Today, Pike Liberal Arts 2nd and 3rd grade students filled their 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 Troy Bank and 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 >
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
- Birdy & Emory lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Headmaster Eric Burkett is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and his son WIll shares all about him!
- Noah tells everyone why Coach Gene Allen is honored as a Helping Hands Hero.
- Kim Gulledge is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Laura Elizabeth shares why she was chosen!
- Griffin tells everyone why Dan Smith is chosen as a Torch Team Hero.
- Peb Boothe is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Lauren shares with everyone all about her.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Pike Liberal Arts Helping Hands and Torch Team Heroes!