Today, Carbon Hill, Lupton Junior High, Oakman Middle, Sumiton Elementary, & Sumiton Middle School students filled the Rowland Hall Auditorium at Bevill State Community College. 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 Walker 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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- Superintendent Dr. Dennis Willingham welcomes Walker County students, teachers, and heroes to their Super Citizen Celebration!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Excited to celebrate, honor heroes, and take their pledges!
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- Thomas led his friends at Carbon HillElementary in thanking their chosen Helping Hands Hero Jill Burrough!
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- Kylan, ALex, & Alexander took the stage to tell us all about Lupton’s Helping Hands Hero, Amanda Shubert!
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- Bristol’s dad, Officer Taylor Goodwin has saved lives and helped his community, and that’s why she and her friend Lillian chose him as Sumiton’s Helping Hands Hero!
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- Brynley and her friends at Carbon Hill chose to honor Jennifer Tittle as their Torch Team Hero!
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- Carbon Hill Elementary students have learned about caring for their community from their custodian Lisa Clanton, and that’s why Hadley honors her as a Torch Team Hero!
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- Lupton Junior High librarian Brad Adkins received his Torch Team Hero Award from Spencer!
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- Jeremy Brown is great example of the traits that make you a true Torch Team Hero, and that’s why Jett, Brantlee, & Gage from Oakman Middle chose to honor him today!
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- Rylan and his friend Andrew shared why his dad, Oakman Principal Bart Larkhart, was honored as a Torch Team Hero!
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- Sumiton Middle students have learned about caring for their community from Jennifer Short, and that’s why Cali & Meiah honors her as their Torch Team Hero!
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- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
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- Excited to celebrate, honor heroes, and take their pledges!
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- Showing off their Helping Hands Graduation Certificate!
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- These 2nd grade students are excited to honor their heroes and get their Helping Hands graduation certificates!
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to 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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- SInging loud and proud!
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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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- U.S.A.!
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- 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 love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- We were honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, donors, and special guests. Thank you to Superintendent Dr. Dennis WIllingham for celebrating with us!