Today, 800 students from DeKalb County Schools students filled the DeKalb County Schools Coliseum. 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 DeKalb 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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- Superintendent Wayne Lyles welcomes everyone to the Super Citizen Celebration!
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- Mitchell & Joshua lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Callie honors Dr. Rex Harrison as a Helping Hands Hero
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- Brenda Nash is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Will
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- Chloe tells why Ruhama 2nd grade honors Staci Harris as their Helping Hands Hero and her granddaughter, Arora accepts in her absence.
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- Aurora, Ruby, Joceyln, & Juan tell everyone why Crossville 2nd grade chose to honor the memory of their custodian, Bobby Rowell as their Helping Hands Hero. His mom Thresa, sister Tiffany, & brother Joel accepted in his memory.
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- Katelyn Smith is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Geraldine 2nd grade and Saylor & Kaylee tell us why!
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- Officer Josh Wigley is honored as Valley Head’s Torch Team Hero by Lexie & Luna.
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- Sage and his friend Peyton tell us why they chose Principal Lydia Peek as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Ernie Willingham is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his grandson Logan and his friends Jade & Hudson
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- Nurse Amber Smith is honored as Ruhama’s Torch Team Hero by Lily
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- Coach Riley Edwards and his Crossville Football Players are honored as Torch Team Heroes by Kimberly and the 5th graders of Crossville.
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- Cannon tell us why Geraldine 5th graders chose his Mawmaw Linda Colvin as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- Singing in celebration!
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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- We love having Super Citizens singing along to our tour anthem!
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- DeKalb County Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them along with Mary Crosby from the Central Office and Superintendent Wayne Lyles.