Today, Collinsville, Crossville Elementary, Crossville Middle, Ider, Ruhama, & Valley Head 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 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 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 DeKalb County students, teachers, and heroes to their Super Citizen Celebration!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Collinsville 2nd graders honor their school reading coach as a Helping Hands Hero and Armani shares all about her!
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- Luke & Mariana took the mic to to share all about why Crossville school nurse Kaylee Peek is honored as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Brett Smith is chosen as Ider’s Helping Hands Hero and his daughter Presley tells us all the reasons why!
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- Skylar & Rachel honor Ruhama’s Helping Hands Hero librarian Abbey Thomas
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- Valley Head custodian Scott Tates exemplifies what a true hero looks like! Kathrine & Javien tell us all about him!
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- Rachel, Annie, Johnna, & Will tell everyone all the reason Collinsville Principal Brooke Lambert is honored as a Torch Team Hero!
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- Crossville Middle retired custodian Phillip Pointer is honored by Jasmine, Ella, Genesie as a Torch Team Hero
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- Ava & Carter tell everyone all the reasons why Ider Coach Casey Gaddis is honored as their Torch Team Hero
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- Ruhama teacher Sonya Pope represents all the traits of a true hero, that is why Chloe and Elise honor her as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Callie’s mom Melissa Shoults is honored as Valley Heads’ Torch Team Hero!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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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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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- We were honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, donors, and special guests. Thank you to Tammy Gray with First Southern State Bank, Superintendent Wayne Lyles, Assistant Superintendent Anna Hairston, & Valley Head Mayor Karen Vest celebrating with us!