Lauderdale County Schools Graduate, Celebrate, and Honor their Heroes!

Today, students from Brooks, Lexington, Rogers, & Lauderdale County Elementary Schools filled the Lauderdale County High School Gymnasium. 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 Lauderdale County Community Alliance. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.

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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 >

: Avery, Dalton, Zuri, Ryan, & Anna lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.

: Mrs. Holland’s class honors Anna Watkins as a Helping Hands Hero and Annslee shares why!

: Emery tells us why Mrs. Howard’s class honored Makenzie Brooks as a Helping Hands Hero.l

: Miles Edwards is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Ty and his friends in Mrs. Justice’s class

: Sawyer and his cousin Marina tells us all about why Mrs. Kerby’s class honored his dad Andrew Justice as a Helping Hands Hero.

: Mrs. Newton’s class honors Ashley Elkabetz as a Helping Hands Hero and Ezra shares all about why!

: Myles shares all about why his dad Ryan Robertson is honored as a Brooks Torch Team Hero.

: Ali Grace Wright is honored as a Brooks Torch Team Hero and her sister Kennedi tells us all about her.

: Brooks honors Jonathan Pettus as a Torch Team Hero and Mason shares all about him.

: Brooks SRO Officer Randy Butler is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Claire shares why!

: Dr. Zaria Murrell is honored as a Brooks Torch Team Hero and Totty shares all about why!

: Cash tells everyone why his grandfather George Thompson is honored as a Lauderdale County Elementary Torch Team Hero.

: Lauderdale County Elementary honors Diane Lynn and her granddaughter Temprince tells us all about her.

: Jordan shares why Lauderdale County Elementary honors Tom Solich as a Torch Team Hero. His wife, Christine accepts on his behalf.

: Conner shares all about why Connor Holden is chosen as a Lauderdale County Elementary Torch Team Hero.

: Lauderdale County Elementary honors Jennifer Burns as a Lauderdale County Elementary Torch Team Hero and her daughter Addison shares all about her.

: Wesley Birdwell is honored as a Lauderdale County Elementary Torch Team Hero and his son Weston shares all about him.

: Allie shares why her dad Dane Swanson is honored as a Lauderdale County Elementary Torch Team Hero.

: Toni Tate is honored as a Lauderdale County Elementary Torch Team Hero and her granddaughter Tate shares all about her.

: Mayen shares why Lexington honors the memory of her grandfather Dempsey White as a Torch Team Hero and his daughter Misty Robertson accepts in his memory.

: Lexington honors Cody Johns as a Torch Team Hero and his daughter Ali shares all about him.

: Ella shares all about why her grandmother Karen Thompson is honored as a Lexington Torch Team Hero.

: Eli, Matilyne, & Alexis tell us all about why their grandparents Sandra & Steve Curtis are honored as Rogers Torch Team Heroes

: Rogers posthumously honors Corporal Matthew Conley as a Torch Team Hero. His nephew Ryker shares all about him and his parents Debbie & Tommy Conley accept in his memory.