Today, 125 students filled their gym. 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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- Emily & Grace lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- River tells everyone about her Helping Hands Hero
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- Dr. Mickey DiChiara is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by River and her classmates.
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- Russell tells everyone why he chose his Helping Hands Hero
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- Russell Johnson is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by his son James
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- Mady shares all the reasons the 3rd grade chose their Torch Team Hero
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- Lavenis Tompkins is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Mady
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 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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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Pike Liberal 2nd & 3rd graders sing in celebration!
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- Pike Liberal Arts Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, Mrs, Lankford and our friends from Troy Bank & Trust Dianna Lee and Jalen Tuck