Today, more than 800 second and third grade students filled the Sparkman 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 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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- Aniyah, Kit, Leland, William, Yudiana, & Grayson lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Jordan & Nyah honored Principal Chris Gunnels as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Becky Wilkerson was honored as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Brett & Drake honored Nikki Bruder as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Principal Karen Mardis was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Layne.
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- Tanner & his friend Zoie honored his mom as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Olivia & Katelyn honored their PE teacher Stacy Balentine as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Bella & Vincent honored Firefighter Justin Novak as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Sarah honored her grandmother Joanne Thomas as her Torch Team Hero.
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- 2nd graders stand together to take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 3rd graders pledge to be Super Citizens!
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- These Super Citizens lead everyone in the tour anthem.
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- The students filled the Sparkman High School Gymnasium with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Madison County Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, Sparkman High School Principal Chris Shaw, along with our friend Rex Vaughn with Alabama Farmers Federation and one of our LLF Board Members Kathy Tew.