Students of Swift Consolidated and Foley Elementary Honor Heroes and become Heroes Themselves!

Today, 275 students from Swift Consolidated & Foley Elementary Schools filled the Foley Elementary School Gymnasium. 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 Baldwin County Community Alliance. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.

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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 >

: Reyn, Ava, Jack, & Parker lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.

: Swift Consolidated 2nd graders chose Toni Carver as a Helping Hands Hero and Greyson & Jacob tell everyone all about her!

: Ms. Warriner’s class chose Shannon Keenan as a Helping Hands Hero and Lucy shares why

: Barbara Lutz is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Tripp and his friends in Ms. Carr’s class

: Mayor Ralph Hellmich is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Sullivan’s class and Ayden & Ava Ruth share all about him!

: Ryleigh and her friends in Ms. Glaser’s class chose Candy Snowden as a Helping Hands Hero

: Lori Davis is chosen as a Helping Hands Hero by Prussia and her friends i Ms. Glaser’s class

: Kihara and her friends in Ms. Crocker’s class chose Debbie Sawyer as a Helping Hands Hero

: Margaret & Samantha tell everyone why they and their friends in Ms. Smith’s class chose Chloe Crosby & Ms. Rich as Helping Hands Heroes

: Mayor Hellmich is honored again as a Torch Team Hero by Elly and her friends in Ms McConnell’s class

: Mrs. Doffee’s class chose Sergeant Daniel Hudson as a Torch Team Hero and his son John and his friend Kinsey tell us all about him.

: Roderick Williams is chosen as a Torch Team Hero by Riley and her friends in Ms. Mounsey’s class

: Daylah and her friends in M.s Siler’s class chose her Uncle Joe Avery as a Torch Team Hero and his sons Joseph & Thomas joined him for his picture!