pledges!
- These Super Citizens lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Abigail introduced us to PTA President Michelle Salehi, Challenger’s Helping Hands Hero!
- Challenger volunteer, Andrea Still accepted her Helping Hands Award from Avianna!
- Grant tells us all about why his class chose Colleen Toth as a Challenger Helping Hands Hero!
- Karter and Bentley, tell everyone why they chose Coach Sushi as Challenger’s Helping Hands Hero!
- Leila & her friend Nora introduced us to her mom, PTA President Meg Lewallen – ASFL Helping Hands Hero!
- Jackson honors Challenger’s Library Aide Katie Runion as a Torch Team Hero and Mrs. May accepts on her behalf.
- Xyaya shares why Chaffee chose to honor their school’s Librarian Yuri Craig as their Torch Team Hero.
- Hollis told us all about why Mattie Young lets her light shine as a Monte Sano Elementary Torch Team Heroe!
- Monte Sano SRO Jamal Blake is a great example of what a Super Citizen is and that is why Cassius chose him as their Torch Team Hero! Mrs. Stevens accepts on his behalf.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- U.S.A.!
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Leading the crowd in song!
- We were honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, donors, and special guests.





























