Today, 300 students from Mt. Carmel & Madison County Elementary filled the Madison County Elementary 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 Allaince. 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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- Excited to celebrate!
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- Showing off their graduation certificate!
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- Cash, Elizabeth, Kalel, & Adiel lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Kameryn & Nathan honored Frankie & Courtney Cameron as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Pam Berry is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Mia.
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- Marissa honored Sue Hereford as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Lydia & her friend Annabel honored her granddad, Larry Duffell as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Kaitlyn Lee is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Jade, Mary Ellis, & Jacob.
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- Assistant Principal Paul Davis is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Chloe.
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- Annsley honored Jan Brewer as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Eric Smith is honored as a Torch Team Hero by his daugther Alyssa.
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- Colton honored his neighbor Karen Snowden as his Torch Team Hero.
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- Amy George is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Clark.
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- Allie & Addison honored Frances Kirby as a Torch Team Hero. Emily smiled for a picture with them after their speech.
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- Brandon & his friend Ava honored his granddad, Ret. Col. William Lee as their Torch Team Hero.
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- 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- These students stand together to take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- These 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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- Mt. Carmel & Madison County Elementary Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes and the students that honored them!