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 an 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 Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- Colin and Ansley lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Mary Ellen took the mic to tell us all about her Helping Hands Hero, Mr. Austin Green — Pike Liberal Arts Counselor and Chapel Coordinator!
- Sgt. Chase Avant shows these students what bravery and perseverance truly looks like, and that’s why his son, Nash and his class at Pike Liberal Arts honored him as their Helping Hands Hero!
- Bryson and Ivey led their friends in thanking Coach Will Auston as their class’s Torch Team Hero!
- Taking their Helping Hands pledge!
- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- We were honored to spend the afternoon celebrating with our heroes, students, donors, and special guests. Thank you to Head of School Amy Allen and our friends Bob Mills, Meredith Welsh, Jerry Miller, and Steven Morelock from Troy Bank and Trust for celebrating with us!
- We are thankful to Steven Morelock from Troy Bank and Trust for his support!















