Amahrie Florvil, a seventh-grader at Lawton Chiles Middle School, competed in the 400-meter dash finals at the prestigious Louie Bing Track & Field Invitational on Feb. 14 in Miami. She finished fifth in the race and third among seventh-graders. She also got to meet Olympic champion Twanisha “TeeTee” Terry, a Miami native and part of the U.S. team that won gold in the women’s 4x100-meter dash at the 2024 Paris...

 Barbara Goleman Senior High School Senior Christopher Prophete is a National Merit Scholar, the school announced. Prophete, 18, will receive $2,500 to be applied to tuition at a school that is in the National Merit College Program. The scholarship is awarded to students based on their Preliminary SAT score. The high school announced in the fall that Prophete was a finalist. He will receive his scholarship when he...

    The ZONTA Club of Miami Lakes awarded its 2026 Amelia Earhart Scholarships to two students at Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing.       Rahmina Rubaiat and Nikita Singhi each received $1,000.       The awards were in recognition of their academic excellence and commitment to advancing research in critical fields that impact public health and...

    The Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization presented Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board Member Roberto J. Alonso with its Safe Roads Champion Award.      The recognition is for leaders who “strengthen regional safety initiatives” and “advance context-sensitive road design.”       Alonso represents the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board on the planning...

    Gabriel Diaz of Miami Lakes was one of two students chosen to represent Florida in the 64th Annual United States Senate Youth Program in the nation’s Capitol.       Diaz, 18, was among 104 students from around the country who gathered for what the program calls an “intensive week-long study of the federal government and the people who lead it.”        Participants...