Today, 350 students filled the Harry N Mixon Elementary 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 Dale 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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- Sophia & Carter lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Superintendent Reeivice Girtman is honored as Lisenby’s Helping Hands Hero and Lawrence & Lucas tell us all about why they choose him!
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- Prince honored Karissa Dasinger as a Torch Team Hero
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- Ed Howell is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Gracen & Aaron tell us all about why they chose him!
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- Isiah honors Jessica Moore with the Boys & Girls Club as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Barbara Nickerson is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Mason
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- Emery & John honor Earlena Marshall as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Sherri Flowers is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Lucy tells everyone why she was chosen.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Singing loud and proud in celebration!
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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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- Ozark City Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them. Also pictured: Lakeisha Russaw & Trent Dillard with Alabama Power, School Board Chair Herman Jackson and Board Member Larry Hicks, And City Council Member Winston Jackson.