Today, 300 students filled the Headland 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 Henry 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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- Showing off their certficate!
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- Excited to celebrate!
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- Riley & Owen lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Jayleigh honored her mom Jessica Motley as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Jennifer Hall was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by her daughter Lillian
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- Haddi Rae & Emma Caroline honored Gayle Irwin as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Lottie Benson was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Sarah Claire & Bryson
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- Bryce & his friend Klaire honored his mom Hope Laudicina as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Josh Blalock was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by his son Jace and his friend Evelyn Miller
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- Susie honored her great grandfather, “Big” Darwin Kelly as her Torch Team Hero. Joseph Masters, his grandson accepted in his absence.
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- Kinley honored her Uncle Justin Hughes as her Torch Team Hero.
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- Jennifer McCoy was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ava Jewel.
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- Macy Kate honored her grandfather Denny Steele.
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- Katie Hester honored her mom Karoline Hester as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Rhett honored his grandfather William Rhett Taylor posthumously as his Torch Team Hero. John Taylor accepted the award.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students wave their flags 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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- Headland Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes along with the students that honored them!
