Today, 400 student 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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- 2nd graders are excited to celebrate!
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- 5th graders show off their graduation certificate.
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- Chase, Rowan & CJ lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Mary Charles honored Angela Formby as her Helping Hands Hero.
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- Obie Norris was honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Naomi.
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- Landon and his friend honored Carol Sprayberry as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- Henley honored Jaclyn Rivers as her Torch Team Hero.
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- Officer Mike Smith was honored as a Torch Team Hero.
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- 2nd graders stand together to take their Helping Hands Pledge.
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- These 5th graders stand together to take their Super Citizens Pledge.
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- Sydney, Jamania, Blair, Xyzaria, Korld, Tessa, Brookelyn, & Connor lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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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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- Sylacauga City Schools Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes