Today, 400 students filled the Pinecrest 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 Talladega 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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- These 2nd graders are excited to celebrate!
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- 5th graders show off their graduation certificate!
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- Da’Corrain & Navaeh lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Linda Godfrey was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Jack.
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- Ty honored April Clifton as her Helping Hands hero.
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- Sanquenette Gamble was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Wyatt.
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- Madison honored Officer Mike Smith as
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- Jim Jones with Alabama Childhood Food Solutions was honored as a Torch Team Hero by Destiny.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- U.S.A.!
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- The students filled the gym with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- 2019-20 Sylacauga City Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, the students that honored them, Assistant Principal Cordley, and our Alfa family member Steven Blackmon!
