Today, 125 2nd and 5th grade students from Lupton Junior High School filled their 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 Walker 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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- These 5th graders are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
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- 2nd graders showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
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- David & Mia lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Averie tells everyone why the 5th grade chose their hero!
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- Mr. Donald Johnson is honored as a Torch Team Hero by the 5th grade and Averie presented him his Statue of Liberty Replica.
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- Isaac & Ally Grace tell everyone about their Hero.
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- Nurse Brandy Cooksey is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Isaac & Ally Grace.
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- Jasee & Parker share about their hero!
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- Officer Bell is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Principal Corey Shubert accepts his Liberty Torch Pin from Jasee & Parker in his absence.
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- These 5th graders take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- U.S.A.!
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Superintendent Dr. Dennis Willingham, Chris McCuller with the Walker County Farmers Federation are pictured with the Lupton Junior High School Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them!