Today, students from Parrish Elementary, Bankhead Middle, Cordova Middle, Cordova Elementary & Curry Elementary Schools filled the Bevill State Community College – Rowland Hall 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 Walker 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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- Emma, Zoe, Michael, Anderson, Callie, & Lily lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Cordova honored Dean Harbison as a Helping Hands Hero and Chesley tells us all about him.
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- Aria tells everyone why Cordova chose Missy Fowler as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Stephanie Shelton is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Brooke and her friends at Cordova.
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- Parrish SRO Officer Ron Colburn is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Scarlet tells us all about himl
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- Brileigh tells everyone why she and her friends at Curry honored her dad Officer Braden Miles as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Jane Mitchell is honored as a Bankhead Torch Team Hero and Charlee & Addison tell us all about her.
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- Jase & Colston tell everyone why Bankhead chose Ray Robbins as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Bankhead custodian Adrienne Terry is chosen as a Torch Team Hero and Kennedi & Emma share why!
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- Charli & Rayne tell everyone why Parrish SRO Officer Ron Colburn is honored as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Curry Middle Assistant Principal Jamie Harding is honored as a Torch Team Hero and Kinley tells us all about him.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Walker County Schools Heroes!