Today, students from Stemley Road, Munford, & Lincoln Elementary Schools filled the BB Comer 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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- Super Citizens lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Lincoln 2nd graders in Ms. Gaskins chose Lacey Phillips as a Helping Hands Hero and Ryleigh & Asher tell us all about her.
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- Lincoln PE Coaches are honored as Helping Hands Heroes and Kirby Sherbet accepts for all of them. Cash & Lorelei tell us all about them.
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- Ms. Whiteside’s class at Lincoln chose Lonna James as a Helping Hands Hero and Jase tells us all about why.
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- Ms. Wallace’s class at Lincoln honor Kathryn Wallace as a Helping Hands Hero. Everly & Braelyn tells us all about her.
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- Lincoln SRO Officer Derek Turner and Officer Dax are honored as Helping Hands Heroes and Laken & Sawyer tell us all about them.
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- Ms. Cline’s class at Lincoln honor Tammy Smith as a Helping Hands Hero. Landyn & Leilani tell everyone why!
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- Reagan & Grant tell everyone why their friends in Ms. Hamm’s class at Lincoln honor Helen Stone as a Helping Hands Herol
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- Munford honored Amber Gallahair as a Helping Hands Hero. Aniya & Sarah tell us all about why!
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- King, Lena, & Brooks tell everyone why Stemley Road honored Elizabeth Fowlkes as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Daniel and his friend Jaylie tell everyone why Lincoln chose his grandfather Thomas Logan as a Torch Team Hero.
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- James Tincombe is honored as a Lincoln Torch Team Hero. His son Eli and his friend Aysson tell everyone all about why!
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- Joshua and his friend Knox tell everyone why Lincoln chose his mom Lindsey Wood as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Jeremy Tice is honored as a Lincoln Torch Team Hero and his daughter Railyn and her friend Bristol tell us all about him.
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- Alyssa and her friend Palyn tell everyone why her mom Amber Palmore is chosen as a Lincoln Torch Team Hero.
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- Emily Clifton is honored as a Munford Torch Team Hero. Emerson & Peyton tell everyone why!
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- Cayden & Belinda tell everyone why they chose Ben Sisco as a Munford Torch Team Hero.
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- Stemley Road honors Debbie Caldwell as a Torch Team Hero and Charley tells us all about her.
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- Singing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Talladega County Heroes!