Today,975 5th grade students from Madison City Schools filled the Bob Jones High School Auditorium. 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, students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world.
Students chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas . They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the heroes honored 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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- Nirvan, Adrain, Naia, Morgan, Ryleigh, Ambrosse, & James lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Madison City 5th Grade Honors Choir sings the National Anthem!
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- Columbia chose Charlie’s grandfather Stephen Colo as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Allyson & Andrew share why Nurse Abby Turner is honored as Heritage’s Torch Team Hero
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- Clay Hinchman is chosen as Madison’s Torch Team Hero and Isaac tells everyone all about him.
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- Evelyn tells everyone why her father Eliot Mustell is chosen as Mill Creek’s Torch Team Hero
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- Major William Franklin Carrigg III is chosen as Rainbow’s Torch Team Hero and his daughter Charlotte tells us all about him.
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- Midtown chose Lucas’ mom Jennifer Truong as their Torch Team Hero
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- Paul tells us why he chose his big brother Mark as a Torch Team Hero for Horizon.
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- Ivy surprises teacher Chelsea Young from Horizon as a Torch Team Hero.
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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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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- U.S.A.!
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- Madison City Schools Heroes!