Today, more than 125 students filled the Lupton Jr. High School 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 the Walker County Community Alliance. With its help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.
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- Madison, DJ, Kenzlee, and Mylee lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Presley honored Anthony Hubbard as Helping Hand Hero.
- Misty Walker was honored by her son Jacob as Torch Team Hero.
- Lana honored her uncle, Jeremy Hitt, as Torch Team Hero.
- Eddie Tingle, U.S. Army, was honored as Torch Team Hero by his grandson Carson.
- Rachel honored her aunt Sophia Walker, U.S. Army, as Torch Team Hero.
- These second-grade students take the Helping Hands Pledge.
- Proudly taking the Super Citizen Pledge.
- Super Citizens celebrate in song!
- Loud and proud for Liberty!
- Only “you” can keep the “U.” in the U.S.A.!
- Lonnie, Wes, Zoe, Savana, Hallee, Allister, Abbie and Wyatt lead their classmates in the tour anthem!
- Our Helping Hand and Torch Team Heroes and the students who honored them.
Sophia Walker was honored by students today for her contributions to the community. She reinforced a message the Super Citizen Program strives to instill in students. “I hope they remember that one small act can change a life,” she said. “A kind word or a little hand to help someone do something they aren’t able to do.”