Today, 325 2nd and 3rd grade students filled the Sweet Water 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 Marengo 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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- Quantez, Ira, Jerry, & Ashton lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Dorthea Carter is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Sa’Niyah.
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- Ira honored Patricia Parrish as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Nurse Lashay Nelson is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Landen and her son, Brock accepted on her behalf.
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- Linden City Mayor Gwendolyn Rogers is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Fajha.
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- Nurse Jackie Stephens is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Azariya.
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- Paula honored Coach Eberne Myrthil as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Kimberly Luker is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Emma..
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- Kelly Anthony is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Anastaizia.
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- Lauren honored Felicia Ravizee as a Torch Team Hero.
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- 2nd graders taking their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- These 3rd graders stand together to take their Super Citizen Pledge!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students filled the room 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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- U.S.A.!
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Marengo County & Linden City Helping Hands and Torch Team Heroes!