Today, more than 300 students from Ozark City Schools 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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- Daylynn lead her classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Julyssa & Kayleigh honored Kate Benson as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Lucy & Presley honored Mrs. Alice Spencer as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Corporal Nate Henn was honored as a Torch Team Hero by his son Lucas and his friend Behati.
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- Avery and his friend Emilee honored his dad, Sergeant Jeremy Quillian as a Torch Team Hero.
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- School Nurse Melissa Holloway was hoored as a Torch Team Hero by Kaydence & Karmyn.
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- Harper honored his dad, Sergeant as his Torch Team Hero.
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- Carroll High School Senior, Deanna McDaniel was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Jacob and & Raven.
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- Azuraye & Ravion honored Katie Edwards as a Torch Team Hero.
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- 2nd graders take 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 wave their flags in song.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- U.S.A.!
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- Singing in celebration!
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- The students filled the gym with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- The students wave their flags in song.
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- We love Superintendent Reeivice Girtman!!
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- Ozark City Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them, Principals, Mayor Mark Blankenship & his Executive Assistant Heather Cohen, & Councilwoman Leah Harlow