Today, 750 students filled the B.B Comer Memorial High School 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 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 Super Citizens lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Aja & Gavyn honored Bossy Twymon as their Helping Hands Hero.
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- John Stewart is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Aidyn.
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- Warren Wilder is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Addy & Abbygail.
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- Holden honored Allison Finn as his Helping Hands Hero.
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- Garrett honored his dad, Ken Harvey as his Helping Hands Hero.
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- Jackson honored Teresa Waites as his Helping Hands Hero.
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- Carolyn Yager is honored as a Helping Hands Hero by Ian.
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- Bubba Duncan is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Margaret.
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- Makayla Harris is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Ashley.
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- Max honored his dad, Coach Adam Fossett as his Torch Team Hero.
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- Jaycee & Jacorriyan honored Greg Clifton as their Torch Team Hero.
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- Coach Jon Thad Rodgers is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Kenleigh, Carter, Ty, & Lillie.
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- Officer Tracy Steele is honored as a Torch Team Hero by Nolan, Sawyer, Zay, Halley, & Madison.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students filled the auditorium with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- 2019-20 Talladega County Helping Hands & Torch Team Heroes, along with the students that honored them!
