Today, second and third grade students filled the W. O. Lance 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 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 Chambers 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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- Ansleigh and Kristein lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
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- Michelle introduced us to Officer Terry Wood, her class’s Helping Hands Hero!
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- Sergeant Dawkins accepted the Helping Hands award on Officer Wood’s behalf!
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- Jordan led his class in thanking their much-beloved assistant principal Reagan Gilbert!
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- Assistant principal Reagan Gilbert accepted her Super Citizen Award!
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- Taking their Helping Hands pledge!
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- 3rd grade students pledged to “help govern and care for [their] community.”
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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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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- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Students, heroes, and teachers alike singing along to our tour anthem!
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- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
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- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
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- We are thankful to our heroes, guests, and everyone who made our event possible, especially W. O. Lance Elementary School principal Dr. Sylvia Haslam!