Today, Pinecrest and Indian Valley 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 >
- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
- They are excited to honor their heroes and get their graduation certificates!
- Corlis & Riley lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Indian Valley Assistant Principal Cindy Cleveland is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Beau tells us all about her.
- Bella tells everyone why she and her friends at Indian Valley chose her grandfather Mike Garris as a Helping Hands Herol.
- Jamie Ledin is honored as an Indian Valley Helping Hands Hero and Cannon tells us all about her!
- Pinecrest Secretary, Brittany Hardy is chosen as a Torch Team Hero and Jacob tells us all about her!
- Mollee tells us all about why Jodi Shaw is chosen as a Torch Team Hero and Principal Monte Barron accepts on her behalf.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Singing loud and proud!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Sylacauga City Schools Heroes!