Today, 425 students filled the Union Hill 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 Morgan 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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- Showing off their graduation certificate!
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- 2nd graders are excited to celebrate!
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- Diego, Stephen, Robert, Olivia, & Daniela, & Bristol lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Bonnie Ozbolt was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Sophie.
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- Peyton honored Michelle Johnson as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Brileigh & Collin honored Lee Ann Lawrence as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Jessica Barnes is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Jazmin & Carson.
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- Megan and her friends Phoenix & Marley honored her dad, Officer Michael Kitchens as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Loronda Sparkman is honored as a Torch Team & Helping Hands Hero by Robert & Aaron.
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- Officer Carrie Bowman is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Lilly Cate.
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- Reighlee honored Shannon Jackson 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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- Morgan County Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, Dr. Sherry Humphries & Wendy Collins from Central Office, and our Alfa family Rob Austin.
