Today, New Life Christian, Covenant Christian, Banks, Goshen, & Pike County Elementary 2nd and 3rd gradestudents filled the Troy University Campus Ballrooms. 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 Troy Bank & Trust. 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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- JaZelle, Jeovany, Audrey, & Nolan lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Kayde tells everyone all about why her dad Jeremy Knox is chosen as Pike County Elementary’s Helping Hands Hero!
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- Deputy Hope Carlisle is honored as Banks Helping Hands Hero and her son Christopher tells us all about her.
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- Banks Assistant Principal Tammy Calhoun is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Malik shares why!
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- Kaiden & Teigen tells us all about why their dad Daniel Hussey is honored as Goshen’s Helping Hands Hero.
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- Kaily and her friend Isha tell everyone why her mom Antonia Rodriguez is honored as New Life Christian’s Helping Hands Hero.
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- Covenant Christian honored Sydney Shook as a Helping Hands Hero and Claire & Elyza tells everyone all about her.
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- Mr. Chris Saffold is honored by Pike County Elementary as a Torch Team Hero and Gabriel & Kenslei share all about why!
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- Banks honored Henry Everett as a Torch Team Hero and Ashton tells us all about why!
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- Jan Rhodes is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Goshen and Kennedy and Roe share all about her!
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- Pastor James McClure is honored as a Torch Team Hero by New Life Christian and his daughter Charity tells everyone all about him!
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- Covenant Christian Administrator Jessey Coley is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Kay Leigh tells everyone all about her.
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- Pator Rick Holbert is honored as a Covenant Christian Torch Team Hero and Ellis tells everyone all about why!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- U.S.A.!
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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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- Pike County Community Helping Hands and Torch Team Heroes!
