Today, second and third grade students filled the University Charter 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 an 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 Sumter 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 >
- Lotte and May lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
- Mckenzie took the stage to tell us about her class’s Helping Hands Hero, School Nurse Shannon Bryant!
- Karsyn’s class chose to honor their Office Manager Emily Broach as their Helping Hands Hero!
- Substitute teacher and community leader Stanley Tripplett is the Helping Hands Hero for Morgan’s class!
- Kinsley and her fellow 3rd Graders honored their much beloved SRO Roosevelt Agee as their Torch Team Hero.
- Pledging to be a Helping Hand!
- Taking their Helping Hands pledge!
- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
- Hands on hearts, these students pledged to be Super Citizens.
- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Leading the crowd in song!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- We were incredibly honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, and guests!























