Today, students from Harvest, Madison Cross Roads, Legacy, & Endeavor Elementary Schools filled the Sparkman 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 (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 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 >
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
- Jaslyn, Kelise, Grace, Sydney, & Khloe lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Haley, Ava, Skylar, Emily, & their friends at Harvest honor Jeana Garcia as a Helping Hands Hero.
- John Cannaday is honored as Madison Cross Roads Helping Hands Hero and Thomas tells us all about him!
- Sarge Howard & David Blackburn are honored as Helping Hands Heroes by James, Gabriel, Molly, & their friends at Endeavor.
- Legacy honors Michael Pettery as a Helping Hands Hero and Karis shares all about him.
- Endeavor honors Dana Cooper as a Torch Team Hero and Brooklyn & Stella tells everyone all about her.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- U.S.A.!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Madison County Schools Heroes!