Today, over 100 students filled the Abbeville Christian Academy 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 Great Southern Wood Preserving, Inc. 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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- Max & Mason lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Linda Blalock is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Madi.
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- Ellie Jae honored Mr. Howard as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Sue Bristow is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Reid.
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- Holly and her friend dressed in an awesome Statue of Liberty costume honored Chief Eric Blankenship as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- Celebrating in song!
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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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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Thank you to our amazing sponsors!!
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- The students filled the gym with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Abbeville Christian Academy Headmaster Ates poses with their Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them.