Today, students from Crenshaw Christian, Luverne, Highland Home, & Brantley Elementary Schools filled the Luverne 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 Crenshaw 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 >
- Blake, Tylen, Luke, Omari, & Asher lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Luverne Principal Michael Kilpatrick is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and his son Mikey tells us all about him.
- Shelia Butler is honored as Branley’s Helping Hands Hero. Annaleigh & Scarlett tell us all about her.
- Highland Home SRO Officer Andy Sutley is honored as a Helping Hands Hero and Madeline & Lennox share all about why!
- Abbi shares why Crenshaw Christian chose her dad Kevin Bowen as a Helping Hands Hero.
- Samantha Bagwell is chosen as Luverne’s Torch Team Hero and Cannon tells us all about her.
- Jaxton & Raylen tell everyone why Brantley chose Matt Stidham as their Torch Team Hero.
- Toni Ingram is honored as Highland Home’s Torch Team Hero and Eli & Ava share all about why!
- Crenshaw Christian honored Shirley Goodwin as a Torch Team Hero and Lorali tells us all about her.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- U.S.A.!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Singing Loud and Proud!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- Singing Loud and Proud!
- Crenshaw Community Heroes!