Today, 475 students from West Elementary and Russellville Elementary Schools filled the Russellville High School Auditorium. 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 Franklin 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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- Charlee, Isabella, & Annie lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Ashlie White is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Ava
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- Melissa Kiel is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Raylee and her husband, Representative Jamie Kiel accepted on her behalf
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- Luke honored Talitha Fleming as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- School Board President, Kim Clonts is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Lillian
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- Grant honored Darlina Holcomb as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Sgt. Chris Watkins is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kennedy.
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- Theordore honored Irene Raney as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Alicia Stanford is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Triston
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- Dr. Wayne Stevens is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kate
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- Franklin honored Terry Stockton as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Russellville Police Department and school resource officers – Accepted by police chief Chris Hargett are honored as Torch Team Heroes by the 3rd graders and reading why they were chosen is Baylor
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- Taking their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- 3rd graders standing together to take their Super Citizens Pledge!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- Russellville City Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them. Also pictured: Superintendent Dr. Heath Grimes and Representative Jamie Kiel