Today, 350 students from Indian Valley Elementary & Pinecrest Elementary School filled the Indian Valley 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 >
- France & Savannah lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Nurse Holly Howell is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kaydence
- Mace honors Paula Hurt as a Helping Hands Hero
- Coach Jay Brooks is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Kinley
- Jack and his 5th grade friends honored 4th grader Sam as a Torch Team Hero for her Entrapanural Service Project to help the local animal shelter
- Kate Barton is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Burke.
- Indian Valley 2nd graders take their Helping Hands Pledge
- 2nd graders taking the Helping Hands Pledge.
- 5th graders taking their Super Citizen Pledge
- Pinecrest 5th graders taking their Super Citizen Pledge
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- U.S.A.!
- Celebrating in song!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- We love seeing the students AND teachers excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Sylacauga City Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heros!