Today, Harvest, Legacy, Madison Cross Roads, & Endeavor Elementary School students filled the Sparkman 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 Madison 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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- Maddie, India, Eli, Thomas, and Isabella lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
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- Madison County students gathered to honor Super Citizens!
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- Harvest Elementary’s Helping Hands hero is computer teacher and bus driver, Mr. David Wright, and Cheyenne and Kane told us all about him!
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- Harvey and Jeremiah took the stage to tell us about Madison Cross Roads’s Helping Hands Hero, Ms. Brianna Mitchell!
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- Kinsley honored Legacy’s plant manager Mr. Robert Johnson as their class Helping Hands Hero!
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- Computer teacher Brittney Johnson was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Endeavor, and Kaycee and Eloise told us all about it!
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- Katie and Molly told us all about why their 5th grade class at Endeavor chose to honor Audrey Rogers as their Super Citizen!
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- Now it’s time for Madison County 2nd graders to take their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- Mr. Palmer himself led the students in their Helping Hands Pledge!
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- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
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- Madison County 5th graders took the Super Citizen pledge.
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- 5th grade students pledged to “be responsible for what they say and do, in their country, community, family, and school.”
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- Students pledged to be “a good, responsible, and active American.”
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in 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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- 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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- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- We were incredibly honored to spend the morning celebrating with these guests, heroes, and amazing students!
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- We are thankful to everyone who made our event possible, especially Senator Tom Butler, and Heath Jones from the Board of Education!
